"There's no more cost that gets added to the program outside that one design zone change, therefore when you consider that as a value for money, it avoids having to complete a brand-new design from ground up," Craig Lockhart of BAE Systems Australia said.
Babcock Australasia's Nick Hines said the companies envision an "AUKUS passport" to more easily track skills of the workforce for the subs, allowing the countries to trade workers and fill gaps quickly.
China wants "to create tense, uncomfortable situations in the hope that US and partner forces will vacate the space that every force has a right to be in," Pacific Fleet Commander Adm. Samuel Paparo said.
The retired lieutenant general, Peter Leahy, said he doesn't see "much of a future for defense industry here in Australia, so we've got to pick up our game. I don't think we can be taken seriously in the halls of Washington."
The new partnership aims to stand up a “multi-user rocket motor facility” in Australia that can meet needs for munitions and space launch.
After a successful "ePrototype," company is building a full-scale prototype of STRIX and "propulsion testing has taken place on a static rig at our Henderson shipyard in Western Australia," BAE Systems Australia said.
South Korea’s defense industry is exploding, and there are some fundamental reasons why it is meeting such success in the export market.
In this op-ed, Bryan Clark lays out potential topics of discussion at this year's Indo-Pacific Exposition in Sydney, Australia, such as the future of AUKUS.