built for Australia's unique strategic requirements such as long open-ocean transits and difficult operating areas in shallow (Pg 42, Defence Review 2000). However last year it was found that the submarines did not perform at the levels required because of a range of contract shortfalls, design deficiencies, excessive noise signature and an inadequate data processing system (The Independent Prescott report, June 1999). This leaves the Australian continent with a single submarine that is old and ha
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