The Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles stated that the planned plant “is key to the Australian Shipyard Industry”, and that the Australian government continues to increase the allocations for the defense on record levels to ensure the necessary capacities.
Aukus agreement, which is 2021. signed by Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, aims to provide Australia to the purchase of submarines to nuclear plant in the next decade, in order to oppose Chinese ambitions in the Indo-Pacific region, Reuters reports.
Australia invested 84 million US dollars last year to upgrade the plant in the Henderson shipyard, announcing that billions of dollars will be invested in the next 20 years to keep the shipyard for the center for maintaining the nuclear submarine fleet.
Within the Aukus program, Washington is planned to sell Australia a few Nuclear submarines class Virginia, while the United Kingdom and Australia will later build a new class submarine – aukus.
(Vijesti.ba)
