RAN DDG - And the winner is - Armada!
This sounds familiar. IIRC Navy favoured the M and the Department picked the MEKO for the ANZAC frigate. Ship splits navy and Defence Patrick Walters, National security editor June 15, 2007 A SERIOUS...
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skipper101 wrote: PMN1 what does this have to do with AWD? It goes back to Marks' replies on an alternative 'phib based on the Ro-Ro MV Tamesis.
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FMS notification..... http://www.dsca.osd.mil/pressreleases/36-b/2008/Australia_08-74.pdf
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What are we spending the rest of the 7.2 billion we are spending on these ships?
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Hi, I am slightly confused here. Only sets for one ship? And one 8 Cells VLS? I think it mean one set of "Mk 41 Baseline VII Vertical Launch Systems " (with multiple modules). As for the one ship,...
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Just to ask the question, when Australia bought the 4 OHP class Frigates from the US, and then built the Two here in Australia in the 1990's, was their any agreement made about the next australian AAW...
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AegisFC wrote: Any proof of that? Proof of what exactly, i'm just asking if there was an agreement to buy Aegis when the OHP's were bought.
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No about the offer about OHP's and the RN. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough. I've heard rumors of the RN being offered some of the Flight 1 Tico's and were rejected but I can't find any proof of it.
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AegisFC wrote: No about the offer about OHP's and the RN. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough. I've heard rumors of the RN being offered some of the Flight 1 Tico's and were rejected but I can't find any...
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Yeah, back in about 2002 or so IIRC. We were offered 3 or 4 Flt 0 or Flt 1 Ticos, the non-VLS ones. In place of the FFG-UP project. The crew size plus operating costs was the big turn-off. It would...
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Yeah, back in about 2002 or so IIRC. We were offered 3 or 4 Flt 0 or Flt 1 Ticos, the non-VLS ones. In place of the FFG-UP project. The crew size plus operating costs was the big turn-off. It would...
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skipper101 wrote: Yeah, back in about 2002 or so IIRC. We were offered 3 or 4 Flt 0 or Flt 1 Ticos, the non-VLS ones. In place of the FFG-UP project. The crew size plus operating costs was the big...
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I don't think it would have been so difficult to decommission Melbourne and Newcastle as long as there was suitable replacements. Adelaide and Canberra we decommissioned early because of the cost...
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The Hon. Greg Combet AM MP Minister for Defence Materiel and Science 16 Jun 2010 69/10 Air Warfare Destroyer block transport contract signed Greg Combet, Minister for Defence Materiel and Science,...
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$8bn navy flagship founders after construction bungle A Melbourne shipyard has botched the construction of the central keel block of the first warship. The multi-million-dollar bungle could delay the...
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Saw that, some welding and fabrication issues at the start of a new project is nothing new - though a shift to the right in the schedual is not nice. Good news is that they picked it up early. Odd bit...
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Considering that Navantia built an LHD (for themselves, see RAN Canberra class), 4 F-100 frigates (for themselves, see RAN AWD), 4 F310 frigates (Norway), and is currently building another F-100 and...
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StevoJH wrote:Just to ask the question, when Australia bought the 4 OHP class Frigates from the US, and then built the Two here in Australia in the 1990's, was their any agreement made about the next...
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