Royal Australian Navy Discussions and Updates 2.0

[old faithful]

re: potential drone attacks....if shipping containers full of black market cigarettes can make it on shore, I am positive that shipping containers full of drones could to.
This makes a land based drone attack against infrastructure a real possibility, and as has been pointed out, we dont have any real (publiclly released) anti drone capability. I hope there is some sort of EW answer to that problem?

 

[ADMk2]

re: potential drone attacks....if shipping containers full of black market cigarettes can make it on shore, I am positive that shipping containers full of drones could to.
This makes a land based drone attack against infrastructure a real possibility, and as has been pointed out, we dont have any real (publiclly released) anti drone capability. I hope there is some sort of EW answer to that problem?

Of course there is.

We just haven’t bought any…

 

[ADMk2]

Anduril Altius UAS launcher as fitted (and fired) from a Ghostshark.

As suspected the vessel has to all but surface to launch these. 22x per craft seemingly from twin 11x round launchers…

Taken from an Anduril vid of socials. Not of course from ADF…

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"Ghost Shark has teeth now." - @PatConroy1, Australia's Minister for Defence Industry. The @ausgov and @Australian_Navy confirmed the payloads that our Ghost Shark extra-large autonomous submarine carries: sea mines, logistics caches, and air-launched effects for ISR and strike. Ghost Sharks are…

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[iambuzzard]

Anduril Altius UAS launcher as fitted (and fired) from a Ghostshark.

As suspected the vessel has to all but surface to launch these. 22x per craft seemingly from twin 11x round launchers…

Taken from an Anduril vid of socials. Not of course from ADF…

Anduril Industries (@anduriltech) on X

"Ghost Shark has teeth now." - @PatConroy1, Australia's Minister for Defence Industry. The @ausgov and @Australian_Navy confirmed the payloads that our Ghost Shark extra-large autonomous submarine carries: sea mines, logistics caches, and air-launched effects for ISR and strike. Ghost Sharks are…

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Impressive. Someone is doing their job.

 

[hauritz]

Anduril Altius UAS launcher as fitted (and fired) from a Ghostshark.

As suspected the vessel has to all but surface to launch these. 22x per craft seemingly from twin 11x round launchers…

Taken from an Anduril vid of socials. Not of course from ADF…

Anduril Industries (@anduriltech) on X

"Ghost Shark has teeth now." - @PatConroy1, Australia's Minister for Defence Industry. The @ausgov and @Australian_Navy confirmed the payloads that our Ghost Shark extra-large autonomous submarine carries: sea mines, logistics caches, and air-launched effects for ISR and strike. Ghost Sharks are…

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Short little video tells you a lot. A conventional submarine stays submerged to fire weapons. Clearly not an issue with UUVs. It surfaces, establishes satellite coms, gets its firing solution, fires it drones or weapons, dives as deep as 6000m to escape detection. Repeat as necessary.

 

[spoz]

Very little seems to have actually been released on Ghost Shark’s actual performance; what is around the net seems to be speculation. Whatever, it is not taking those UAV launchers to 5,000 metres - or anywhere near it.

 

[StingrayOZ]

Very little seems to have actually been released on Ghost Shark’s actual performance; what is around the net seems to be speculation. Whatever, it is not taking those UAV launchers to 5,000 metres - or anywhere near it.

I think that huge depth is a very theoretical number. IMO Andril sometimes seem a bit boastful.

Honestly this is probably something that is working in the 0-100m zone a lot. It can surface, sat com its data and readings when its a nice quite period in the middle of the night in the middle of an ocean or near clutter. Sensor, report, move etc.

The drone looks a little small. Does it have sat communications capability?

I am happy its doing its job, as we have a particular short fall in sub capabilities currently and going forward.

 

[StevoJH]

I think that huge depth is a very theoretical number. IMO Andril sometimes seem a bit boastful.

They are still a quite young company with very low revenue for the number of area's they are playing in.

It will be interesting to see if they can actually deliver what they promise, and whether they manage to stay independent or get swallowed up by one of the established players.

They are still a very small company relative to BAe, LM, RTX, Boeing etc.