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US subs buy best option: Dick Smith
PUBLISHED: 23 Feb 2012 00:33:58 | UPDATED: 23 Feb 2012 00:33:58PUBLISHED: 23 Feb 2012 PRINT EDITION: 23 Feb 2012Dick Smith
The US Ambassador’s offer to sell or lease Australia a nuclear submarine is the best news I have heard for a decade. Just how Australian Defence Ministers could ever consider submitting our submariners to the risks of century-old technology, where a submarine must surface every so often to charge batteries, is beyond belief.
Buying a proven US product is certainly the way to go. Qantas once built its own airline aircraft here. It doesn’t anymore – it buys a product from overseas that has been proven internationally. That is what we should be doing with our submarines.
Dick Smith Terrey Hills NSW
The Australian Financial Review
