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Missiles - An FF/DD sized warship is going to be able to hide amongst its chaff/flares and/or NULKA much easier than a 22,000 ton ship, whose countermeasures will not be as effective. Iron bombs - An FF/DD sized warship will be able to attempt to outmanoeuvre planes dropping dumb bombs, a 22,000...

I don't go for this feel-good symbolic green-eyed love-fest kind of stunt, and I can tell you that despite the media reporting it a "success", most of Sydney didnt go for it either. The skyline of the city was still pretty darn lit up.

I dont see how the two compare. I cannot think of any incident in Timor where there was multiple loss of ADF life. East Timor was an operation. 9-11 was a terrorist incident. Maybe you are getting confused with the Bali bombings, in which case 88 Aussies dies. Or even the Jakarta Embassy...

Good. Now hopefully we will order more NH-90s.

Maybe if a field time badge existed it wouldn't be such a bad thing. (frankly i dont see how flight hours compares). I will say that I have only once witnessed a lower tier sea badge being commented on, and in that instance it was justified, not a superiority mentalitity or anything. Each to...

I think people should be recognised for their sea time. Because frankly, those who rack up the years at sea deserve to get recognised for it. For the jobs where the majority of your careers will be spent in a sea going billet, you will spend 6 months a year, just about every year, at sea on a 1...

Yeah sadly there is alot of truth to that, but its a pretty complicated issue. But as for only 2 subs ready for sea, i think the author has taken up a liberal dose of poetic license there. The RAN Submarine fleet is undergoing a big upgrade, includes the latest USN-RAN developed Mk48 ADCAP, and...

Well this a quote form Carlo Kopp, the worst defence commentator in the English speaking world. Absolutely no substance behind any of his tripe. His work is a waste of space and he is a waste of my air and our time.

Yes. The buttons were to prevent them from wiping ttheir noses with the sleeve.

knob #1 and  #2 They did it over the holiday period. So if something had gone wrong, 200 people on one of the RANs east based ships would have been called away from their families over chirstmas to rescue those two selfish clowns. I cant believe this journo compared those two to Armstrong or...

They are not going to be as freidnly to the ADF. Even on issues where they do have the best intentions, their policies and stances are horrible. They are numpties, who have absolutely zero idea, which would be okay if they listened to the advice of people who actually know whats going on, the...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sody4Fl8CJE Best vid on the net IMHO. The song fits the life perfectly Very charry

Voting is not complusory. Turning up to a voting centre is. If you choose not to vote for whatever reason you are perfectly within your rights not to put anything on the ballot paper, or even draw a large set of testicles. I hope the coalition stays in. This is not the time to have Krud and...

i do admit i love how they can catch indonesian fisherman up north in an afternoon and be back in darwin getting drunk that night. forget about the painfully slow towing of the FFV over 200 miles to port.

Yeah its a good series, in my opinion anyway. Being in the RAN and now serving on Patrol Boats I think they have done it justice, even if they do take some artistic license in the storyline. The DVD comes out here this month from what I've heard. They are filming season 2 now onboard HMAS...

You havnt spoken to too many people about it then mate. Northern Hemisphere rugby sucks the big one, oh well whatever works so congrats. I guess I'll root for the Scots now, or the argies.

I doubt he has made this comment to tell the navy anything new. I'd say its got more to do with putting the issue out there for the public to realise. So that nobody thinks the Navy is useless in todays environment.

They aren't that much of a pain. It's ordinary rig of the day here in Darwin, all year long. And they do look good.

Wow, France lost, and they still have Ireland to go in the group stage. Go the Wallabies tonight!!! Im so pumped, its gonna be awesome

The worst part is that because its a public TV network, my tax dollars pay these guys and fund this kind of ****. Hope they do some time, this isn't the first instance where these knobs have pulled this kind of 'stunt'.