USSC Foreign Policy and Defence Director Professor Peter Dean says in the short term, Australia is going to see a bit of a “hit to naval capability”.
“In the short term, what we’re going to see is a bit of a hit to naval capability,” he told Sky News Australia.
“This is just the lived reality of the fact that we have had over a decade of no changing decisions or capabilities that haven’t been able to be produced on time and on budget.”
This comes as South Australia has come out on top in the Navy’s surface fleet review.
With the work now secure, the focus turns to finding the workforce to get the ships on the water.
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We can't even send a ship to the Red Sea – to help keep open shipping lanes. Which means – everything costs more – for the extra steaming time – to go around Africa – to get to Europe. So you pay more for everything you buy.
What drone sub sea and airborne countermeasures will these platforms have when they come into service Yrs down the trackNo one has answered that has any one turned Thier minds in the defence establishment to the aforementioned, Ukraine has utilised this lethal deterrent capability against Russian Surface units with absolutely lethal affect,I don't exspect this post to be answered by anyone in Defence because they haven't got an answer
now South Australia can shut up and hopefully prove us right why they should be doing ship building opposed to other states….time will tell.
We have imbeciles in government…
Corrupt imbeciles
Less crew also means all the normal ship watchkeeping, hotel services and operational maintenance is performed by fewer people. Hope they will give them essential crew rest periods and greater alongside maintenance support.
If we can build ships, we can build cars.
More money sucked in to spending on our small navy, instead of bolstering our air capabilities. When will the ADF planners ever get it right. You’re already spending billions on new subs, how about bolstering something else? Or, will it be to late when the enemy fighters are to many for our small Air Force to handle? Think before you do this, we need more RAAF fighters eg F22s and F35s, as well as better OTHRS!!!!!
It’s all about unions and not about Defence capability! Labor is just trying to get more members into Unions.
😂 China's new hypersonic weapons can take these out without defense. My god we have idiots in running the country
The digital electronics and microchips will have to be imported because we don't make them here.
So it's a 'Tradie Navy' (engineers, technicians) supported by unmanned fire systems – autonomous hunt and kill AIs?
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of women that want to be equal.
So Albo has cancelled 6 ships which have been already been procured, the manufacturing facility already set up, and it's in production for new ships for which there is nothing. And they will be retiring lots of existing ships. How exactly does this help the Navy be better prepared.
I agree with keeping shipbuilding capability at home but there needs to be more accountability. After the debacle with the Hobart class rollout they should be sacking a lot of the management
Australia is a sinking ship.
china could just take Australia at anytime if boat people can come to australia so easy. thanks to AL-Bo-Bo the clown.
Weird how Sky News has had such a hard on about the Australian navy these last couple of months. Weird they never seemed to care when Uncle Ruperts mates were in charge….
Building these ships in Australia…well don't expect to see one before 2040 given the way that they work in this country…maybe it's the Chinese navy ships that Marles and Albo are talking about.
Who is this retard, Peter Dean ? He is either totally ignorant or deliberately disengenious !! The last decade of the LNP saw more Defence decisions and activity than the previous Labor government who made no decisions whatsoever !! We are in the position because of that period !! But it all began with Hawke/Keating and failures all the way through till the final end of Rudd !! Including LNP governements and decisions !!
What we will now face is the decimation of the Australian Army with the reduction of programs and capability, give it 10 years and the Army will be a shambles !!
Typical ALP. Defense is just a jobs program instead of securing the most lethal capability possible, as quickly as possible.
Surprise surprise Homer- South Australia is going to get most of the RAN work
How can no capability take a hit?
These communists have destined us to slavery or worse under PRC dictatorship.
Well border force is so short staffe😂d and under funded the are begging the airforce to do fly over checks…Australia is suffering under a Govt with terrible and dangerous policies…
Hunter Frigates are going from 9-6. OPV from 12-6. Incorrect information Sky News.
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Australia, Britain, Canada
Each nation builds;
12 Hunters
12 Type 83 AAW Destroyers
12 Astute
( 3 units direct purchase from UK, balance 18 Australian and Canadian units built in Australia)
Direct purchase 12 of the new Japanese OPV vessels. At $50 million per unit, all delivered in 36 months , you can not go wrong.
If you want to patrol large expanses of ocean, you do not use unmanned vehicles, you use patrol aircaft. Even my puppy knows that.
"Middle aged" (Oh, he means someone over 25yo, but under 35yo)Lol
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