What should be in a Brief to Cabinet on the Future Submarine Decision
After looking at only unclassified material on the Australian Future Submarine issue what I would put in a Brief to the National Security Committee of Cabinet on the Future Submarine Decision is the...
View ArticleJoint Media Release, from PM and MinDef Future Submarine Program
http://www.minister.defence.gov.au/2016/04/26/prime-minister-minister-for-defence-joint-media-release-future-submarine-program/Prime Minister, Minister for Defence – Joint media release – Future...
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DCNS wins Australia's Future Submarine contest - Youtubes, Pictures, Anthem.
Youtube featuring the winning DCNS Shortfin contender.---Approximate DCNS Shortfin Barracuda's specifications. Displacement of 4,500 tonnes (surfaced) is indeed likely. Displacement submerged may be...
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Why DCNS Won.
Shortfin Barracuda Block 1A (Artwork courtesy DCNS).In the avalanche of DCNS win articles over the last 2 days Hans J. Ohff has written this excellent explanation in The Conversation, of April 26,...
View ArticleSpecifications Table - Shortfin Barracuda Block 1A
After internet searching no current, precise, detailed, list of DCNS Shortfin specifications has been located. Instead I've drawn together (and sometimes inferred) specs from a variety of internet...
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Shortfin's Pump Jet Propulsor - A Sales Feature?
Note that a Scorpene (2,000 tonne "small" conventional submarine (SSK)) is depicted with a pump jet. Was the Scorpene pump jet only an idea in 2005 that was phased out/cancelled? Or is pump jet a...
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Turnbull's Pre-Election Shipbuilding Rush - Table of Ship/Sub Acquisitions
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten (left) may remain ahead in the polls (as at May 1, 2016) while Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (right) continues his naval shipbuilding spending offensive.---Prime...
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Caustic French Take on Not Yet Signed Submarine "mégacontrat"
COMMENTFrench blog The Jack Turf Journal has a caustic take (of May 1, 2016) on Australia's and President Hollande's coming submarine contract of the century. Jack expects "heated discussions" before...
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DCNS had a good 2015 and 2016 may be even better
The French (DCNS) made version of the French FREMM (multi-purpose) Frigate is known as the Aquitaine class. Delivery of one to Egypt in 2015 and the Languedoc to the French Navy, in March 2016, helped...
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Why DCNS Won - Some reasons not yet covered in the media.
This diagram reflects the difference in detail between DCNS bids and publically assumed details. For example: Many people would be happy with "Weight 4,500 tonnes" but those closer to submarine issues...
View ArticleA poorly timed Media Release on Future Submarine matters?
Is the following the first public relations problem involving the DCNS win?There may be no Design Contract signed between the Australian Government and DCNS until 2017 but naval-technology.com is...
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Nuclear Propelled Australian Submarines (work in progress)
How can Australian submarines, conventional or nuclear propelled, influence the strategic problem of the South China Sea disputes, if at all? (Map courtesy Mike Nudelman/Business Insider)---Australia...
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Strategic Issues for Australia - East Timor and New Caledonia
East Timor is just north of yellow coffin shaped Zone of "Cooperation". China in 2007 was interested in placing a long range radar on the northeast coast of East Timor. ---Australian naval assets,...
View ArticleSAFT may supply Lithium-ion batteries for Shortfin
A snippet.French battery company SAFT may supply Lithium-ion or possibly Lead-acid batteries (depending what is negotiated) for ShortfinSee Asia Pacific Defence Reporter (APDR), May 2016 edition, page...
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S-80 - when Program Management and Combat System Integration go wrong.
On Navantia website. "Main electric motor installed on board S-81 "Isaac Peral" February 15, 2012 when all was still well.---Both Raytheon and Lockheed Martinhave been selected to compete to be the...
View ArticleThe Last Post?
ON THE BRIGHT SIDE- things have been great guys- pageviews have never been higher, averaging more than 1,000 a day. Views come mainly from the US, then Australia, then from the major SSK building...
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Evolution towards the Barracuda SSN
REQUESTSubmarine Matters has had its first request from a Donor: JHM asks - "Can you advise me of the evolution of French submarines that have resulted in the Barracuda SSN?"RESPONSEIn the long...
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DARPA Upward Falling Payloads Program swimming slowly
Above, this chap describes the DARPA Upward Falling Payloads project in 2013. It seems a very gradual program. Below in a 2016 newspaper report.---On May 14, 2016, Mark Prigg, UK DailyMail, excitedly...
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Secret German High Tech Submarine Propeller Covertly Photographed
At great personal risk an agent has taken these rare photos of a complex propeller used to power one of the latest German Type 212A submarines. Natürlich the agent's modus operandi remains forever...
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Turnbull's Vote-Magnet Shipbuilding Promises are Labor Proof
(Flow-chart courtesy The Daily Telegraph based on Defence Teaming Australia advice, mid August 2015). In terms of cost estimates the A$17 Billion might be for a build of just 8 submarines. 12...
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