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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Kockums out of the loop for Australian sub contract

A26 submarineKockums, the Swedish shipping manufacturer Australia partnered with to build six billion-dollar Collins-class submarines in the 1990s, has been left out of the loop for the replacement contract.

The company has not been asked to provide information on its current boats despite being due to start work on the first of two A26 submarines for the Swedish navy before the end of 2012. That vessel is due to be commissioned in 2018, a record time by Collins-class standards.

The head of Australia's future submarine program, Rear-Admiral Rowan Moffitt, said the company had been dropped from a list of four European companies being considered for a ''military off-the-shelf'' option because it did not have a new design in service.

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