11-30-2023, 10:37 PM
The U.S. Navy will conduct its first submarine maintenance work in Australia next summer using the sub tender Emory S. Land, with 30 Australian sailors embarked to learn how to repair the Virginia class of submarine.
Raven said Australian officers, sailors and government civilians are already in the nuclear training pipeline with the U.S. Navy and are learning attack sub maintenance procedures in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and at Barrow-in-Furness, England.
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I will spare the reader an outline of the massive obstacles and issues facing Australia's nuclear-powered submarine ambitions. But this might interest anyone interested in present USN and possible future RAN platforms.
I note how maintenance on the Virginia class will be undertaken with or on submarine tenders. There probably isn't room for a dry dock at HMAS Stirling, and work on the RAN's Collins class submarines is done in Adelaide.
Raven said Australian officers, sailors and government civilians are already in the nuclear training pipeline with the U.S. Navy and are learning attack sub maintenance procedures in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and at Barrow-in-Furness, England.
Story
I will spare the reader an outline of the massive obstacles and issues facing Australia's nuclear-powered submarine ambitions. But this might interest anyone interested in present USN and possible future RAN platforms.
I note how maintenance on the Virginia class will be undertaken with or on submarine tenders. There probably isn't room for a dry dock at HMAS Stirling, and work on the RAN's Collins class submarines is done in Adelaide.
