I have a name for the M1A2 SEPv3 tank. How about we call it the Abrams tank, just like the American's and everybody else in the world?

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Happy New Year. Good name, I reckon. It'll be interesting to hear about the refurbishment of the old tanks going to Ukraine. Who is doing that?

Has anyone ever thought of building pure missile boats, manned by minimal crew, no avaiation, no gun, nothing but something like 126 vls cells and it just follows our air warfare destroyers around. The Air warfare destroyers link to the missile boats and AEGIS manages the firing. Cheap to build, cheap to operate and quadruple our fire power

SAF must really into Drone as they were used successfully by the Ukraine against Russians forces, Drone and AL robotic fighting machine are the next battle ground stuff minimizing human death.

Geographically and politically, Australias military is effectively New Zealands military. No one that would attack NZ is someone Australia could ignore attacking its closest neighbour. So, for any nation contemplating attacking NZ, their greatest threat would be Australia. Regardless of wha Australia said publicly, they would have to take out Australias military capacity first, and if NZ doesn't have a defence pact with the US, Australia does. So, to attack NZ, you have to attack Australia first, and that likely involves rhe US, and then the NZ military becomes largely redundant. So, while as an Australian, its annoying that NZ is basically having a free lunch at our extent, the reality is, NZ is not safe now due to its military, and spending more on its military doesnt make it safer. Maritime patrol, and projecting into the Pacific is what its military gives it, so its a question about what its prepared to pay for this.

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I like a united peer system numbering three like three major general under lieutenant general

Go for Mogami

this milestone marks the beginning of the end of the Western hegemony, imperialism & colonialism

In weight of 66 tons, they are to heavy for Australia or neighbour countries !

how are these moved around by the army? road train trucks? Any ships? Any planes?

Make in EU always over price, their industry has problem recently, example of Submarines Deal with France.

The rate of tank losses in Ukraine tells me that Australia should keep its older Abrams. The US Army has hundreds of M-1s in storage that could be sent.

These Australian M1A2SEPv3 tanks are new as they replace an older model, and they are new as the turrets are new build. Additionally, they are unique as they are as capable of the U.S. M1A2SEPv3 tanks, with the exception of depleted uranium armour.

Japanese Defence officials are offering an upgraded and larger version of Japan's Mogami 30 FFM to satisfy Australia’s General Purpose Frigate program, according to an ABC report of 17 December. This is the version I discuss in this briefing.

The whole premise for tier 2 is to obtain effective vessels that can be introduced into service quickly. Although "Upgraded Mogami" appears attractive and Japan is a rapidly developing strategic partner, it is also the riskier option. MHI has never exported a warship to an external country before nor setup offshore partner manufacturing. They even sought assistance from BAE Systems Australia to respond to the RFP. In comparison, TKMS is a familiar operator in country with close relationships with the RAN, established supply chains and engineering support services. They are the ones with runs on the board re offshore builds and that is with the A200 design itself. IMO there is a clear choice here. We were in a similar position with the Hunter Class where we should have chosen Navantia for an evolved Hobart leveraging all that was already established. Instead we pivoted to BAE which has resulted in the most expensive frigates in the world at $9B each with no deliveries planned for 10 years.

17 Bridge Layers is a bit over the top don't ya think? After all, when attacked, we'll probably only have to cross the Katherine and Adelaide Rivers 🤣 Oh wait, unless we have to move along the Hughenden to Cloncurry highway, then we need a thousand of them. (and that's in the dry).

The new zealand needs to have purchase the euro fighter with long range to deal with China. New Zealand needs to increase growth to help improve their military without affecting other parts of the economy.

Thank you for this briefing. Very informative. The lack of anti-drone defenses is really strange in this day and age. Mortars may give an extra edge, but vulnerability to drones can be catastrophic.

Your displacement figure for Hunter is incorrect, it’s 10,000 tonnes per senate estimates, with a lightship of 8,200. It displaces more than a flight III Arleigh Burke ….

The trouble is,a tank still has to expose itself,to get a shot off!

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I like 'Funnelweb', I just hope our enemies aren't equipped with glass jars! 😉

agree with you on the limitations the war in Ukraine has shown that tech has moved on quickly perhaps ordering more boxers and developing pods to use the Stingers would be a good idea could even do so with mortars and maybe even get some export money from selling those pods wouldn't hurt to go back to the original redback order with 3 brigades they all need to be fitted equally I would also think about fitting the old M113's with slingers and mortars for the other 2 brigades if they think it would save money

Funnel Web, deadly critter, one not to play with.

I thought Australia was surrounded by water. Surely the country should spend money on missiles and on the navy.

75??? How about 575 as a good start?

I’m wondering how much the cost overruns will be. The taxpayer will be screwed over again whilst the politicians and the idiots in charge of purchasing in the navy will be patttng themselves on the backs and retiring to become “consultants “ for the successful tenderer?

I think we should only name equipment after our wildlife when we make it here in Australia. This tank already has a name.

i do like the naming conventions, what anti drone capabilities can these run?

No cope cages?

Only Australia is dumb and obedient enough to buy an end of life 40-year old tank at full price that has been proven combat ineffective in the latest war.

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Considering the lacklustre performance of the Abrams in Ukraine we better hope these are never needed in active combat.

A colossal waste of money. The future is drones. But I suppose the Australian taxpayer has to do their bit the help the US MIC executives buy their fourth superyacht.

In my thinking never enough Artillery in these regiments or Brigades. Needs Doubling. Equip them with 4 to 1 Mortar Platoon teams , and plenty of MANPATS for anti Aircraft defense

Thank you. I noticed the subtle hint that: NO PROVISION has been made for a War Reserve to replace combat damaged/destroyed vehicles🙂. The politicians who quibble about defence equipment procurement quantities whilst annually wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on ill considered election stunts, are a plague on every country! Please keep up the good and somewhat lonely fight. Cheers from NZ🇳🇿.

I believe we use our own armour thats different to the US armour and perhaps, better. The 49 M1A1 tanks going to Ukraine were leased by us from the US and as such we were returning them I'm told. But now they are going to Ukraine under our name...not sure. Looking at the Ukraine conflict it would seem we would be vulnerable to drones etc as we don't have the ability to deal with them. The funnel web would be a big juicy target.

Seeing as all the other armor but the boxer is being named after spiders then funnel web is a good name along with the Redback, Huntsman. The boxer would be the odd one out then and could maybe be called the wolf.

I could never understand why the Anzacs were never in a continuous build. When first commissioned, they were acceptable, just. Over the years they have been built up to an acceptable standard, but still lacking. These ships should have been used as a starting point to create the next class. Additional VLS tubes, larger engines to provide more electrical energy, better point defence systems, etc. Why does Australia continually reinvent the wheel? We know how to build Anzacs, or we did. With a continuous build phase, these skills would not be lost, and we could keep our fleet in a much better state of readiness.

Explain how this is new. It's 2024, not 2009

The mech battalion won't be a thing. Redbacks will be run by armoured farmed out when needed, just like the old days of B 3/4. and RAAC has stated it doesn't have capability to do training on M1 variants so up to engineers to do thier own skilling.

Boxers won't be there until after 2030, ASLAV being digitally upgraded to cover the gap.

They got all the good toys after I got out... Dammit.

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Should of stuck a deal with the British and got Chally 2.