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Lawmakers postpone decision on Virginia-class submarine money - Roll Call

The stopgap spending bill excludes nearly $2 billion for a major naval effort, punting a decision on the Virginia-class submarine program.

Roll Call

Australians deploy for nuclear sub training mission

Local workers will train in maintaining and operating nuclear-powered submarines after departing for the US to prepare for Australia getting its own.

AAP

US submarine news may have left Aukus backers with a sinking feeling – but Labor insists on making ‘plan A work’

The revelation that production is already running behind comes as China’s foreign minister heads to Canberra for talks in which the security pact is certain to be raised

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Will any of $4.5bn in Oz tax money be used to fund nuclear-armed subs in the US?

Australia has set aside billions of dollars to fund US submarine building. But the same shipyards and staff building the AUKUS subs are also building nuclear-armed boats.

Crikey

Cost, timing and US approval: The most crucial AUKUS ‘known unknowns’

How much will AUKUS cost, when will Australia get the subs, and how many will it get? Much is unknown about the submarine deal — here are some of the most crucial unanswered questions.

Crikey

‘Difficult and expensive’: US report raises Aukus doubts after Joe Biden reassures Anthony Albanese at White House

Congressional report says sale of three to five Virginia class submarines would cut the number available to the US navy fleet

The Guardian - AU

Aukus could weaken China deterrence, US congress research paper suggests

New report airs arguments for and against nuclear-powered submarine sale to Australia

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Australia may only build three of eight Aukus nuclear-powered submarines locally

Despite widespread reports that all eight submarines would be built in Australia under $368bn deal, up to five SSNs will be US Virginia class

The Guardian - AU

Australia hasn't figured out low-level nuclear waste storage yet – let alone high-level waste from submarines

Within ten years, Australia could be in possession of three American-made Virginia-class nuclear submarines under the AUKUS agreement with the United States and United Kingdom. The following decade, we plan to build five next-generation nuclear submarines.

The Conversation

Nuclear submarines needed due to China's military expansion, AUKUS task force head says

The head of Australia's AUKUS task force says China's military expansion justifies the purchase of new nuclear-powered submarines, while reassuring Australians the nuclear reactors on board the vessels will be safe.

ABC News

What is AUKUS and when are we getting nuclear submarines?

The final details of Australia's first nuclear submarine fleet have been unveiled — along with the price tag. Here's the plan and when we might see them in the water.

ABC News

Australia to receive 'highest quality' submarines, not 'clunkers', US congressman Joe Courtney says

Joe Courtney, a member of US Congress' Armed Services Committee, declares Australia will receive the highest-quality Virginia-class nuclear submarines as part of the countries' AUKUS plan.

ABC News

Maryland couple plead guilty in submarine secrets sale case

A U.S. Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have entered new guilty pleas in a case in West Virginia involving the sale of secrets about nuclear submarines

The Independent UK

Andhra Pradesh: Farmers urge Centre to regulate Virginia tobacco scrap

Sale of these products should be allowed only on auction platforms, they say

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Wife of ex-Navy nuclear engineer pleads guilty in conspiracy to sell submarine data

BALTIMORE — The Annapolis, Maryland, woman accused of serving as a lookout for her husband, a Navy nuclear engineer, as he engaged in a scheme to sell military secrets to foreign governments pleaded guilty Friday to a conspiracy charge in a West Virginia federal court.

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