September 27, 2021

US Navy Says 1st Aus Nuke Sub Will Take "Decades"

The US Navy's Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Mike Gilday, who is the professional head of the US Navy, was reported on September 24, 2021 as saying:

“This [Australian nuclear submarine program] is a very long-term effort that’ll be decades, I think, before a submarine goes in the water — it could be. 

I don’t see this as a short-term timeline. 

We have an 18-month exploratory period that’ll get after a lot of these questions and help Australia come to grips with exactly what they need to do to get in the path akin to the United States Navy,” 

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous9/28/2021 8:38 AM

    We may get fixated on SSN. The arms race goes on.

    South Korea successfully tested a solid rocket booster for space launches vehicles. My guess like the solid rocket Japan has for space launch.

    And South Korea successfully tested an SRBN with a ~6 tons warhead. They are working to increase it to ~8 tons. My guess, they can strap it at some time to the above solid rocket as a 2nd stage. Moving right along towards an SS-20 class capability, probably with tungsten MIRVs.

    And the US successfully tested in free flight a Mach 5 scramjet.
    KQN

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  2. Pete9/28/2021 6:26 PM

    Hi KQN

    Do you have a link or two to "South Korea successfully tested an SRBN [SRBM?] with a ~6 tons warhead"

    Presumably it will be/has been ground, not submarine, launched?

    Cheers

    Pete

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  3. Anonymous9/29/2021 8:19 AM

    Pete
    SRBM is ground launched.
    https://news.v.daum.net/v/20210928030056036
    KQN

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  4. Pete9/29/2021 3:52 PM

    Thanks KQN

    I think...

    For this very long, yet confusing, unverified, South Korean article https://news.v.daum.net/v/20210928030056036 ie:

    [Exclusive] "The military is in front of the world's largest '7-8 t warhead' ballistic missile development"
    Shin Shin-jin Sept 28 2021

    A government source "de facto nuclear weapons class" with a
    range of 300 km.. Test launch "WITHIN A FEW YEARS"

    "PLAN FOR DEPLOYMENT IN THE EARLY 2030s"

    Retranslation and conflation of an already happened alleged 6 ton Ballitic missile launch

    with a "de facto nuclear weapons class" 7-8 ton ballistic missile launch "WITHIN A FEW YEARS" and "PLAN FOR DEPLOYMENT IN THE EARLY 2030s"

    Would cause a North Korean nuclear response because NK could NOT assess whether such a monster SK warhead was nuclear, MIRVed and/or containing many decoys.

    Much more clarity and verification in a Shorter, English as a first language article is sorely needed.

    Regards

    Pete

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