This is the Land Forces exhibition special feature with some random highlights from the show last week. These included an uncrewed 8-wheeled armoured ground vehicle enabled by AI and designed by BAE Systems to operate with conventional forces. Also SPEE3D, an Australian company using additive manufacturing to undertake in-field repairs. Despite international success – including sending units to Ukraine – do you think the Australian Army has bought any? A few words about Hanwha, the South Korean company that has gone from obscurity to now being the largest supplier, by dollar value, to the Army. They have announced that Sydney-based Advanced Navigation will become part of their global supply chains, which should be a huge boost to business. And some unexpected success – Chief of the Army has agreed to an interview to discuss the Taipan helicopter fiasco (my words, not his). Let’s hope other senior figures also push back against ridiculous Ministerial interference in what they can say in public.
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Another great podcast thanks Kym, Re AUKUS pillar 1, thought you & your listeners may be interested in the following, former ABC journo Andrew Fowler who exposed the F-35’s myriad of defects with his 2013 4 Corners episode ‘Reach For The Sky’, has released ‘Nuked’ a book exposing Scott Morrison’s criminal sabotage of RAN’s Attack Class Barracudas. Posted below are links to an interview with Fowler coupled with a recent US interview of Malcolm Turnbull that expands on Morrison’s crime and its consequences from 22:00 on the time line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHW_U5QEzWg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZOxC_vBx5w
Thanks Mike – Nuked is indeed a good read. Thanks for the links.
Always an interesting listen. Eagerly awaiting the General Purpose Frigate selection outcome decision although there appears to be a lot of political commentary around building our relationship with Japan so am concerned that a deal has already been done in the background for the Mogami.
Would be good to hear your thoughts on the Arafura class sea trials currently underway.
Looking forward to hearing the next podcast.
Thanks Rod – the General Purpose Frigate project remains shrouded in mystery, though I note that both Ministers Marles and Conroy are talking about the 5 possible designs – airbrushing out of history the blunder in surface fleet review of 4 designs (and not even being able to get the original Korean option correct). To think that dozens of senior Defence / Navy people led by a retired USN Admiral have collectively been paid tens of millions of dollars and none of them could be bothered even looking at Wikipedia. I hear the Arafura sea trials are going exceptionally well – which, once again, raises the question of why not keep the production line going and morph seamlessly into the construction of 2,200 tonne missile-equipped corvettes using the existing Australian supply chain. It’s such an obvious solution to a number of problems, particularly rapid delivery of capability.