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

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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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