Australia Selects US Firm To Build Shipyard For 10,000-Ton AUKUS Nuclear Submarines

Australia Selects US Firm To Build Shipyard For 10,000-Ton AUKUS Nuclear Submarines

The project is part of a 20-year plan to turn Henderson into Australia’s main maintenance hub for nuclear-powered attack submarines.

UK targets fleet of up to 12 nuclear-powered attack submarines under AUKUS, with programme supporting 21,000 British job

SSN-AUKUS will be developed with the United States and Australia through the trilateral AUKUS partnership. The submarines will be deployed by both the UK and Australia, while helping the latter develop the industrial base required to support the capability. The new boats will be nuclear-powered but conventionally armed. They will remain separate from the Dreadnought-class ballistic missile submarines that will carry Britain’s independent nuclear…