Rudd slams ‘crazy’ US red tape slowing AUKUS

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“It takes six years from point of order to the point of delivery, and then for a separate ITAR project to takeover as to whether we can then be provided with the instruction manual for the use of said missiles. “That’s where it gets really crazy. “The current process, for example of flying US citizens out to Australia, to repair and maintain US technology, or to send it back to the US for repair and maintenance doesn’t work any more,” he said. Under the AUKUS deal agreed in 2021, the US plans to sell five nuclear powered-submarines to Australia at...