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My thoughts? I concur with YZT's comment re the leak and its implications.

Gosh, that does surprise me.  ::)

The motion picture........ http://video.airforce.gov.au/play/4622

Re above, RAN and DoD desk wallahs and boffins had quite a few peeps in UK for T26 work a few years ago. All concerned, and later their bosses in Canberra, were very happy with everything. Last I heard that was still the case, but who know? Re subs, following report from the weekend. BTW the...

Um, it wouldn't be very intelligent for a serving seaman and engineering RAN bubblehead to write an article for publication, but somehow this one, just published, aligns to the tune of 100 per cent with the views of RAN sub country on the garbage consistently published on the Soryu boats. From...

Preferred OPV/corvette design? Unknown. A nifty new vid follows, of Cantabria RAS-ing the Spanish LHD. Will soon be common sight for the RAN. Here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTyzKBQ1rJs I very much hope and trust the Cantabria's RCN det goes well for all.  :)

Agreed. And by Baz.... Correct on both counts. A friend did a brief stint her last Oct (Nov?) and reports that she's very much showing her age. And that wardroom bar was small, uncomfortable and generally utter crap.  [:'(

The last big ship built in Oz was HMAS Success, at what was then HMA Dockyard Cockatoo Island, in Sydney. She was supposed to have a sister ship, but, rather famously, the unions did their little union thing and Success not only ate her own budget but that of the sister ship, and a bit more on...

Vaguely DWP-ish news to hand......... RAN has selected Navantia's Cantabria design for the 2+1 AOR project. All to be built in Spain: the first two ASAP and the third for delivery in late 2020s. Final hull may be of modded design for enhanced logistics.

Just to report that the much-delayed Oz defence white paper will be released on either Thurs or Fri. While the media are already running some leaks, I'm just waiting for the document. It'll be posted on the DWP site, here  -  http://www.defence.gov.au/Whitepaper/default.asp

I'm still waiting for someone, hopefully of these 'experts' that get so much media attention, to explain precisely what Virginias the RAN could actually lease? It will come as something of surprise to the USN that it has a surplus fleet of V-boats, just laying around, waiting for someone else...

Behold the horror of khaki Australians trying to play hockey...... http://video.defence.gov.au/play/kwOGd3eDpokvt50GRIc8wMImq9V-MtZR# They somehow scored a trip to Vegas last month. Go figure!  ???

Motion picture of the festivities, avec Oz's new and generously girthed defence minister..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w1y1GdSx_I She departed Sydney a few days after the commissioning, doing shakedown stuff, and whatnot.

Quote from UK PM David Cameron a few hours ago. "We will maintain our plan to buy 138 F35 Lighting aircraft over the life of the program." Of that, 24 delivered and in service  by 2023.

The four earmarked for sale to Qatar are on the cusp of being released back on the market. The Qatari govt doesn't seem interested in parting with actual money, and all concerned in US have had enough.

SDSR can be downloaded from this UK gov site, here - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-security-strategy-and-strategic-defence-and-security-review-2015

Royal Naval Historic Flight, from RNAS Yeovilton, has released a vid to mark the 75th anniversary of the attack of the Italian fleet at Taranto. Worth watching.  :nod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49UJmraQlc0

As are the Germans and the French.

In reply... "I was under the impression that the senior ADF brass really, really don't want the Japanese subs." They don't. "So a new minister might not be the biggest wrench thrown into the Japanese bid...?" Yes/no/maybe/dunno. With what is many respects a new govt all this is muddier than...

Was referring to Chretien and the Sea King replacements. Re above Trudeau/F35 news - good luck to him getting something into service that is actually less $$$ than the F-35. Optimising Typhoon, Rafale or Gripen for RCAF requirements will have to be funded wholly by DND, and it won't be...