No compensation for faulty Growler aircraft that burst into flames as submarine price adds billions
The Department of Defence is reviewing all major foreign military contracts after the United States declared it will not pay any compensation for a new $125 million warplane destroyed by fire due to a faulty engine.
The expensive setback was revealed during a parliamentary hearing where officials also disclosed that the cost of Australia's Future Submarine program could top an estimated $225 billion by 2080.
In January 2018, an American-made Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Growler skidded across a runway and burst into flames following a dramatic engine malfunction during an attempted take-off at a US military base in Nevada.
The ABC last year revealed a RAAF investigation had confirmed a high-pressure compressor in the Growler's engine had broken into three major pieces, with one segment piercing through the bottom of the jet and taking a chunk out of the runway.
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