The challenge facing Australia is huge, and self-inflicted.
We have denied ourselves a nuclear industry,
and we are in the process of spending $90 billion on a conventionally-powered submarine fleet which is out of date before it is built,
when all around the neighbourhood nuclear-powered and -armed submarines are proliferating.
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we are investing in submarines that are obsolete and useless before the first one is built. We have embarked on this shameful course because our political leaders have lacked courage and honesty.
The minister who organised it was Christopher Pyne, a South Australian, who since has left parliament.It has happened before. Thirty years ago an ALP government built the Collins-class underwater lemons.
The American Virginia-class submarines have a sealed nuclear reactor. Both submarine and reactor are designed to have a life of thirty-four years.
We don’t know what the French attack class would be capable of, were it not being reworked into a lemon.
The French are Evil Cunts.
The enemy have us surrounded. Good! Now we know where to find the bastards! -various