"Military Sub-plane" author: Big Ivan
On March 13, local time, US President Biden met with Australian Prime Minister Albanese and British Prime Minister Sunak at the San Diego Naval Base in the United States, and the meeting formally confirmed the introduction plan of Australian nuclear submarines under the AUKUS system:
The final introduction plan announced is probably similar to the rumored United States some time ago - Australia will import three second-hand Virginia-class attack nuclear submarines from the United States after 2030, and will also reserve the right to continue to introduce two.
After the completion of the project of these five nuclear submarines, it is expected that in 2040, the AUKUS alliance will introduce British technical solutions for the next stage of attack nuclear submarine design. The subsequent project will be led by the United Kingdom, and the related equipment will be added to the Australian Navy around 2050-2055. The program, which took more than 30 years, is estimated to cost $245 billion, and the U.S. Navy intends to invest billions of dollars in advance to help Australia build shore-based maintenance and shore port operation facilities for nuclear submarines, strengthen crew training and technical maintenance, and so on.
For this AUKUS nuclear submarine program led by the United States ... Big Ivan's perception was originally a very simple thing because the United States wanted to eat alone, which was extremely complicated: to say that this thing is simple, does this still need to be said? We mentioned before that the UK has nuclear submarine production capacity - its agility level is completed, the production line is empty, the workers are ready-made, and it can continue to build nuclear submarines for Australia, and then Australia will get this new nuclear submarine no later than 2035.
As a result, because the United States wants to insert a bar from it, it is stunned to stuff its own second-hand nuclear submarines to Australia, Britain's ready-made production capacity is not used, and Australia also has to pinch its nose and use second-hand goods from the United States first. Moreover, the reception time of this second-hand cargo is actually similar to that of the new boat, probably because the US military is resolutely unwilling to damage its combat readiness for the Australian Navy, and as a result, there is not even the advantage that the biggest advantage of the second-hand cargo can be handed over by the hot boat and used as soon as it is used. At this point, we have to say that Americans are really ugly.
Of course, the United States also left a big hole for the United Kingdom - my Virginia class will have an estimated service life of almost 30 years by 2035. Attack nuclear submarines can generally be used for 30 years and will reach the end of their life, so in 2040 they will have to be on top of the United Kingdom and design a new nuclear submarine for Australia (so you look at the Americans who do not do personnel at all, what kind of rags are stuffed for Australia) It seems that this matter can become British and American fertilizer by 2040?
In fact, first of all, on the issue of Australian nuclear submarines, it is clear that the United States has taken a lead. A large number of support systems, training systems, and technical standards for Australian nuclear submarines follow the words of the US military, and it is not so easy to change the British military. So Australia has to spend more money, what if it doesn't want to do two duplicate construction in five years? Excuse me, then please use our drip nuclear submarine.
Secondly, the problem with the British Royal Navy is that if you don't give it an order in 2030, its nuclear submarine production capacity may be over. What will be finished in 2030, you will let it pick up again in 2040, you might as well hang it with a rope... Moreover, with the credibility of the current foreign policy of the United States, the previous president negotiated what the next president said to turn over the cake. 2040 is still 17 years from now, what Biden signed, will the president of the United States in 2040 still recognize? These are all questions that the United States cannot answer, and they are also big holes dug for Britain.
Therefore, this time the dust of the AUKUS nuclear submarine has settled, and it seems that Britain, the United States and Australia are happy, and the United Kingdom and the United States share the fat. In fact, Australia got an iterative plan for equipment that looked like a mental disability, Britain took a picture cake back and hugged it, and only the United States ate alone in the world was achieved again.