Just don’t ask the UK for nuclear weapons lol.
They’re actually American-built!
The Virginia-class submarines will be primarily from a U.K. design and will have a U.S. weapons system onboard.
oh no
The virginia class will be US built but the aukus class will be as described. I don’t imagine we’ll be getting them any time soon if at all and the budget will almost certainly blow out. Australia honestly been taken for a ride with this deal.
I bet the front doesn’t even fall off … after considerable budget overruns the taxpayer is already on the hook for that is.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
SYDNEY (AP) — Australia is set to provide 4.6 billion Australian dollars ($3 billion) to British industry to support the construction of nuclear-powered submarines and ensure its new fleet arrives on time, the two countries said Friday.
United Kingdom Defense Minister Grant Shapps said the submarine program was expensive but necessary.
The 10-year deal announced at an annual ministers’ gathering will boost capacity at the Rolls-Royce factory in Derby, U.K., to build the nuclear reactors that will propel the submarines to be built by BAE Systems in Adelaide, Australia.
Australia Defense Minister Richard Marles said the agreement showed that the nuclear submarines program would be fulfilled and would create new production capability for the AUKUS partners, referring to the grouping of Australia, the U.K. and the United States.
“These are big foundational decisions which demonstrate that the pathway to Australia acquiring a nuclear-powered submarine capability under the banner of AUKUS is happening, and the result of that right here is going to be the most advanced manufacturing in the nation and one of the most advanced manufacturing production lines in the world,” Marles told reporters Friday at the Osborne shipyard in Adelaide.
“These steps to grow Australia’s submarine construction and maintenance capability are critical to the AUKUS partnership, expanding trilateral industrial capacity and building the collective resilience of AUKUS partners to produce and sustain conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarines for decades to come.”
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how about nuclear-powered cars? so I can drive 1 year on 1 tank… or 5 years on my motorcycle… too bad they are so focused on weapons.
There’s a nuclear test site in Georgia where the us government did preliminary tests for a nuclear powered airplane. It was bat shit insane. It seems the idea was not to shield the reactor, but to only shield the crew, and rely on distance and speed to not irradiate basically everything else.
To that end, they built a nuclear reactor that could be hoisted in and out of a hole in the ground so that it could be run unshielded above ground. They tested the effects on all sorts of materials, and a huge swath of surrounding woods, including all the creatures there, which promptly died.
It’s now a recreational area, and considered generally safe, except for a few small, fenced off areas.
So my point is, watch what you wish for.
A few years ago, Stephen Colbert did a segment on a pair of radioactive alligators at the SRS
I’ll have to check that one out.
They’ve tried it. It’s too dangerous to have that much nuclear material running around. Not only does it make sourcing for a dirty bomb very easy, but it’s also a question of disposal, and how to contain it in a collision.
maybe I could be the only one owning one… problem solved. I think the containment in case of collision probably could be solve 90% of the time…
Isn’t the nuclear solution to this an electric car charged from a grid based on nuclear power plants?
not with the current battery designs…
