Lalit Kapur - Volume VIII, Issue 13

DPG is deeply committed to the growth of India’s national power and purpose, the security and prosperity of the people of India and India’s contributions to the global public good. [...] In the first, which is intended to familiarise Australian personnel with SSN operations, Australian submariners will embed with the US Navy and the Royal Navy, while its civilian personnel will embed with the submarine industrial bases in UK and the US for training purposes. [...] To reinvigorate their submarine industrial base, the US and UK will invest in expanding their infrastructure, with Australia paying a proportionate part of the cost so as to accelerate delivery of the Virginia class and the AUKUS SSNs. [...] AUKUS also serves an Australian purpose in that it incentivises the US to remain engaged in the region and prevents isolationist trends from gaining ground; pulls the UK into the Indo-Pacific, and provides the highest levels of underwater technology. [...] Technologically, the present investment in the AUKUS SSN is based on their remaining the apex predators of the deep over the anticipated life of the boats.