Delays likely to hit Britain’s AUKUS submarines

There are real questions about the concerns that the United States could not build submarines quickly enough to allow the United States to meet their commitments to Australia under Aukus, and real questions about the SSN-AUKUS nuclear submarines. They will be built by the United Kingdom, there and in Australia, but will they be present in something like the time zone promised within the Australian-UK-USA agreement?

Under AUKUS, from 2032 onwards, the US will be sold to Australia at least three and five seconds, while the Virginia -class submarine was sold, the UK will build the first to be delivered to the Royal Navy (RN) in 2038.

The current Virginia class construction process was tightened by the US to have enough ships for Australia, AUKUS defenders were greeted last commitment By the Starmer government, a fleet of 12 AUKUS submarines to change the intelligent class ships of a AUKUS ship from the late 2030s to change the smart class ships at the production rate. every 18 months. The UK is also the production of the new Dreadnought class ballistic missile submarines and is now the first ship of the class.

Timeline problems are due to the fact that the UAE, which built Dreadnoughts and designed the AUKUS subSs for the start of construction within ten years, is also a company that will build Australia’s submarines in Southern Australia.

The UAE was in the center of one of England The biggest corruption scandals so farTo include the Saudi regime in the 2000s and has a history Selling arms to human rights abusers. The UAE is also located at the center of the largest scandal in the defense supply in Australia in the last decades when the Ministry of Defense officials placed the UAE in the proposal process for ships with a great violation of supply practices.

Hunter class frigates are now accepted Even by defense hawks To be an expensive disaster, the government, which has been so bad to the excess budget, has reduced the number of ships purchased, and they are produced in the same shipyard where SSN-AUKUS boats will be built by the UAE with the expectation that they will begin to reach the best part of 2032. The answer of the UAE was to complain That problems related to defense supply are explained to the public.

The UAE also attracted attention when the general auditor has recently criticized the weak survival process to descend the helicopter Dock ships, which were late delivered and full of thousands of flaws by the UAE. The maintenance of the UAE’s ships was also criticized by the general auditor. Construction of frigates for the company’s royal navy It was also influenced by delays and cost excessesHe’s angry with British ministers.

However, the record of the UAE in submarine construction is the most relevant expectations of SSN-AUKUS boats to the RN or Royal Australian Navy, respectively until the end of the 2030s and 2040s.

The registration of the UAE’s intelligence class submarines is remarkable-not in a good way. When the ship class was almost completed, the average construction time for two subs was not 18 months by the Starmer government for SSN-AUKUS. However, 128 months-or 10-11 years-one. The fastest construction was HMS ambush, built for more than nine years.

Remember that the UAE is also building Dreadnought SUBS; This production process will proceed at full speed after the last intelligence class is sent. SSN-AUKUS comes behind Dreadnoughts.

But there is also a problem: Dreadnoughts will have the same nuclear pushing unit as AUKUS boats: PWR-3 reactor produced by Rolls-Royce. However For more than five yearsRolls-Royce had serious delays for both classes to produce reactors in the construction of the facility. In January, the annual Defense Report on major projects marked Rolls-Royce’s TBM project once again.red“The highest concern level. This project was also subjected to cost -out.

A political project to be built by a company with massive scandals was a long record of epic delays and production defects pushed by a reactor that has not yet been built. Is Australia greater than seeing a virginia class in 2032 in 2032?