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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

This time it's the generators: Defence reveals latest battle with navy's underwater lemons

Collins class submarineMost of Australia's strife-ridden Collins class submarines were fitted with dud generators when they were built, it was revealed yesterday.

The Defence Department official responsible for rehabilitating the Collins class fleet, Kim Gillis, told a senate subcommittee the navy had discovered five of the six submarines were built with flawed Australian-made generators.

''The generators on HMAS Collins, the original ones, were manufactured in France; inspections of those indicate they're very solid and we're not expecting to have a failure of those,'' Mr Gillis said.

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