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Congressmen Say Australia AUKUS Subs Likely Buy BWXT Reactors, Transition With Joint Deployment Of U.S. Sub

Congressmen Say Australia AUKUS Subs Likely Buy BWXT Reactors, Transition With Joint Deployment Of U.S. Sub
The Virginia-class attack submarine Montana (SSN-794) undergoing initial sea trials with shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries News Shipbuilding division near Norfolk, Va. (Photo: HII)

Two members of the House Armed Services Committee last week revealed how they think Australia will proceed with the AUKUS submarine partnership, including buying U.S.-built nuclear reactors and having a joint U.S.-Australian command of a Virginia-class attack submarine (SSN). Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.), ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces, noted Australia has no industrial capacity to build nuclear reactors. “That's why I believe what will happen with this is that the…

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