'The Low-Risk Way to Acquire the Capability Our geography requires long and challenging covert transits from Australia; a large submarine is required to achieve the range, provide time on task, carry a flexible mix of payloads and provide habitability for long missions often in tropical waters. The low risk path is to build on Australia's 21 years experience with Collins (7 of them as the design authority), existing US weapons, combat, communications, command and control systems and to acquire US-sourced precision land strike missiles.'