Not delivering any Aukus nuclear submarines to Australia explored as option in US congressional report | Aukus
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/not-delivering-any-aukus-nuclear-submarines-to-australia-explored-as-option-in-us-congressional-report
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disappointing but not surprising
I reckon France might be up for building Aus a sub.
I’d be happy to take on this contract and build the subs. I’ll do it for cheaper and about the same likelihood of delivery.
Flashy headline but its just an options paper presenting pro’s and con’s.
Still, that cool $2 Billion we’ve given over for US Shipbuilding capacity increases better be refunded though.
Where already building out the infrastructure, hopefully we will be good, trump seems relatively onboard.
Who could have seen this coming? Trump seems like such a trustworthy guy!
If they’re not going to give them to us, the least they could do is lie and say they’ve given us a bunch of subs, you just can’t see them is all.
The guardian must be having a slow news day because the CRS has literally had this in its annual reports since 2022. Any deal this large and important is going to have alternatives explored in the case of disruptions. You would be stupid not to. You would also be stupid to get offended that the Americans would retain their submarines in the case of a war, because we would do the exact same thing.
Get ready to be left on seen if anything happens to Taiwan
Though that might happen anyway
What an absolute nothingburger.
A report designed to weigh the pros and cons weighs the pros and cons. Big thanks to the Guardian for all the fearmongering
>The report – authored by Ronald O’Rourke, an analyst for Naval Affairs in the Congressional Research Service for more than four decades – also makes the case for retaining the current Aukus arrangement.
Yeah, but if they did do something funny then the relationship would get real nasty, we would be looking for options for any future military purchases.
There’ll never be a moment where the US Navy says, “Yeah, we’ve got enough subs so give this one to Australia”. We’ve effectively given up our sub force.
Scomo’s terrible deals are the gifts that keep on giving long after he’s gone.