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Eso pienso yo.P44 escreveu:Um 3º LPD???????
Aircraft carrier on navy's secret $4bn wish list
By Ian McPhedran
March 25, 2008 01:08am
Article from: The Daily Telegraph
THE Royal Australian Navy has produced a secret $4 billion "wish list" that includes an aircraft carrier, an extra air warfare destroyer and long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles for its submarine fleet.
The RAN wants a third 26,000 tonne amphibious ship equipped with vertical take-off jet fighters, a fourth $2 billion air warfare destroyer and cruise missiles that could strike targets thousands of kilometres away.
The list comes at a time when the RAN can barely find enough sailors to crew its existing fleet.
It also coincides with a Federal Government push to save $1 billion a year in defence costs as well as a government-ordered White Paper which will set the spending priorities for the next two decades.
According to insiders, the Government was unimpressed by the RAN's push for more firepower at a time when the Government is aiming to slash spending.
"The navy is out of control," one defence source said.
It is understood that the wish list was the final straw in the tense relationship between the Government and Chief of Navy Vice-Admiral Russ Shalders - who will be replaced in July by Rear Admiral Russell Crane.
Admiral Shalders last year also pushed hard for an expensive US-designed destroyer, but lost out to the cheaper, Spanish option.
Taxpayers will spend more than $11 billion to provide the RAN with the two 26,000-tonne amphibious ships and three air-warfare destroyers equipped with 48 vertical launch missiles.
The two big ships, known as Landing Helicopter Docks, are designed for amphibious assaults and will be fitted with helicopters and be capable of carrying more than 1000 troops and heavy vehicles such as tanks and trucks.
The RAN wants a third ship to carry vertical take-off fighter jets.
Its last aircraft carrier, HMAS Melbourne, was decommissioned in 1982 before being sold for scrap.
The latest ships are 10m longer and 8m wider than the Melbourne and will be built in Spain and fitted out at the Tenix shipyard in Melbourne.
The Spanish navy will carry 30 Harrier jump jets aboard its similar ships.
They will each cost more than $1.7 billion. The fighters would cost about $100 million each. The destroyers will cost about $2 billion each, taking the total cost to more than $4 billion.
Tomahawk cruise missiles cost about $1 million each and can carry a 450kg conventional or 200 kiloton nuclear warhead more than 2500km.
In the past Australia has stayed away from long-range strike missiles for fear of triggering a regional arms race.
The wish list is what the RAN would like to see make up part of the White Paper process which will later this year provide a strategic blueprint for the defence of the nation for the next 20 years.
That process will direct new spending worth more than $50 billion over the next 10 years.
Me parece normal cuando ni siquiera pueden completar las plantillas de sus navíos en la actualidad. El trabajo de los almirantes el pedir y pedir... si fuera por los almirantes españoles ya tendríamos 2 CVN y 6 SSN por lo menosP44 escreveu:Pelos comentários acima parece que o Governo australiano não irá na cantiga
Esse contrato já é da Espanhamanuel.liste escreveu:Interesante la información. Si la RAN quiere un LHD modificado para jets puede pedir uno, que aquí estaremos encantados de fabricárselo y contribuir así a garantizar la seguridad de un país amigo como es Australia
Yo de momento me conformo con que mantengan su actual pedido sin modificaciones
Our new destroyer revealed
RUSSEL EMMERSON
May 12, 2008 12:15am
THE shape of South Australia's $5 billion Air Warfare Destroyers has been unveiled for the first time.
One of three 1:72 scale models of the new Hobart Class destroyer was yesterday shown exclusively to The Advertiser at the project's Felixstow headquarters.
Previous models have shown Navantia's F104 ship, on which the AWD was based, but the new model shows the shape and configuration of Australia's next-generation warship.
AWD Alliance chief executive John Gallacher said the handover of the models would give the public a better understanding of the project.
"Now we can see and explain to people that this is the ship we are building," he said. "It gives us more perspective on the ship."
Commodore Andrew Cawley, representing the Royal Australian Navy, said the models would also help systems developers and those involved in the project understand the operating environment of the final product.
"These are the final configurations with everything in place," he said.
"The model allows for the workers to get a feel for the space they will work in and we are also trying to get in on the blind spots on the radar – where it can see and where it can't see."
The models are the first contractual output of the Air Warfare Destroyer Alliance, a joint venture between ship builder ASC, systems engineer Raytheon Australia and the Defence Materiel Organisation.
They show the ship as it will appear with Australian weaponry and communications equipment and modifications, including a propeller near the front of the ship to improve its turning ability.
The fibreglass and cast resin models were made by Melbourne-based model maker Russ French of Defence Models and Graphics. One will remain in Adelaide at the Air Warfare Destroyer headquarters in Felixstow. The remaining two will be shipped to the Royal Australian Navy headquarters in Canberra and Fleet headquarters in Sydney.
The AWD Alliance will begin building the destroyers next year as a series of 29 blocks or modules, 70 per cent of which will be built by other companies.
Each module is expected to weigh about 200 tonnes and be up to 20m in length.
Expressions of interest have been called for companies to build the modules, which will be built in factories and shipyards around Australia.
The completed modules will then be assembled by the AWD Alliance at the ASC shipyards at Osborne.
The results of the first tender are expected to be announced in a month.
Veo la F106 cada vez más lejos, y me alegro. Hay otros programas más urgentes, como la sustitución del BMR, los aviones sin piloto, los NH90 o los MRAP, que tienen más importancia en la actualidad para garantizar la seguridad de los militares españoles desplegados en conflictosP44 escreveu:a F104 é a mais recente da classe.
Acho que já começaram a construir a F105 na Navantia e têm planeado a F106
Desde el pasado año 2007. Entrega prevista 2012P44 escreveu:mas a F105 já está a ser construida, ou não????
