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$3 billion deal with the UK gets Australia closer to having a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines (apnews.com)

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just don't ask the UK for nuclear weapons lol.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.