AUKUS, also styled as Aukus, is a trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, which have stated that its goals are to "promote a free and open Indo-Pa
US president Joe Biden, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak and Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese at the AUKUS meeting in San Diego, California, on 13 March 2023
One of the first three Royal Australian Navy officers to graduate from the US Navy's Nuclear Power School posing with Australian and American dignitaries in July 2023
A speaker during a December 2021 protest against the AUKUS agreement in Melbourne
The Attack-class submarine was a planned class of French-designed submarines for the Royal Australian Navy, expected to enter service in the early 2030s with construction extending until 2050. The pro
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…and had a "cold-war mentality". A direct result of the creation of the partnership was Australia's controversial cancellation of a French-Australian submarine contract worth €56 billion (A$90 billion). The Australian government only gave the French government a few hours' notice of this before the public announcement…
The Collins-class submarine HMAS Rankin. The SEA 1000 project was to replace the six Collins-class boats.
The Sōryū-class submarine Unryū in 2014. The Japanese submarines had been widely speculated as the forerunner for the replacement project.
A German designed Type 214 submarine at the HDW building yard in Kiel, 2008. An evolved Type 214 was one of the options under consideration for the replacement program.
The ASC shipyard in Osborne, South Australia. The original intention was to build the new submarines at this government-owned shipyard, even if ASC was not the successful tenderer.