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Labor working for their masters in China for a bottle of wine upgrade to the Christmas case!

The class has only one use that of drone anti mine warfare ship! The cranes are ideal for shipping the drones & the stern ramp ideal for naval clearance divers! Fitting the 30mm from the minesweepers could also be an option!

Uninformed commentary. Missile defence is a priority for this government. Project Air 6500 phase one is under way. Its focus is the joint air battle management system that will coordinate multiple weapons systems to shoot down missiles. Once this is in place appropriate weapons systems can be purchased to link in to it. Please keep putting out content as I enjoy content about our defence force, just do some research first.

Ok, so as has been pointed out in the comment section below, I made an error with my video. I had called the program which was cancelled the Global Hawk. In actuality the program's name is the Sky Guardian, which cost 1.3 billion dollars and was anticipated to deliver an initial 5 armed assets, before its cancellation at the hands of the Morrison government.

The global hawk and predator/reaper are completely separate airframes in completely separate weight classes. Bit more research needed buddy.

At least the Labor govt. is emphasising "self reliance" as far as budgetary limitations,allow

Why get a new ship with no weapon? Just like the 2 carrier no aircraft 2 new supply ships both out of action and new patrol boat no weapon Australian Navy in a very weak state worst than pre WW2.

As they say "Fitted for but not with " typical.

Trust your leaders, mediocrity rules ok.

Good to hear about the issues. Footage of the relevant vessels and weaponry might enhance your video next time.

Interesting topics, funny how Labour worry about miss information yet them, media n opposition all carry on about submarine build. If people been watching defence news from Naval News n ADM, US was going start extra production line to build more submarines to meet targets n allow to older sub to commissioned into RAN service. Also these submarines will not need refilling of nuclear as there enough until decommissioned. All this been detailed for last couple of years. Just last week i noticed online about NH90, few people with half truths yet issue been well documented especially in defence magazines about history, other defence helicopters like Seasprite failure, i think Australians have given enough information on details, Labour needs come out n explain why NH90 was scrap especially buried like F111, future plan, lessons learnt.

The power plant on these appear to pretty close to the USS Constellation Class ships but with the US ship has a GE Turbine with RR Diesels. and the AUS ship has RR Turbines and MTU Diesels. Timelines for both seem pretty long AUS 2034? really? I guess most of their equipment needs to be imported, not sure what kind of industrial engines are produced down under.

Does anyone feel that the current Government will make the proper decisions about these ship, let alone any other defence caacity? NO. They are led around by their own pathetic ideas. 12 Sept 24

Always enjoy your dialogue and agree with most of your opinions

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Hindsight is awesome but reality the Navy is behind because poor decisions over 50 year period, yes it takes longer to get warships into water, let lone other defence equipment. Stopping of building warships, bad defence budgets, political interference. If i was in charge i would have ordered not just one but 3 more batch II Hobarts destroyers extra VLS, lengthen hellopad like Hunter class. This give time to build n into service with Hunter class these frigates were right choice in what ADF was needed, these should been stretched more VLS n call future destroyers. RAN replacement frigates could have been OPV, corvette, DDL like basic AB destroyers or Hobart no hanger but large rear deck for cubes/containerised mission sets. These frigates would be escorts for the fleet n not full sub hunters.

Arafura should never been chosen as poor weapon layout, no hanger, flight deck can't support Seahawk. Years ago ADF was offering Malaysia OPV, 57mm gun, 8 cell VLS, hanger for Lynx or Seasprite weighing 2000t. This how s#$t kick off as ADF or RAN order 11 Seasprite helicopters these were go on new ANZAC frigates. Well Malaysia went with another offer, OPV was drop n instead dropping Seasprite n getting more Seahawks as RAN had already have Seahawks in service on Adelaide frigates it decided waste over $1 BILLION before dropping Seasprite. Years later instead of going with old design nar Arafura was going be multi purpose OVP, RAN couldn't explain why they drop 40mm gun.

Scrap it and sue Lursen

Cell count is the joke, along with the price and timeline.

How can this be? Can we ever get it right???? Always on the CHEAP!

Shouldnt build ships in Australia if the usuual failed companies and government are involved.

The ship is proven and a great designe, issue is Oz goverand Navy did their usual same with the Anzacs, they got involved and stuffed it up and u derarmed it. Why not just take the proven design, build and arm it how it was designed to be ?

101 subs and climbing congrats, chief 🎉

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So, in short, from the initial specification, someone from the Royal Australian Navy decided to remove/modify the ship and in the end they declared it to be not seaworthy. At the same time, a Darussalam-class offshore patrol vessel has been in active service for more than 13 years.

Great information young fella. Thanks

A welcome popup, hope your feeling better.

The whole ADF is a joke.

In an uncertain World, there is no such thing as certainty

Hey the Arafura is a patrol boat the cape class are crap to short range Australia’s coast line is to big for crap like the cape class and Armidale class . The cape class are stop gaps nothing more Australia has needed a large long range ocean going patrol vessels for the last forty years if there is seaworthy issues with the Arafura class then the builder need to be questioned, Brunei has operated these vessels without major issues people want these vessels to be something they are not these ships are coast guard ships if you want warships buy warships.

So the ship is crap, because clueless public servants cut the guts out of it?

It is far superior to the Type 26 with extra VLS and AEGIS combat system and a far better radar system than the British or Canadian ships

I think we should be offering surplus equipment to NZ, Fiji, and other close allies in our own backyard

counter argument, China :D with China in the indo pacific becoming more and more aggressive, we see more and more need to hold older machines in reserve, the m1a1 aim, aslav, and m113s would be beneficial to hold onto incase of an all out war, the Hawkeye, we have reasons why we haven't sent it to Ukraine even though it would be an amazing testing grounds (its the breaks, they are faulty) Ukraine is a new ally but sits way on the other side of the world, while we got problems here in Australia's backyard, with a far more potent threat which is China, we cant afford to give away too much equipment like what Nato can, china has satellites and know alot about our army and capabilities, they send warships to moniter each year talismen sabre, if they see a weakness with australia, knowing we are one of the big contenders in the indo pacific, they could exploit that, giving away equipment might not be in our national interest, doing so could potentially leave us in dead water, with our new IFVs and Abrams years away from being on australian soil, aswell as our replacement attack helicopters, transport helicopters, new submarines, and any new capability we are trying to acquire still far away, giving away old stuff might bite us in the ass while we have large strategic gaps

Europe has had this same issue for decades. Only now are we investing in reasonable numbers of layered defence systems. The israle F35s shooting down cruse missiles was a nice suprise tho. I would imagine Auz would need datalinked aircraft + some energy weapons to cover such a vast area or you could just hand out stingers to the dropbears 😂

without them our cities are practically defenceless

We should have gotten the Austal OPV based on the enhanced Cape Class. In the long term we need to transfer the Cape Class from the RAN to Border Force and leave border control and constabulary work to Border Force. The RAN should get corvettes, frigates, destroyers and LHD’s plus specialist vessels like mine hunters and focus on war fighting. Also nuclear subs was a stupid idea as we need subs now: we should immediately get German Type 216S diesel that are being used by Singapore and are special forces capable.

nice video lad

greetings old friend. love the video 10/10, really are improving ! firstly Russia has created 20? Armatas(a test batch) anyways, besides that one thing id expect knowing the conflict in Ukraine has drastically changed how we all view armored combat, i wouldn't be surprised to see the t14 go back to the drawing board and incorporate lessons learned from the Ukrainian conflict. but as we know right now. its better to buy t90ms for the conflict in Ukraine over the t14, just too much at risk for the kremlin to lose. btw, my mans congrats on the sub mile mark, cant wait for you to hit 100 then eventually 1000 :)

Great video, Cheers.

I hope the Indians "express a interest" to get their hands on one, then we will know just how bad they are. Like when they were partners in the SU57 until they saw flight + radar return data.

An actual photo of the Arafura would have been of great assistance to actually know what you are talking about. There are some videos of the unidentified thing out there, as well.

Rather your opinion, than any comment on SKY,

Amphibious vessels with three F-35b each vessel would be the way to go, surface vessel that isn't a aircraft carrier would be defeated by a vessel you could cycle F-35b off the deck to intercept an destroy vessels as a hunting vessel of surface vessel in a war situation

It is a warship which was never meant to go to war

"Horses for courses"

Could be worse pal, do you guys have any more sailors the Royal navy can "borrow" ours keep retiring before their ship is built.

There is only one gas turbine for high speed travel, operational speed is provided by the four diesel engines / electric drive. The sonar system is superior because of the silent nature of the electric drive, something the Arafura and Hobart don’t have. The change to a high vls model is because the government thinks nuclear submarines will increase asw capability and so they can reduce the number of asw frigates, but the proposed model won’t have a sonar so its essentially going to be a v2 Hobart. The new model will be cheaper than the asw model, so maybe Labour is all about saving money, not military capability.

Those 30mm cannons are probably going to be for drone defence.