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Jeff Head

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Well they will certainly be around for the next decade plus. Planning for their replacement is underway though.

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Well, when they say:

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The Initial Operational Capability of the first Future Frigate is expected in the 2027 - 2030 timeframe.

That most probably means 2030 or later, and then they will build eight of them (right now). So I expect the last of the Anzacs to come real close to 2040 before she is retired...and that would be after 34 years of service since the last Anzac was commissioned in 2006, just ten years ago.

I hope they give the new Frigate decent anti-air coverage. I know they are going to be ASW-centric, but if anything we have learned (at a cost of about billion dollars to upgrading the Anzacs to suitable AAW capability). I hope they do not have to relearn that lesson and gt sufficient AAW capability out of the shute.
 

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HMAS Canberra returns to Fiji.

The Royal Fiji Military Forces band plays as HMAS Canberra approaches the Port of Suva, Fiji where the ship will spent three days to meet again with the people of Fiji and celebrate the bonds of friendship formed during the emergency response following Cyclone Winston.

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Ship's company and embarked forces line the flight deck of HMAS Canberra approaches the Port of Suva, Fiji where the ship will spent three days to meet again with the people of Fiji and celebrate the bonds of friendship formed during the emergency response following Cyclone Winston.

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HMAS Canberra approaches the Port of Suva, Fiji where the ship will spent three days to meet again with the people of Fiji and celebrate the bonds of friendship formed during the emergency response following Cyclone Winston.

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FORBIN

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RAAF modernization :

12 EA-18G in addition delivered 2017/18 and 72 F-35A between 2015/2023 replace 71 F-18A/B :
So for 2023 the more old fighters F/A-18F get only 13 years !

EA-18G
6th Sqn to Amberley do transition from F/A-18F on EA-18G in 2017/18, the 12 F/A-18F get rattached to 1st Sqn to Amberley in addition12 for a total of 24 the more big RAAF Sqn.

F-35A
A transition enough fast with up to 12 fighters delivered by year the 72 for 2023
For 4 Sqns, replace F-18A/B in 3 front line Sqns of about 15 fighters and one OCU right now get 23.

To Amberley
2nd Sqn OCU now 0, only rattached to US 61th FS 2 F-35A after 8 all move in Australia for 2020, F-35A arrive in Australia with 2nd Sqn for 2018 Sqn full with all about 20+ for 2020/21 max.
3th Sqn finish transition normaly end 2020
77th Sqn finish transition normaly end 2022

To Tyndall
75th Sqn finish transition normaly end 2023


Also 12 ordered, 3 others soon so 15 P-8A replace 19 AP-3C with presumably 4/5 MQ-4C.
2 new A-330 MRTT in more for a total of 7.
And 10 new C-27J.
 

SouthernSky

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12 of the the first 24 F/A-18F received were also pre wired for EA-18G conversion giving the RAAF the option of 24 EA-18G in the future.

I doubt this will be required though once the F-35A comes into service in numbers.
 
this thread, yes: France Plans Inquiry into Scorpene Submarine Design Leak
France will conduct an inquiry into a leak to Australian newspapers of “sensitive” technical information on the Scorpene attack submarine being built for India, an unauthorized release which risks upsetting prospective client Canberra, naval shipbuilder DCNS said Aug. 23.

DCNS was responding to The Australian newspaper, which has reported on a leak of 22,400 pages of company data on the six Scorpene boats under construction for the Indian Navy.

“DCNS has been made aware of articles published in the Australian press related to the leakage of sensitive data about (the) Indian Scorpene,” the company told Defense News.

“This serious matter is thoroughly investigated by the ... French national authorities for defense security,” DCNS said. “This investigation will determine the exact nature of the leaked documents, the potential damages to DCNS customers as well as the responsibilities for this leakage,” the company said.

An unauthorized disclosure of DCNS documents, stamped “Restricted Scorpene India” and dated 2011, comes at a delicate time for the company, which is in exclusive talks with Australia for a contract to design and build the Shortfin Barracuda A1 diesel-electric submarine.

Australia picked DCNS after a competitive evaluation which attracted competing bids from Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems and a Japanese team comprising Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, backed by Tokyo.

The leak of those sensitive documents could lead Australia and the US to question French reliability on maintaining security on “top-secret data entrusted to France,” The Australian reported.

Those company documents give information on the Scorpene’s underwater sensors, air/surface sensors, combat management system, torpedo launch system and specifications, communications and navigation systems, the paper reported. The documents include sonar arrays from electronics firm Thales, which holds 35 percent of DCNS, with the French state holding the remaining stock.

Australia is in negotiation with DCNS on a three-year design contract, a key element in a planned local build of a 12-strong fleet of the Shortfin Barracuda, a program estimated to be worth $A50 billion ($38.1 billion). There were expectations that design deal would be sealed by the end of this year of early in 2017.

The US sensitivity stems from Australia’s plan to arm the boats with American weapons and to pick a US company for combat system integration. DCNS would work with the US contractor, expected to be either Raytheon or Lockheed Martin.

An Australian submarine from DCNS would be a diesel-electric version of the nuclear-powered Suffren class attack submarine being built for the French Navy.

On the Scorpene, DCNS is to supply six of the attack boats to the Indian Navy, with local assembly through a technology transfer to the Indian partner, Mumbai-based Mazagon Docks Ltd. That program is running four years late.

Meanwhile, the Australian government said the leak would have no effect on its own Future Submarine program. Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne issued a statement on the matter.

“The Minister for Defence Industry has received advice from the Department of Defence that what is reported to have taken place in regards to the DCNS project in India has no bearing on the Australian Government’s Future Submarine Program,” Pyne said in the statement. “The Future Submarine Program operates under stringent security requirements that govern the manner in which all information and technical data is managed now and into the future.

“The same requirements apply to the protection of all sensitive information and technical data for the Collins class submarines, and have operated successfully for decades.”
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FORBIN

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this thread, yes:
Nah :p Indian and we have a SSK thread

Hacking it is all...or Indian not serious, impossible with Australian deal :cool:

A reliable site provide enough often infos from French Navy especialy official Mag.

Massive leak of secret documents on the combat capabilities of Indian Scorpene submarines

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Yesterday, DCNS has sought to reassure Australians: data leakage on Indian Scorpene submarines could not happen with Australian project. DCNS suggests, but without saying so clearly, that the leak might have occurred Indian side, rather than in France. "The uncontrolled dissemination of technical data is not possible with the Australian project," says DCNS. "Multiple, independent controls exist within DCNS to prevent unauthorized data access. All data is encrypted and recorded movement. In the case of India, where DCNS plan is used by a local company, DCNS is the supplier and not the controller technical data. "

"In the case of Australia, unlike India, DCNS is both the supplier and the local Technical Data Controller for the entire transmission chain and their use throughout the life of the submarines. "

However, sources told The Australian that the data on the Scorpene were written in France for India in 2011. They were swept that year by a former officer of the Navy, employed at the time by a sub DCNS-contractor.

The data would then have been handed over to a Southeast Asian company, perhaps to attend a trade agreement with the navy of a country in the region.

They were subsequently received from a third to a 2nd company in the region before being sent on a single CD by conventional mail to a company in Australia. It is not known how the data was shared in Asia or the intelligence agencies could have access.

The documents seen by The Australian also include confidential records or plans on DCNS French frigates sales projects in Chile and on the sale of PCBs in Russia. DCNS these projects have no relationship with India, which adds weight to the likelihood that the documents were obtained from DCNS in France. "

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Jeff Head

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A massive leak of information on DCNS subs for INdia could easily be viewed very negatively by Australia and their award to DCNS for the Australian subs.

Australia could not be blamed for wondering if such a "leak" might happen to them as well.

DCNS is going to have to do some serious explaining and work to ensure Australia (and India for that matter) that the leak did not come from them and had nothing to do with their operations.

India has already launched and commissioned one of their Kalvari class subs (hich is based pon the DCNS
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and the second is about to launch. Five more are at various stages of construction. So they are far along and could be seriously impacted by such information.

Australia on the other hand hjs not even started building yet, and if the situation was viewed as serious enough, Australia still has other options open to it.
 

asif iqbal

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French SSK deal and indian Rafale deal

These deals are worth billions and I mean billions

How France can secure these deals ??

$38 billion plus $12 billion over $50 billion !!

Imagine Brazil buys the carrier design from France !!
 

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India has already launched and commissioned one of their Kalvari class subs (hich is based pon the DCNS
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and the second is about to launch. Five more are at various stages of construction. So they are far along and could be seriously impacted by such information.

Australia on the other hand hjs not even started building yet, and if the situation was viewed as serious enough, Australia still has other options open to it.

Hmmm for Indians...

Not yet next month but right now no torpeoes !!! :rolleyes:
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