AUKUS May Be Impacted by a Halt in US Attack Submarine Supply

Published on March 13, 2024

Australian defence officials say they are not concerned by the potential repercussions of the scaling down of production and the subsequent supply of U.S.-built Virginia-class submarines by the Biden administration. Under conditions of the AUKUS Defence Pact, Australia’s diesel submarine fleet will be upgraded by the U.S. selling up to five second-hand submarines by the early 2030s. AUKUS, signed in 2021, is a trilateral security arrangement that aims to increase security and intelligence gathering amid a growing Chinese military presence in the Indo-Pacific region. However, the supply of the submarines is under threat after the United States cut a Virginia-class submarine from the proposed 2025 defence budget, with the U.S. Navy planning on ordering just one new fast-attack nuclear from an original two, saving US$4 billion (AU$6 billion) but throwing a spanner in the works of Canberra’s plans for acquisition....

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