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Aussie Digger
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Always found this concept amusing - "steel is cheap and air is free".I wonder if we could apply the steel is cheap and air is free mantra to the future OPCs and ensure they had a decent logistics support capability to prevent this block obsolescence thing ever happening again. A sort of modern day APD that would provide us with multiple hulls capable of a Company lift, operate a couple of helicopters and carry a couple of LCVPs or CB-90’s and a large multi function space similar to the LCS concept or perhaps even a mini version of the Danish Absalons.
It's true as far as it goes, I guess, but I wonder how cheap it is when all that extra space starts filling with additional capabilities and CDG start to develop "stars in their eyes" at all the additional roles it can take on board, if it has so much space...
All that extra room isn't much use unless you do something with it...