{"id":40482,"date":"2026-02-16T03:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40482"},"modified":"2026-02-16T03:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:04:25","slug":"australia-pledges-2-7b-for-nuclear-submarine-shipyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40482","title":{"rendered":"Australia pledges $2.7b for nuclear submarine shipyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Australia said on Sunday it would spend AUD3.9 billion to progress construction of a shipyard that will help deliver nuclear-powered submarines under the trilateral AUKUS defence pact with the US and Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Announced in 2021, AUKUS is Australia&#8217;s largest-ever defence investment and will see US-commanded Virginia-class submarines based in Australia from 2027, several Virginia submarines sold to Australia from around 2030, and Britain and Australia building a new class of AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described the AUD3.9 billion as a down payment to deliver the new shipyard in Osborne, a suburb of Adelaide in South Australia state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investing in the submarine construction yard at Osborne is critical to delivering Australia&#8217;s conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarines,&#8221; Albanese said in a statement. Official projections put the total cost of the build at AUD30b &#8220;over coming decades&#8221;, he said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia said on Sunday it would spend AUD3.9 billion to progress construction of a shipyard that will help deliver nuclear-powered submarines under the trilateral AUKUS defence pact with the US and Britain. Announced in 2021, AUKUS is Australia&#8217;s largest-ever defence investment and will see US-commanded Virginia-class submarines based in Australia from 2027, several Virginia submarines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}