Articles by Terry O’Leary (5 total)
An Australian battery Industry, or a dodgy AUKUS scam?
Australia is now at a key point in our Defence major project acquisitions planning. We are looking at a very dodgy AUKUS scam which will be the driver of our largest ever Defence expenditure. Brian Toohey in this publication recently pointed out some of the serious problems of buying obsolete 2nd hand nuclear submarines from the US who cannot meet their own needs and buying nonexistent British AUKUS nuclear submarines delivered over budget and sometime in the distant future.
Buying and building Korean AIP submarines: a bargain for Australia
Australia has several very viable options for not buying AUKUS nuclear submarines. All of them are much cheaper in the medium to short term and vastly cheaper and much less political in the long term.
What would you choose: a strategic battery industry, or AUKUS?
Australia has only a few months of fuel reserves and we are on the edge of a technological revolution in transport. So in a strategic sense anything we could do to secure our fuel reserves or find alternatives to petroleum based fuels would make us more secure.
A maritime country needs a maritime defence industry
There are very sound strategic reasons to continuously build and maintain heavily automated missile frigates and Air Independent Propulsion conventional submarines in Australia, as an alternative to spending $150B-$200B on unmaintainable AUKUS Nuclear Submarines.
What is the way ahead for the Australian Submarine Fleet?
Currently Australia has 6 Collins Class submarines in service all of which are approaching end of service life.