[LINK] How not to buy a nuclear submarine

[Frank O'Connor]

Mmmm … 

Drones, and ever ’smarter’ drones are in all probability the way of the future.

And in 40 years time who can predict how far they would have progressed. 

Salt a few thousand aquatic smart drones (and their attendant solar power stations) with good acoustics capabilities in any stretch of water and you would deny that stretch of water to any submarine or naval force. Tie them into satellite and other battlefield coms and you have a tactical weapon par excellence.

Ditto for land based and aerial drones …

Methinks that big metal items like submarines, ships, and major large hardware will simply be expensive, and bloody, targets in any war fought in 30 or 40 years time … just about the time Australia’s much vaunted nuke submarines come on line.

Sadly, the military often builds capability to win the last war, rather than future wars. (As they did with battleships, the bomber that will always get through, the Maginot Line, Singapore’s naval defence and a heap of other expensive but ultimately useless pre-WW2 arms development)

Just my 2 cents worth ...
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> On 21 Sep 2021, at 11:42 am, David Boxall <linkdb at boxall.name> wrote:
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> On 21/09/2021 08:23, Tom Worthington wrote:
>> Australia could lease submarines, complete with crews, in the short term. This would avoid investing in soon to be obsolete designs from the US or UK and loow for work on underwater drones and tactics to mature..
> 
> Then decide whether submarines are really a good investment after all, while building sovereign capacity to manufacture drones (which I suspect will be the future of defence - and offence).
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