The Australian armada is sinking under a mountain of debt as it chases projects some argue aren’t fit for 21st century warfare.
Flanked by senior cabinet ministers, South Australia’s premier and the country’s top military leaders, Malcolm Turnbull looked ebullient as he proclaimed June 29, 2018, a “great day for Australia’s security”.
Defence Minister Richard Marles will consider how many Hunter-class frigates to build when a major naval review is finished. Beyond the navy’s leadership and BAE’s representatives, it is now hard to find fans of the Hunter-class frigate. found the final cost was likely to be “significantly higher” than $45 billion. It also revealed that the Defence Department initially concluded that the Italian and Spanish designs were better options for Australia than BAE’s Type 26 ship.
Around the world, even more profound questions are being asked about the viability of large surface ships in an era of precision missiles, drones and sophisticated surveillance systems. “My argument has been for a very long time that surface ships have no serious place in Australian military strategy in any conflict with a capable maritime power,” says White, the former Defence official.
Stressing that the ship’s primary role was anti-submarine warfare, Hudson said his company was committed to providing Australia with a “formidable” frigate whose capabilities are “currently without peer”. The most common complaint is that, despite their size, the frigates are not equipped to carry enough ammunition — a glaring flaw given Marles has made boosting the defence force’s long-range strike capability his central goal as defence minister.
“I think historians will judge that the rush to massive investments in major surface ships that took place under the Turnbull government, and which has been sustained by subsequent governments, was really all about building up jobs in South Australia,” White says.So what answers could the surface fleet review come up with? All experts acknowledge the government faces a fiendishly difficult problem with no easy solutions. “This is a very serious game of Tetris,” Dean says.
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