US starts to build submarine presence on strategic Australian coast under AUKUS

The Manila Times

US starts to build submarine presence on strategic Australian coast under AUKUS  On a training exercise from its home port in Guam on Sunday, March 16, USS Minnesota is a forerunner to four Virginia class submarines that will be hosted at a Western Australian naval base from 2027, under the AUKUS partnership to transfer nuclear submarine capability to Australia.  Commanding officer Jeffrey Corneille says the Virginia class submarine is "the most advanced warship in the world."  "If someone wakes up and they say 'Is today the day?', we make sure that they say 'Maybe not'," he says, describing its deterrent role.  AUSTRALIAN POOL / REUTERS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe   Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net   Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion   Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein  #TheManilaTimes #worldnews  #australia  #submarine

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00:00Very skilled team and you can see kind of the way that this allows us to do it once

00:18we empty some of the torpedo tubes out, then we're able to get some space in here.

00:23This is the most advanced warship in the world, so what they gain is the capability to operate

00:29a nuclear-powered conventionally armed warship, so the things that this brings to our Navy

00:36and to every Navy that has nuclear-powered warships is significant and allows us to operate

00:44with essentially unlimited endurance, just limited by food, and be able to do all the

00:51things that our country asks us to do at any moment, just limited by that one thing of

00:57food.

00:58Opening tube two, stay clear.

01:15The role of the fast attack submarine, the submarine that I operate and I command, is

01:23so dynamic that everything changes on a dime, anything from weather, operations, things

01:30that are happening around the world, and we can answer at a moment's notice.

01:35As soon as my boss says go, we go, and that's something that you don't necessarily get from

01:40conventionally powered ships.

01:43Pause for thought, I think the best way to kind of explain it is, you know, if someone

01:47wakes up and they say, is today the day, we make sure that they say, maybe not.

01:53That's the pause.

01:54The pause is, maybe not, and being able to do that, you know, whenever we need to is

02:00what's important.

02:01That's not just important for the United States, it's important for all of our partners to

02:05work together to get to that, to that moment.

02:07First time?

02:08Well, welcome, very excited to have you all down here, exciting, pretty exciting job and

02:15we're very, very proud of it.

02:18I would say that the Virginia-class is the most capable, most stealthy vessel in the

02:22world, so I don't really need to compare it, you can't compare it.

02:28A lot of that comes from just the amazing design by the engineers who designed everything

02:34to make sense, and then having the outstanding crew with the training processes that are

02:40in place through the training pipelines to ensure that we do operate the ship to the

02:44maximum of its capability.

02:46We are in a time now where we have an opportunity to strengthen the alliance in the Indo-Pecan

02:52region and I think this is going to be a great opportunity and I'm looking forward to it.

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