Not to mention an Australian has already answered your
question:
Hi, my first post here. This is a v interesting thread. I'm
from Oz and I think I can clear up some issues.
1. Lionnoisy is an idiot who's probably still in his teens and
doesn't know anything military about from video games and the news.
I'm impressed with SG Tyrannosaur's level of knowledge.
2. The Collins Class SSK is noisy and has heaps of problems. In
Oz, we prefer that the rest of the world thinks this is the case.
;) It gives us the element of surprise. Besides this point, it is
the largest SSK in the world at over 3000 tons displacement with
the same combat system as the Virginia SSN. It is armed with ADCAPS
and is fitted for special forces. There is discussion of fitting
Tomahawk capability.
3. A smart country only spends what is neccessary for effective
defence and not a penny more. A lot of teenage boys are obsessed
with large military forces when clearly the country doesn't need
it. For example Singapore doesn't need an aircraft carrier.
4. Taking into account point 3, you can't compare SG's navy to
Aust's navy. We're a blue water navy because we have to be with so
much ocean. SG is a green or brown water navy because it only has
to defend itself from Malaysia and Indonesia. There is no open
ocean to consider.
5. Lionnoisy claims that Australia has only 10 ships defending
its borders. Have you heard of JORN? With JORN we don't need to
have ships physically there for defence. We have electronic "eyes"
scanning our borders all the way up to Singapore Harbour and
possibly to Hong Kong.
6. Apart from SE Asia, the corvette platform is a redundant
platform. Outside SE Asia's islands, the corvette is ineffective.
Australia chooses to have large ships instead of smaller ones like
SG, even though SG may have a larger number of ships.
7. Australia's future navy is looking very good and Lionnoisy
should be aware of this since even the news is reporting it.
2 LHD @ 27000 tons, 1 RoRo ship ( to be ordered by 2010), 3+1
Aegis Destroyers @ 6250 tons, 8 Anzac Frigates @ 3600 tons, 6
Minehunters, 6 Collins Class Subs, 14 Armidale Patrol Boats.
SG has 6 Formidables? @ 3200 tons. Please lionnoisy, get a
brain, SG navy more than kicks Malaysia's, but Australia is a Top
10-15 Navy.
I think what is interesting is that you seem to think reusing
old arguments will work just because you haven't used them for a
while.
