yep, customs can turn any loc into a "bonded area" - but for practical purposes....
Royal Australian Navy Discussions and Updates
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Thanks Assail, Voonoobie & Alexsa.
I found a report on the Multi User Barge Ramp Facility that was written for the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works and Paragraph 52 caught my attention:
52. Considerable investigations of tidal movements and the submarine conditions at the proposed site have been carried out during the project design phase, with the objective of maximising the availability of the proposed MUBRF and reducing the requirements for any costly site preparations, particularly dredging. These investigations identified that the Defence requirement for 24 hour, 365 days a year access at all tides could not be achieved without dredging into rock. To avoid this considerable expense, the depth of the channel has been raised slightly. This has subsequently restricted access to fully loaded landing craft for up to five hours per month. However given the additional costs, Defence has accepted this minor operational limitation.
With the recent restrictions placed on the LCM1e carrying the Abrahams tanks I initially thought that it would not be a problem as the replacement LCH would be able to do the heavy lifting.
However, the tidal restrictions being placed on LCM1e when fully loaded (draft of 1 metre) will also restrict access of the LCH replacement if it has a draft greater than 1 meter.
Is this going to be a problem or would other loading solutions be available?
https://www.google.com.au/#q=darwin+proposed+common+user+facility
weegee
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Hey GF could you point me in the right direction on some well rounded and unbiased and most importantly de classified reading regarding the East Timor intervention? I remember it all happening but was to young to pay any real attention to it. What's that saying young dumb and full of ...
I've heard lots of stories about Indo Subs running around trying to scare our boys that is until our subs turned up or USN turning up? Also our F1-11's sitting on the tarmac on high alert etc I just would be interested in catching up on it and you seem to have a fair bit of info on the subject.
Thanks
Nope. RAN has already said no 3 times
sanitised version
East Timor and Australia's Security Role: Issues and Scenarios – Parliament of Australia
IIRC 11 F111's and 8 Hornets + refuelers were rotated through Tindal and Sherger
and on standby
USMC Marine Force Recon operators were on the ground as well and as clearly visible (ie: photographed my the mass media) to any who doubted the US was 'interested' in the operation proceeding smoothly...
t68
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Yep and their was plenty in the crowd when they put on the Xmas concert by John Farnham kylie minouge and Doc Neeson they look a bit shock when They sang "am I ever Gunna see you face again"
not navy but:
Breaking The Ice: Australia's New All-In-One Antarctic Ship Revealed
and damen score another winner
Breaking The Ice: Australia's New All-In-One Antarctic Ship Revealed
and damen score another winner
t68
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Jeez where going all right every replacement vessel bought by AusGov seems to be double to triple the size of the preceding vessel and at 250m AUD, far cry from the days when Biill & Ben were bought
Any news when the aviation training ship will be joining the fleet?
They don't like having one LHD parked at Garden Island. I don't know how they'll react to two!
Those twits should be pumped to have such naval power on display outside their front doors. I honestly don't get what's wrong with them.
They're complaining about the noise and that they spoil their view of the harbour.
If they want them gone then they can shell out to build all the replacement facilities, Not just the dock but also all the other naval facilities dotted around Sydney to a new location.
Until they want to cough up the billions to do that they can suck it up.
I've heard the reasons, but just don't understand the position. Last time I was on the harbour I couldn't be happier than when we were alongside one of the Adelaide FFGs and a pair of Anzacs, one already with CEAFAR and one undergoing the upgrade. These Potts Point drongos have got it backwards - warships improve the view of anything!
You could park an LHD outside my house, granted I might wonder how it got there considering I live on top of a hill in the suburbs, but I'd be stoked all god damn day.
before my daughter went to europe to live she had a flat on the 1st floor of the wharf,
every time I visited her and stayed it was like naval porn for me - I think she was the only one in wooly who got excited at them.
there were some absolute prats living on the wharf, some were absolutely horrified that some bloke with a 4wd with all the fruit on it was parked downstairs next to and amongst the R8's, M5's AMG's and Evoques...
t68
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Well if it's not Navy it will be the cruise ship industry, perfect nimby pov by a place next to something that's been there since day dot then complain and want it gone bunch of Leo Wanker
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpmyw2ZDRfo
There's an annual rock festival in the town where I live (Reading). First held here in 1971, next to the Thames.
On the other side of the river are some expensive houses - expensive because of the location. A stupid git bought one, I think in the late 1980s, & started going to court to get the festival stopped on the grounds of noise & disturbance. He lost every time. Obvious reasons: he knew it was there when he bought the house. IIRC the courts started refusing to hear him, it having been settled & he being unable to think of any new arguments, so he started going to court for the right to bring a case. I think that was eventually barred.
Dickhead, eh? Spent a fortune on cases which any lawyer worth giving money to would have told him were doomed, & stuck with 'em for years. But a dickhead with money. Unfortunately, there are plenty of them.
On the other side of the river are some expensive houses - expensive because of the location. A stupid git bought one, I think in the late 1980s, & started going to court to get the festival stopped on the grounds of noise & disturbance. He lost every time. Obvious reasons: he knew it was there when he bought the house. IIRC the courts started refusing to hear him, it having been settled & he being unable to think of any new arguments, so he started going to court for the right to bring a case. I think that was eventually barred.
Dickhead, eh? Spent a fortune on cases which any lawyer worth giving money to would have told him were doomed, & stuck with 'em for years. But a dickhead with money. Unfortunately, there are plenty of them.
what a dill, any sensible lawyer could argue that he's become a vexatious litigant
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