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Monday, April 07, 2008

Australia’s submarines - the next generation

The Labor government has announced that work needs to “begin” in defining the type of submarine that should be designed to replace the Collins class (I say “begin” as there has been consideration of this for years within Defence).

Australia is different from the vast majority of other nations operating submarines in that our geography is vast, and areas of operation (AO) of interest are many thousands of kilometres distant.

Hence the former Labor Defence Minister Kim Beazley suggesting that we need to double the number of submarines we have now. This presents some challenges for our force structure planners.

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