Future Submarine Program Sub Brief

The best subs from countries near the South China Sea or Straits of Malacca would probably be those from Singapore. The newest diesel boats are first-rate, Type 218SGs. The older Vastergotland subs and some Sjoormen subs are still in service.

Phoa Yew Hui

Fantastic breakdown Aaron!

Thanks for this really comprehensive look at how this deal came to be. It seems like it might still be a good idea for the Australian navy to buy a few Japanese or German subs while they wait. What's another few billion, and they'd have some decent boats right away.

Generally, the shipyard that builds a submarine can also do the maintenance.

Aaron Amick

How do the facilities needed to construct a submarine fleet compare with the facilities for maintenance? Would a shipyard that can build 12 submarines in 30 years be oversized to maintain 12 submarines for a 50 year period?

The FOI request should be viraled in the public lol

Luqman Musa

Wow, crazy stuff. Thanks for the awesome brief! The collaboration to make this one is great! Thank you to all the sources.

This is really excellent brief, very informative of the internals of lobing/ contracting /negotiations /persons for principal weapon systems.

PG_tetras

Agreed, the world needs more people who actually care and know about the effects of problems and such, not just clueless talking heads on tv or in the government.

First chance I've had to watch this. Hard to fit a 90min vid into my schedule but worth it. Love how intense you get during the discussion of shenanigans.

Katfezza

This brief was brilliant! Incredibly intriguing!

1:16:34 FOIA in China. 🤣 Gotta laugh at that one. Next you're going to tell me about FOIA'ing the Kremlin.

Andrew MacDougall

Again Aaron, thank you for the honour of helping you with your presentation. It was such a joy to help do research for you and contribute something special that we patrons look forward to here. Your sub briefs are very well presented and have given us a wealth of knowledge. Okay enough simping lol, I'll let you get back to the next briefing skipper ;)

@Aaron Amick Who's on first? <- boy am I showing my age there 😁