We start with some more information about the major Indo-Pacific maritime conference in Sydney and the description of it by Defence Minister Richard Marles as a type of Disneyland. Unfortunately, this is emblematic of the trivialisation of Defence topics in this country and partly explains why there has never been a serious discussion about acquiring nuclear powered submarines, or many of the embarrassing details of SEA 3000.
Looking internationally, the US is behaving erratically with President Donald Trump now being openly bribed. Is this how a reliable security partner behaves? On top of that, there might be a few more problems coming up for the pace of US submarine construction.
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Can’t make this stuff up Kym, USN think tanks argue the U.S. should approach Japan, Korea & Australia to jointly develop a fleet of 20 conventional subs to affordably mitigate China’s mixed fleet growth rate.
See link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV6I7jyOeuQ
Thanks Mike – very interesting and well worth watching. The greatest threat to SSNs has always been ultra-quiet SSKs.