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Strategic Insights 57 - Mind the gap: getting serious about submarines
Thursday, 19 April 2012
The Defence White Paper of 2009 promised to deliver Force 2030, which had as its centrepiece a force of twelve new highly capable long range submarines. That’s not going to happen. One way or another, Force 2030 will have a submarine fleet that is a compromise on the original vision. This paper, written by Andrew Davies and Mark Thomson, quantifies the submarine capability under different options.
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Riain deVoy Saturday, 21 April 2012 7:14 PM
Submarine life extension
If service life is determined by usage rates, and usage rates have been low then would not service life be extended? Could Japanese submarines be investigsted as off the shelf purchases as well as ...

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Robert Merkel Monday, 23 April 2012 12:31 PM
Astute-class or Barracuda-class?
Is there any reason for not mentioning the British Astute-class or even the French Barracuda-class nuclear-powered attack submarines in the report? Is it your view that they will be unavailable, o...

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Andrew Davies Monday, 23 April 2012 2:11 PM
Re: Submarine life extension
Thank you for your comment, Riain. While lower than planned usage rates might extend the life of some components, it will do nothing to help with system obsolescence. As well, submarines typically ...

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