This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

To Perth, Australia, Western Australia, Gregory Coppley,

editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs.

He is in Perth and the place called Fremantle, the Australian Naval Base, has a stone

frigate nearby where right now are significant changes to the geopolitical map of all of the Pacific, Indo-Pacific

underway.

It's called Aukas.

I read a headline from the Financial Review of Australia.

Aukkis Chief's torpedo submarine sales fears filling in

a top Pentagon commander has repudiated warnings that America will fail to deliver nuclear-powered

submarines under the Aukas Pact, but acknowledged ramping up production would be challenging

despite billions of

Australian taxpayer dollars flowing to the US industrial base.

Gregory, a very good day to you in Perth, it would appear that Aukis is continuing to be a success, but there are comments.

What right now can we say advances Aukis?

I understand there are changes underway. Good day to you.

Good day, John. It's actually an interesting time for AICUS because the

recently we saw the US and British Chiefs of Naval Staff joining

with the Australian Chief of Navy at HMAa St Sterling that Stone Frigate which is a base if you like a

stone frigate is a ship that doesn't sail and they were looking at a number of things there, including the first visit to HMAa

Sterling of a US Virginia class SSN and a nuclear-powered strike submarine, that the visit of the U.S.S. Hawaii was so that it could be overhauled.

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