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Jura said:

how have you been, SamuraiBlue?
Future Submarines contract losers Japan, Germany, baffled by French company DCNS win

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Our offer does not propose nuclear propulsion for Australia at any time but the performance of the submarine we offer does inherit the technology of nuclear submarines,

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The Royal Australian Navy recently shared photos of an ‘Anzac taskforce’ exercising off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

RNZN’s frigate Te Kaha spent the past week working with an Australian Naval taskforce in preparation for exercise RIMPAC, the world’s largest maritime exercise.

The Anzac taskforce has consisted of HMNZS Te Kaha, HMAS Canberra, HMAS Success and HMAS Ballarat.

Anzac task force ships also conducted advanced Officer of the watch manoeuvres which involved all the ships manoeuvring in close proximity to one another and made for some impressive sights!

HMNZS Te Kaha also used this opportunity to test its Seasprite helicopter, recently bought from RAN, during a cross deck with HMAS Canberra.

The ships subsequently returned to Cairns, Australia to rest before heading to Hawaii.

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SamuraiBlue said:

I wonder if he even understands what he is saying, basically a nuclear powered sub and a conventional diesel powered sub has complete different energy envelopes so if you try to adopt various technology from a nuclear powered sub it would drain a diesel electric sub dry like the pump jet technology which I had questioned here and other forums coming to the same conclusion.
Pump jets are quiet when the screw is spinning at high speed but it has very little effect during low speed but requires more energy since the screw diameter would be smaller then conventional open screws. This is troublesome for a diesel electric powered sub since they are energy strapped forcing the sub to snorkel more often which completely compromise the stealth element completely defeating the reason in equipping a pump jet bell in the first place.

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SamuraiBlue said:

An article by a newspaper company located in SA?
Not really. They share the same interest as ASC.
The part I find most perplexing is DCNS chief executive Sean Costello's comment.



I wonder if he even understands what he is saying, basically a nuclear powered sub and a conventional diesel powered sub has complete different energy envelopes so if you try to adopt various technology from a nuclear powered sub it would drain a diesel electric sub dry like the pump jet technology which I had questioned here and other forums coming to the same conclusion.
Pump jets are quiet when the screw is spinning at high speed but it has very little effect during low speed but requires more energy since the screw diameter would be smaller then conventional open screws. This is troublesome for a diesel electric powered sub since they are energy strapped forcing the sub to snorkel more often which completely compromise the stealth element completely defeating the reason in equipping a pump jet bell in the first place.

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (

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) should have pushed harder to market its defense technology to win a $40 billion submarine sale to Australia, and is open to partnerships with U.S. defense companies, Chief Executive Shunichi Miyanaga said on Friday

In the submarine contest, "we were a little bit not aggressive in explaining our advantages because we felt it was kind of a defense secret," Miyanaga said, noting Japan continues to see the possibility of exporting defense systems.

"We will have to change our approach. In this kind of market we need to be more clear and persuasive," he said, adding: "We would like to pursue more opportunities with American partners."

France in April won the Australian submarine contract, a come-from-behind victory on one of the world's most lucrative defense deals, leaving Tokyo's dream of fast-tracking a revival of its arms export industry in disarray

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the Army's three regular force combat

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) will be restructured into multi-role formations with a similar structure;

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before this time the brigades were structured as mechanised, light infantry and motorised infantry formations respectively

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One armoured cavalry regiment (each equipped with

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light armoured vehicles, and

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armoured personnel carriers

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HMAS Adelaide has completed Exercise Sea Explorer off the North Queensland coast, continuing her integration into the Amphibious Ready Element.

Adelaide embarked an additional 800 personnel at the beginning of the exercise, including Townsville-based 2nd Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment and Royal Australian Air Force elements.

The ship conducted a range of training exercises to test her ability to support the embarked elements.

Commander of the Amphibious Task Group, Captain Brett Sonter, said Adelaide had undertaken a number of concurrent activities as part of Sea Explorer.

“As part of the exercise, the ship is being assessed against operational capability requirements,” Captain Sonter said.

The Amphibious Beach Team from Army’s 10 Force Support Battalion disembarked Adelaide via amphibious vehicles, descending onto Cowley Beach to prepare it for the impending wave of personnel and equipment.

Team Commander, Army Lieutenant Monica Merlo, said her team were the link between the ship and shore.

“We are responsible for coordinating the movement of all stores and vehicles from Adelaide to the beach, and then onto the next objective,” Lieutenant Merlo said.

“We do this by using two different types of small boats, as well as the LARCs, an amphibious vehicle, to transfer cargo to the shore. After we have set up, we expect around 500 military personnel and 37 vehicles across Cowley beach to conduct their training.”

Air Force personnel on Adelaide provided air traffic control to the embarked MRH-90 helicopters, which transported Ground Combat Element personnel from the ship to the beach.

Soldiers from 2nd Cavalry Regiment practiced driving light armored vehicles from Adelaide’s landing craft onto Cowley beach, and then reversing back on.

The final exercise in SEA EXPLORER was for Adelaide and her embarked forces to perform a non-combatant evacuation.

One hundred and sixty role players descended on Cowley beach for Exercise Cowley Assist in preparation for their rescue from a simulated disaster.

The Sea Series of exercises will culminate with Exercise Sea Raider later in 2016.

Sea Raider will evaluate if Adelaide and her sister ship, HMAS Canberra, are prepared as an integral part of Australia’s amphibious capability.

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Australian navy recruits were subjected to horrific abuse as a

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including being forced to rape each other and to undergo violent initiation rituals which left some teenage cadets unconscious, a royal commission into child sex abuse has heard.

Former navy personnel outlined decades of disturbing abuse and cover-ups, including practices such as “blackballing”, which involved their genitals being smeared with shoe polish, or a “royal flush”, which involved flushing people’s heads in a toilet after it had been used. Victims who complained were told to “suck it up … it will make a man of you".

The commission heard from a former navy member who said he was often “snatched” in the middle of the night and dragged to a sports oval, where he was subject to repeated sexual abuse and rape involving other recruits.

Graeme Frazer, a former recruit who joined the navy as a 16-year-old, told the commission he was left unconscious after being forced to run down a corridor called the "gauntlet" while being hit with sacks filled with irons, boots and other items.

He said he was told the abuse was a “rite of passage in the real navy,” adding that the commission was "a symbolic day that marks the end of 49 years of torment".

The commission heard that a 30-year-old instructor had a sexual relationship with Eleanore Tibble, a 15-year-old cadet, who was then threatened with a dishonourable discharge for “fraternisation”. She took her own life in 2000 at age 16.

The commission was launched in 2012 and has heard horrific accounts of abuse across the country at religious institutions, schools, children’s homes, sporting and community organisations and charities such as the Salvation Army.

Hearings this week began focusing on the Australian military and will investigate the existing cadets program, which has about 25,000 active members.

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Blackstone said:

How do you separate men from boys in the Australian Navy?

With a crowbar. Literally.

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