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Blitzo

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Just in case anyone posts this, note of course it is an April Fools, though frankly the described "prank" of a Collins derived SSN with first boat launch before 2050, is perhaps frighteningly on brand for RAN projects, which makes it so convincing at first glance.


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Lethe

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Mr Dutton said Australia's strategic outlook was becoming "more complex and challenging"

"There is potential of conflict in our area in a couple of years," he said.

If there is the potential for conflict "in a couple of years" then why do we have a frigate program that is only going to deliver new capability in the early 2030s and a submarine program that is only going to deliver new capability in the late 2030s? Why are the only ships currently in production for RAN the effectively unarmed Cape- and Arafura-class OPVs?
 

emblem21

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I don’t think these bastards have that long, two of these powers already are in a state of economic collapse and the last of these can easily either be cowled into submission on face the wrath of China (bring Russia will be overkill and unneeded). I hope Dutton is ready for the new world because his days will eventually be numbered, that shitty neo-con supporter
 

emblem21

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Doesn't matter. The goal is to evolve AUKUS into an Asia NATO. QUAD is not the right platform because it was not started as a defense platform and India is increasingly dragging the feet. If Japan is recruited, the next in line would be South Korea.
All this will go is narrow down the targets that China is eventually going to deal with once the USA is out of the way. All this time in regards to the crisis in Ukraine and not a single bit of time and money spent on fixing the economy, reducing inflation, rebuilding infrastructure and actually trying to help the increasing number of homeless people on the street. Imagine what is going to happen when everything in the USA falls apart. It will happen sooner or later and there is no way to fix what is going to permanently break, like a rubber band that has already been stretched to its limit and has no more room to go
 

Lethe

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Australian Foreign Affairs magazine recently did an issue focused on Taiwan and Hugh White's contribution was typically blunt and refreshing: Reality Check: Taiwan Cannot Be Defended.

Here is a recent video discussion with Hugh White about that article:

 
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