Australia to spend $1.1bn on Ghost Shark unmanned subs

Move comes on heels of China flexing military capabilities at massive parade

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Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, left, and Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy stand in front of a Ghost Shark sub at HMAS Kuttabul naval base in Sydney on Sept. 10. © AAP

SOPHIE MAK

SYDNEY -- Australia will invest over $1 billion on a fleet of domestically designed and built autonomous submarines known as Ghost Sharks, as the country faces "the most threatening strategic landscape since the end of the Second World War."

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