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AUKUS Defense Ministers Announce New U.K.-Australia Treaty And Shared P-8 Torpedoes

AUKUS Defense Ministers Announce New U.K.-Australia Treaty And Shared P-8 Torpedoes
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III meets with UK Secretary of State for Defence John Healey and Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles at the 3rd the AUKUS Defense Ministerial Meeting at the Old Royal Naval College, London, Sept. 26, 2024. (DoD photo by Chad J. McNeeley)

The defense ministers of the AUKUS countries on Thursday announced new advances in their agreement to share technologies, including negotiations on a new U.K.-Australian defense treaty about sharing nuclear-powered submarine (SSN) developments, progress in training Australian personnel and an agreement for the U.S. and U.K. to both qualify U.S. and U.K. torpedoes on their P-8A Poseidon aircraft. During a press conference following a trilateral AUKUS defense ministerial meeting in London, British Defense Secretary John Healey announced Australian Deputy Prime Minister…

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