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By: BRENDAN NICHOLSON
THE push for Australia to lease a small fleet of nuclear submarines from the US has won the support of a key defence lobby group.
Australia Defence Association executive director Neil James told The Australian that the existing fleet of six Collins-class submarines could be replaced with several state-of-the-art Virginia-class nuclear subs from the US.
Mr James said that in future Australia would inevitably have nuclear-powered submarines and getting them now would jump a generation.
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