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Why did Australia cancel its order for the French submarines?


Australia's Next Submarine: Did We Get It Right? - Asialink

It was put on hold due to push back by senior Liberals warning of an electoral black eye in South Australia, which had been promised ...

Malcolm Turnbull: AUKUS Subs Deal Is an 'Own Goal' - Foreign Policy

France, whose contract to build diesel-electric submarines for Canberra was subsequently canceled, recalled its ambassadors from both Washington ...

Australian Submarine Force: A Checkered Past and an Uncertain ...

The Australia–United Kingdom–United States (AUKUS) trilateral has taken the world by surprise. Just recently, France and Australia had committed ...

Nuclear subs and a diplomatic blowup: The US-France clash ... - Vox

Shortly after Australia and France reached the agreement in 2016, the French shipbuilder, then called DCNS, revealed it had been hacked and ...

Europe's Selfish Reaction to Australia's Submarine Purchase By ...

11 Oct 21. Some EU member-states are furious at Australia's decision to abandon a submarine contract with France.

AUKUS - Wikipedia

The creation of the partnership spelled the end of a French–Australian submarine deal worth €56 billion (A$90 billion) that was controversially cancelled by ...

Why the AUKUS submarines matter and how they can be delivered

7. The Royal Australian Navy will not have adequate numbers of fully trained personnel to operate these much larger nuclear-powered submarines.

Naval Group vows to claw back millions for cancelled submarine deal

The French defence contractor at the heart of the diplomatic crisis over the new “Aukus” strategic pact for the Indo-Pacific has vowed to ...

No end to questions as Australia chooses nuclear submarines

First, the existing $90 billion Future Submarine contract with Naval Group – the largest military acquisition in Australian history – has been ...

Australia and Nuclear-Powered Submarines - U.S. Naval Institute

The deal meant canceling an order for 12 non-nuclear submarines that would have been built in collaboration with the French Naval Group. The French boats often ...

Australian documents showed French submarine project was at risk ...

SYDNEY - France shouldn't have been surprised that Australia cancelled a submarine contract, as major concerns about delays, cost overruns and ...

Could France Help Australia Fix its Nuclear-Sub Dilemma?

First, after conducting a formal review, his government could determine that conventional rather than nuclear submarines would better protect ...

AUKUS and Submarines: The Fallout for France - The Diplomat

In 2018, it was in Australia that French President Emmanuel Macron gave a decisive impetus to the French Indo-Pacific strategy in a famous ...

China, France React in Anger to US-UK-Australia Submarine Deal

Because of this deal, Australia nullified a $43 billion contract with France for a dozen of the world's largest conventional submarines and ...

One year on from AUKUS alliance, domino effect seen in Indo-Pacific

The French order, which was to be fulfilled by the Naval Group, had aimed to make its first delivery in around 2030. However, Canberra can ...

The French Sub Deal: A Mercedes With a Fiat Engine at a Rolls ...

Once more obeying the old cliché, the Western alliance is in disarray, this time over Australia's breaking its contract to buy French ...

Europe's Response to the U.S.-UK-Australia Submarine Deal

Paris is upset about the demise of its own submarine deal with Canberra, which was worth more than $60 billion; the cancellation of the contract ...

Nuclear white elephants: Australia's new submarine deal

The Australian Government is abandoning its French submarine program in favour of a partnership with the United States and the UK.

Strategic Choice: Australia's Nuclear-Powered Submarines

In September 2021, Australia scuttled a deal with a French shipbuilder to buy 12 diesel-electric attack submarines.

Why was Australia willing to pay $3.0 B/unit for the French diesel ...

Indeed, it's given as one of the reasons Australia was willing to back out— the other being that they would be getting the US's most advanced ...