That didn't take long

Japan's submarine friend Abbott gets kicked out of the PM's job. Then  all the sudden  Japan is trying to look like a German for French offer.

Japan is offering to build Australia an evolved version of its Soryu class boat. Mr Ishikawa said Japan was conferring a special status on Australia by sharing its highly classified submarine technology, something it was unlikely to do with any other country.

Japan, like Germany and France, is offering to build all of the new submarines in Australia if that is what Canberra wants. It would build a mock-up boat first to iron out flaws, the delegation announced this week.

It would do most of the building at a refurbished ASC shipyard in Adelaide but could also deliver some work to Melbourne, Newcastle or Perth, said Noboru Flores from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which would build the submarines along with Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation.

Even if option-J risks are still high compared to the German or French option. "Classified submarine technology". Is that the copied Swedish technology or the copied American technology? Or both? Or something else?


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