Sorry gf just a couple more Question.
Will Australia be paying the freight to turn this Nuke boat into a conventional ?
And will we get IP rights or be a partner in owning some IP rights for this new boat?
My mind boggles how we can spend 50 billion and just buy a sub with no IP rights as we take the risk just as much as the French do ,or am i wrong on this ?
DCNS have indicated a full ToT - so I would be hoping that contracting have learnt the lessons from dealing with Kockums
If I was the prime, I would be amortising/billing the development costs into the contract.
if I was the customer, I'd be ensuring that any tech developed to build le skippy can only be onsold to future french customers with our permission - and that the ToT means that we have ownership and sale/royalty rights
early days yet.
as the Commonwealth has a history of being screwed in contracts, I would hope that we have an experienced legal shop acting on our behalf and that they stay closely wedded to Attorneys General on protecting the Commonwealth.
$50bn is the through life contract cost.
One would hope that the French were prepared to cap the development and build costs like the Germans and Japanese.
but in real terms I have NFI as the contract management details will have not been determined yet.