Fair enough. Appreciate the insight from you and Oldsig. Would the plan be to relocate the entire SSN fleet to a new base in the east coast or split the fleet with some subs still permanently deployed at HMAS Stirling? Just thinking about things like critical mass for training, logistics and maintenance which may make it difficult to split a fleet of 8. Thanks
Perth's a nice place.
Traveled a bit in the west in the 80's and stayed in Perth awhile. It had it's attributes but could not call it home.
Not good or bad, but just like 23 million other Australians somewhere else beckoned.
Perth is remote. Driving there reinforces the challenge of distance.
With a total conventional fleet of six submarines the West makes sense.
It was a major sub base in WW11 and it's geography works for this capability.
As we were to grow Sub numbers to 12 , then some transfer of these assets to the East coast also makes sense.
Now we intend to go nuclear and have a fleet of 8 plus ( Mystery ) subs then I'm not sure how this works on both coasts.
I don't believe we have many visits of nuclear anything so how this works domestically will be interesting
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I once was at the Airshow in Avalon and at the F35 static display someone in the large crowd asked one of the ground crew about why we don't get the F35B.
Obviously asked the same question many times his quick answer was too may moving parts.
He acknowledged it's attributes but quietly and with political tact moved off the subject.
The plane has it's attributes but too dear and too complicated.
I personally don't agree with the F35B challenges, but I do wonder are we really up to the challenges of going nuclear.
Regards S