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Our submarines to be built overseas? : Comments
By Peter Coates, published 12/9/2014While Abbott may be saving money, uncertainty, control and risk over the next 40 years of the future submarine program should still be considered.
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The only defense for us against a large aggressor is nuclear ICBMs & long ranger Nuclear or conventionally armed cruise missiles. Any thing else, in the numbers we can afford to buy & man is just a joke. We would represent only a mild annoyance to any large power with a dozen little subs & a few even quality strike aircraft.
Any local threat could be handled with our patrol boats, if armed with adequate missiles, surface to air & surface to surface & cruise. These are cheap, easy to man, & we can afford enough to be useful.
To a major aggressor we would currently be as much impediment to a moderate attack as half a dozen Wirraway pretend fighters were in Rabaul, & a few more were in Darwin. Adding some subs, even if they actually work, would by basically a gesture only.
If we want defense we have to pull our finger out of our ears, [& other places], & get serious. A good quantity of cruise missiles, which may be & are nuclear armed could eliminate any invasion force, far enough out, to prevent anyone considering making an invasion attempt. A few subs & our air force could at best only inflict acceptable damage before being eliminated.
The right answer is forget some piddling little subs, & get serious, or just roll over with our feet in the air in welcome.