An artist’s impression of the German Type 216 submarine that TKMS hoped to build for the Royal Australian Navy.
An artist’s impression of the German Type 216 submarine that TKMS hoped to build for the Royal Australian Navy.
I’m curious if there was another reason for their rejection, but I don’t wish to pay for a subscription today.
France is raising a toast to celebrate their HUGE $150 Bilion Dollar contract. Australia now has both Japan and Germany mad at them. Both can be formidable as enemies when they decide to.
America wasn’t even a contender in the running.
Ze French hookers are ooo la la!
As perfidious as the French government has been over the last 50 years, would you trust a French company to build a critical defense component?
They got das boot?
The real reason could literally have been anything. But the Aussies deliberately added insult to injury by saying it was too noisy without showing any data. That’s a real slap in the face to Germany’s submarine engineering.
I wonder if it had to do with Germany’s pro-Dhimmi positions. When one powerful country starts to support voluntary Muslim invasion and rape of its women, other powerful countries find ways of pushing back.
Did the French submarine achieve its silence by ejecting the prop?
Dein Boot ist zu laut!
WAS! UMMAUGLICH!
- then even the ship's laundry washing machines caused problems. As originally bolted together - when used simultaneously - the vibrations were so powerful that the entire 40,000-ton ship shivered.
....who knew that the French washed......./snicker
The beer taps in the German sub were too noisy.