Home-built sub plan questions

If you have trouble building surface ships (and other much more simple defence projects) maybe, building subs at home, isn't for you.

A defence discussion paper that will help set the direction for military spending in the years ahead has questioned whether Australia’s next fleet of submarines should be built at home.

Raising provocative questions that will likely spark fresh debate about the Abbott government’s commitment to local manufacturing, the paper issued by the Defence Department asks Australians to consider whether the higher cost of building submarines at home is justified by the work it would create for the local shipbuilding industry.

“There is significant debate emerging about the future submarine and whether it should be built in Australia. This debate must consider the cost, risk and schedule as well as the benefits of the different options,” the paper stated.

And...

...because Australia would give up some control over what is regarded as a country’s single most important military hardware asset.

Gee, had no problem doing that with aerospace. How is this different?

Labor and unions are likely to seize on the discussion paper as further ammunition in their assault on the government over its commitment to shipbuilding.

Pot calling kettle given their shitty oversight of this rent-seekers / jobs-program haven.




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