Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Australia’s Collins-class submarines, once plagued by design flaws, were upgraded into formidable diesel-electric boats. -In famous early 2000s wargames,...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Australia’s Collins-class submarines had a troubled beginning, initially plagued by design flaws that made them noisy and vulnerable. -However,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Australia’s jump to AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines is rooted in the Collins class’s limits: an aging, conventional fleet with a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Australia’s Collins-class submarine program, born from an ambitious desire for a regionally dominant undersea fleet, became a “national nightmare”...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Australian Collins-class submarine HMAS Dechaineux narrowly averted a catastrophic disaster in February 2003 when a seawater hose burst...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary on the Collins-Class: Australia’s Collins-class submarine program has been a decades-long “national security failure,” plagued by severe technical problems, cost...