Royal Australian Navy Discussions and Updates 2.0

[SammyC]

Was it not possible to modify Japan's land Spy7 panels for ASEV, i.e. smaller or was it less expensive to just build a larger ship?

I think if you have it, then you might as well use its full capacity. They will be expensive ships though. I read somewhere that the radars by themselves are worth $3B a set. Will make a Hunter look cheap in comparison.

I suspect if they had a clean slate and didn't have spare radars, Japan might simply have evolved the Maya class with a spy6 radar and Aegis baseline 10 package, similar to a flight III AB.

 

[John Fedup]

So following the US tradition … Albanese, Morrison, Turnbull, Abbot, Rudd, Gillard, Howard Keating, Hawke Fraser Whitlam … enough for a fleet of 11….. … realistically a roll call of people who did the bare minimum fur the ADF .

O/T One thing Canada got right was the naming of the Harry DeWolf class AOPS, all named after serving Canadian service members (including one from 1812). No pollies, hopefully the same will apply to the two CCG AOPS.