A Japanese designed Australian built submarine would look a few meters longer (more: fuel, batteries and accommodation space) than the major features diagram (Courtesy Japanese sales team via News Corp Australia)
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S has made an interesting commentas follows:
“[S] analyzed cost of Soryu based on budget, and [S] concluded that Australia can build and maintain 10 submarines for 30 years (total cost 1,600B Yen) [= approximately A$20 Billion] under a proper management system.
Modification cost of 29SS to Aus 1 [per submarine for Australia] is 5 B Yen [A$62 million].
“[S] analyzed cost of Soryu based on budget, and [S] concluded that Australia can build and maintain 10 submarines for 30 years (total cost 1,600B Yen) [= approximately A$20 Billion] under a proper management system.
Modification cost of 29SS to Aus 1 [per submarine for Australia] is 5 B Yen [A$62 million].
Adoption cost of US combat system is not high.
Premium [build] cost in Australia is 10B Yen
30years- operation cost is double of building cost.
Life cycle cost for 30 years = {basic cost (65B) +US combat (0B)+ modification (5B)+ premium (10B)}x 2= 160B Yen [= approximately A$2 Billion per submarine]
[S] January 18, 2016 at 1:15 AM”
QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS
The figures above in square […] brackets are in Australian dollars where
1B = 1 Billion Yen = 12.4 million Australian dollars (A$) at January 18, 2016 exchange rates.
Building and maintaining 10 submarines for 30 years (at total cost 1,600B Yen) [approximately A$20 Billion] appears to be an attractive all up price.
1. However if:
Building cost is {basic cost (65B) +US combat (0B)+ modification (5B)+ premium (10B) = 80B Yen = aproximately A$992 million
and
"30 years operation cost is double of building cost" = 2 x A$992 million = A$1.984 Billion
Then wouldn't total for "Building and maintaining 10 submarines for 30 years" = A$992 million + A$1.984 Billion = A$2.976 Billion per submarine = approximately A$3 Billion per submarine?
Making Total for all 10 approximately A$30 Billion?
Actually A$30 Billion is much lower than a September 2015 estimate of $40 Billion ($14 Billion "Build" + $26 Billion "Maintain").
2. I assume that the Maintain costs would not include personnel costs for (Navy + Defence civilian) pay and updating Combat System costs?
Pete