Who will trust Oz in the future. How can Oz send Kockums' IP to USA
without Kockums' approval? This is very not professional.
Anyway, NOT a single Collins class sub of Oz has been declared FOC.
Dunt tell me FOC or IOC are not welcome anymore.
Have u read USA recent news that JSF FOC is delayed 2 years more.
It is equal to u complete a army school course without a passing out parade.
Kockums' largest export success to date, to Australia, has resulted in significant copyright difficulties. In 1987, Kockums was granted a contract to supply the Australian Navy with six Collins-class vessels. Kockums formed the Australian Submarine Corporation (ASC) with the Australian government and companies to construct the submarine locally.
When Kockums later became part of HDW, the German company was interested in acquiring the ASC as well and nearly reached an agreement with Australian authorities. However, the government later reversed its position and instead acquired the shares it did not already own, with the intent of divesting itself from the company in the future.[12,13]
Given the close U.S.-Australian defense relationship and Australia's interest in acquiring U.S. technology, however, future HDW involvement is questionable due to U.S. security concerns. Any potential involvement by a U.S. company is being carefully followed by Kockums and HDW in turn, as they are concerned about the potential leakage of their own sensitive technologies.[14,15,16]These concerns are partially based on the discovery that the Australian government sent Kockums' propellers and designs to the United States for modification in 1998 and 1999. The shipments only came to light during Kockums' unsuccessful litigation attempt to prevent a third propeller from being sent to the United States in 2001.[17,18,19]
http://www.nti.org/db/submarines/sweden/export.html
cvc
no wonder there wasnt any new designs after collins sub....
well if they desined their subs right in the first place and didnt know how to fix the problems that showed up, we wouldnt have had to seek usa support in the redesigns