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Fred the Great replied to the thread How not to build a submarine. The Collins Class..I guess it comes down to how you think of it, and what you're prepared to pay. If the idea is predominantly ASW then you can add...
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Fred the Great replied to the thread How not to build a submarine. The Collins Class..Well yeah, true, but Dominic is talking about doing it gradually into the future. You are right though. There are certainly some not...
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Fred the Great replied to the thread How not to build a submarine. The Collins Class..You know I basically agree with almost every word. I mean, I do think if you're going to double the Navy then a carrier should be on the...
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Fred the Great replied to the thread How not to build a submarine. The Collins Class..I know you like to constantly rant about historical politics and politicians but it's just getting tiresome frankly.
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Fred the Great replied to the thread How not to build a submarine. The Collins Class..Doubled in size at the very least? Goodness grief Dominic. You'd scare the Kiwis. They'd start to wonder if those "Let's invade New...
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The problem with the critics of the Future Submarine project is they lack a better alternative. Sure SSNs would be better, but they... -
Fred the Great replied to the thread How not to build a submarine. The Collins Class..Oh dear. I get that you’re very passionate. I feel for those poor American submariners who died back in WW2 too, really I do. But the...
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Fred the Great replied to the thread How not to build a submarine. The Collins Class..Yep, a weak jab from the left who don’t really believe in investing in defence at all. ;)
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Fred the Great replied to the thread How not to build a submarine. The Collins Class..As I said, you know about submarines. What I’ve seen of that work I appreciated. But the decisions that led to the Colllins - along with...
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Fred the Great replied to the thread How not to build a submarine. The Collins Class..Really? So why do we have six Collins and before them six Oberons? I'm sorry, you might know about submarines, but you're not showing...
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Fred the Great replied to the thread How not to build a submarine. The Collins Class..It's not massively implausible, but it would take a not insignificant political commitment across governments and it wouldn't be a big...
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Fred the Great replied to the thread How not to build a submarine. The Collins Class..I don't think so really. We seem to have averaged about a dozen or so surface combatants. If we go back to, say, the mid '80s, you had...
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Fred the Great replied to the thread How not to build a submarine. The Collins Class..If we had a shipbuilding industry of note from post or pre WW2, then you could imagine we would have seen some very different...
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Fred the Great replied to the thread How not to build a submarine. The Collins Class..Can you explain what on Earth you're getting at and how this relates to the topic?
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Fred the Great replied to the thread How not to build a submarine. The Collins Class..Your first sentence is accurate. The rest doesn’t make a lot of sense. The potential problem is what has occurred more recently. When...