Royal Australian Navy Discussions and Updates 2.0

[old faithful]

re: potential drone attacks....if shipping containers full of black market cigarettes can make it on shore, I am positive that shipping containers full of drones could to.
This makes a land based drone attack against infrastructure a real possibility, and as has been pointed out, we dont have any real (publiclly released) anti drone capability. I hope there is some sort of EW answer to that problem?

 

[ADMk2]

re: potential drone attacks....if shipping containers full of black market cigarettes can make it on shore, I am positive that shipping containers full of drones could to.
This makes a land based drone attack against infrastructure a real possibility, and as has been pointed out, we dont have any real (publiclly released) anti drone capability. I hope there is some sort of EW answer to that problem?

Of course there is.

We just haven’t bought any…

 

[ADMk2]

Anduril Altius UAS launcher as fitted (and fired) from a Ghostshark.

As suspected the vessel has to all but surface to launch these. 22x per craft seemingly from twin 11x round launchers…

Taken from an Anduril vid of socials. Not of course from ADF…

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"Ghost Shark has teeth now." - @PatConroy1, Australia's Minister for Defence Industry. The @ausgov and @Australian_Navy confirmed the payloads that our Ghost Shark extra-large autonomous submarine carries: sea mines, logistics caches, and air-launched effects for ISR and strike. Ghost Sharks are…

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[iambuzzard]

Anduril Altius UAS launcher as fitted (and fired) from a Ghostshark.

As suspected the vessel has to all but surface to launch these. 22x per craft seemingly from twin 11x round launchers…

Taken from an Anduril vid of socials. Not of course from ADF…

Anduril Industries (@anduriltech) on X

"Ghost Shark has teeth now." - @PatConroy1, Australia's Minister for Defence Industry. The @ausgov and @Australian_Navy confirmed the payloads that our Ghost Shark extra-large autonomous submarine carries: sea mines, logistics caches, and air-launched effects for ISR and strike. Ghost Sharks are…

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Impressive. Someone is doing their job.