Australian Submarine Corporation was formed in 1985 in Adelaide to build the trouble plagued Collins class submarines. There was no shipyard in Adelaide, ASC was started from the ground up and had never built a ship before, let alone the most advanced conventional submarine design in the world. Needless to say it was a clusterfuck for 30 years, fucking up the Air Warfare Destroyers after they fucked up the Collins, with a recent Defence Minister saying he wouldn't trust them to build a canoe.
So what if ASC was never formed, a yard never built from scratch in Adelaide and the Collins class was built by one of Australia's existing naval ship builders? Would a more experienced shipbuilder have gotten it right? What about the AWDs, without ASC ruining them would they be on time and on budget?