$330m repair bill for Collins Class submarines to be fit for war

In what must rate as the world's most expensive vehicle-maintenance contract, taxpayers will stump up $330 million this year just to keep the navy's trouble-plagued Collins Class submarines fit for war.

The amount represents the most expensive single maintenance contract ever undertaken by Defence.

It is just behind the $476m it will spend on fuel and lubricants for Australia's thousands of military vehicles, aircraft and ships.

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