12 RAN sailors and officers graduate from AUKUS n-power school

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A total of 12 Australians have graduated from the United States Navy Nuclear Power School including the first seven Royal Australian Navy (RAN) enlisted sailors who joined RAN officers also graduating. The 12 are the pioneers towards Australia acquiring and ultimately constructing a sovereign conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarine (SSN) fleet in the early 2030s, according…

First three RAN officers assigned to serve on Virginia N-submarines

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Another step in the process of Australia acquiring, and eventually building, nuclear powered submarines has been taken with the first three Royal Australian Navy officers assigned to US Virginia class submarines based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The officers, ​Lieutenant Commander James Heydon, Lieutenant Commander Adam Klyne and Lieutenant William Hall, were assigned after graduating…