Chinese warship live-fire exercise discovered by Virgin Australia pilot, Air safety body says

justinbrett said:
Of course it's possible (maybe even probable) a part of the ADF did know beforehand, but not the part that speaks to Airservices, so the information flow is slow.

And also that they may never admit to knowing if their method of attaining that knowledge is classified.
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Reported on the news tonight that the ADF called it in also but got to ASA about 1hr later. Probably tried to call over DNATS…..😂 (IYKYK)
 
Chief of defence asked if “task force” was accompanied by a nuclear submarine. :) :) Should have asked about bearded scallops. Same answer.
 
RooFlyer said:
That's an upgrade

www.police.tas.gov.au

Tasmania’s wooden police boat celebrates 50 years of service - Tasmania Police

Tomorrow Tasmania Police’s vessel ‘Vigilant’ marks 50 years of continuous operational service. Assistant Commissioner Adrian Bodnar said the Tasmanian-built PV Vigilant has made an outstanding contribution to both maritime law enforcement and safety since it was welcomed into the Tasmania Police...
www.police.tas.gov.au www.police.tas.gov.au
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What a laughing stock our Defences are....
 
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kpc said:
What a laughing stock our Defences are....
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Not at all. Should be concentrating on Australia, not wasting $300billion on silly submarines to support US policy in SCS.

People and politicians need a reality check and not play silly politics with absurd anti-China policy.

Far better ways to enhance our defence forces.
 
kpc said:
www.smh.com.au

Our defences have been tested, and they’ve failed

How much faith can we have that the Defence Force will know what’s going on and keep the public informed about any threats? Very little, if the past week is anything to go on.
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That article is dribble. There’s f’all the ADF can do about Chinese ships sailing in international waters.

Maintaining the high moral ground was the correct thing. When our ships and aircraft do the same thing in the seas off Vietnam and the Philippines, the Chinese lob in doing also sorts of unsafe stuff….
 
SYD said:
All very capable!
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No. The Anzacs have crewing issues and maintenance delays though AMCAP will keep them ticking over hopefully until more Hunters arrive. And 1 ANZAC already retired. COLLINS?. Maybe half are operational capable at any time.
And only 3Hobarts which are the most advanced in the fleet
 
Quickstatus said:
No. The Anzacs have crewing issues and maintenance delays though AMCAP will keep them ticking over hopefully until more Hunters arrive. And 1 ANZAC already retired. COLLINS?. Maybe half are operational capable at any time.
And only 3Hobarts which are the most advanced in the fleet
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The fleet force structure has pretty much had that as the basis of operations for decades. At least 2 of 3 destroyers active. At least 2 of 6 submarines active and any frigate is a bonus. We actually only ordered 6 ANZACs but the Kiwis renigged and we ended up with eight.
 
Quickstatus said:
The ANZACS were supposed to be the second line surface combatant ships per the 1987 paper which called for an expanded Navy but it neverdid not expand
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The ANZACs started life as a Tier 3 Offshore Patrol Vessel (circa 2500 tonnes) but someone (who shall remain nameless) inserted a requirement to carry a seahawk helicopter. Thus ballooning the size to a min of 3500 tonne. That’s what spooked the Kiwis…

They’ve had all sort of stuff added to them ever since and now bordering on another submarine force with all that top weight…
 

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