The reason is actually China, they oppose the transfer of nuclear submarines | Virginia | Reason
According to a report on the Brisbane Times website on July 28th, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated that he still believes Australia will receive the United States' Virginia class nuclear submarine, despite almost half of the Republican senators opposing the plan. The reason is that providing nuclear submarines to Australia in competition with China would dangerously weaken the US Navy's nuclear submarine capabilities.
According to reports, 23 Republican senators, including US Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell, wrote to President Biden on the 27th Australian time, stating that they do not support plans to provide nuclear submarines to Australia unless the US doubles its domestic construction capacity.
▲ Data image: The US Navy's Virginia class nuclear submarine has left the factory
Despite increasing resistance from the Anglo American alliance in Washington, the US Ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, insisted that the nuclear submarine program was "completely risk-free.".
The report states that US senators wrote in their letter, "The current plan is to transfer three Virginia class attack nuclear submarines from the existing US Navy submarine fleet, but there is no clear plan to supplement these submarines."
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They said, "If left unchanged, this plan will weaken the strength of the US Navy fleet, which is unacceptable as China's military strength increases."
Republican lawmakers wrote, "The current Anglo American alliance plan is to transfer the existing Virginia class submarines of the US Navy to a partner country before meeting its own needs, which will further reduce the number of available nuclear submarines for the US. This is a risk we cannot take."