
The Navy plans to conduct its first submarine maintenance work in Australia using a U.S. submarine tender next year, with dozens of Australian sailors aboard learning how to repair U.S. nuclear-powered submarines. Under Secretary of the Navy Erik Raven recently said the trilateral AUKUS partners of Australia, U.K. and the U.S. have already moved significantly toward helping Australia prepare to field a future nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) force in a short amount of time. In March, the three countries announced…