But we knew that already.
IF Australia goes with a Japanese design for its Future Submarines it must build the vessels in SA to keep taxpayers dollars and jobs in this country.
Defence Teaming Centre chief executive officer Chris Burns was commenting about the head of the Royal Australian Navy's Future Submarine Program heading to Japan this month to look at its Soryu-class vessels.
"If we can take a Japanese design and adapt it to Australia's needs and then fabricate it in SA then that's investing in Australian jobs, Australian innovation and Australian security for the future," Mr Burns said.
Just a few challenges ahead, I suspect. Behaviour and all that.
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At least Abbott and Hockey have indicated that the future of DMO is in doubt.
Perhaps with proper Project Management and well proven Engineering Risk Assessment there may be hope.
I guess I'm confused. Why wouldn't a foreign design sub of this class not be a feasible design to 'defend Australian' nation and interests?
Australia is a huge country, economical wise, in the global scope of metrics.
So why not accept a potentially high-capability such as this and reliable sub concept for the future RAN?
What's the fear? I guess I don't get it.
Perhaps go with a German designed next-gen sub instead?
Either or, the future RAN should be thinking about the best capability they can buy, for the investment.
Domestic production (assuming no foreign content for simplicity) yields 40-60% of the costs as additional revenue to the state.
This means that domestic products are only about half as expensive, explaining why even superficially more expensive domestic production is so often favourable.
Australia is in no good position for offset trades, so domestic production makes sense.
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