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Australia’s future submarine: getting the facts right : Comments
By Syd Hickman, published 10/5/2016The French propulsion system is designed to feed off a nuclear reactor. Whether it can produce the claimed efficiency and quietness in the new conventional format can't be known until sea trials in the 2030s.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Strike_Missile
The French Barracuda submarines are armed with Block 2 Exocet and Storm Shadow missiles, but apparently the Australian variant will have an American weapons system, so something like the Rafael Popeye or Tomahawk might be used.