Secret price estimates handed to the Federal Government by the three international competitors vying for the construction tender have revealed a dramatically reduced cost.
The Weekend Australian today reports that Future Submarine bids from Germany, France and Japan each offered a lower cost of at least $5 billion for building an eight-submarine fleet.
This concept is totally lost on those who acquired the M-1 tank, Super Hornet, F-35, and so on.
As for this:
Members of an expert panel overseeing the tender process will each be paid between $275,000 and $339,000 for a maximum of 50 days’ work.
More than $1.1 million that will be paid to the four experts on top of the $100 million already paid for external advice.
There is no way this effort is worth that money. Back in the day, we had this talent inside the defence establishment. So, nice little rort if you can get it.
No word yet on how the entrenched defence bureaucracy is going to man 8-12 subs. On the flip-side, it appears that the work will take so many years to put such a small number of submarines in the water that we at any one time may only have 3-4 in service.
Tops.
The best thing we could do is to copy the Japanese continuous build to where a sub only lasts 17 or so years and then it is retired and replace by the next evolved design.
Not a 20 year sub. Not a 30 year sub.
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