Max Blenkin
After more than a decade of controversy, shipbuilder ASC says it has finally solved outstanding problems with the navy's six Collins submarines.
Steve Ludlam, managing director of ASC, formerly the Australian Submarine Corporation, said he believed Collins' much publicised problems were now behind them.
"We are getting a much higher level of availability. We are getting good reliability at sea," he told AAP.
"They are very complex machines and we can't guarantee that everything will run perfectly all the time, but the principal areas of concern have now been solved."
Collins submarines had a range of problems from the outset, including excessive noise and an unreliable computerised combat system, prompting an extended and costly remediation program.
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