Royal Australian Navy Discussions and Updates 2.0

[StingrayOZ]

Even if a decision has been made to go SeaRAM service wide, which hasn’t been made public, nor have there been orders or announcements confirming that or even a publicly known project to implement such, it will be years if not a decade before such a reality is achieved, so we're better off not using the Phalanx we’ve already planned for, paid for and received / have in- service today in the meantime?

Even then whats the stock pile of RAM like in Australia? Do we have 10,000 and a hot factory making more completely soverign?

At least with munitions there aren't huge bottlenecks in supply chains for gun based systems. Stock piling millions of rounds of gun ammunition for long periods is entirely possibly and low cost and low maintenance. 20 and 25mm munitions are I believe manufactured by Australian Munitions. So as the 25 and 20 eventually maybe phased out, perhaps don't do that right now until we have huge stockpiles of both old and new.

Gun based munitions are something we can basically completely sovereign source locally end to end. As we have seen in Ukraine, gun based systems are still useful. Even if they eventually become less useful for naval combatants, I think they will always be useful for army. Even as a long term strategic stockpile, Ukraine has shown again, having a warehouse with guns and munitions, even if its 20 years, 30 years, 40 years old, in an actual conflict, the gun stuff can be bought back into action quickly and be adapted. If an allied nation ever needed to protect critical infrastructure etc, then these would still be useful for that.