Canada is Where Australia Was in 2016

On April 26, 2016 Australia was where Canada is now - but we blew it.

On that day some Australian politicians rushed (a pre-July 2nd, 2016 ELECTION) selection process to choose a French idea that wasn't even a detailed paper or computer model. But it curiously proposed a PumpJet as an odd piece of "bling".

See my "Naval Group (was DCNS) wins Australia's Future Submarine contest - Youtubes, Diagrams, Picture, Anthem" of April 26, 2016 at https://gentleseas.blogspot.com/2016/04/dcns-wins-australias-future-submarine.html

In September 2021 the French project was terminated by Australia in favour of a US-UK AUKUS promise by a geriatric Biden and a bloke called Boris (deeply unpopular and alienated). This was for an SSN unlikely to be delivered by Trump or his presidential successors to the RAN until 2046 - or maybe not at all.

Failing that the UK may design and build an SSN-AUKUS at Barrow, UK, in the mid 2050s. SSN construction (especially the reactor half) is out of Adelaide's league.

Even during the Collins selection process, from the 1970s, Australia avoided choosing TKMS, because TKMS is too large and efficient, hence not reliant on Australian politicisation of all things submarine.