The freedom of navigation exercise proposed by the U.S. in the South China Sea has a few problems. First it is coming out of nowhere. What should have been done is that this should have been a routine occurrence every 3 or 4 months for years.
Don't forget also that the carrier air wing today, is obsolete against this threat. Telegraphing a new one-off event means that every available PLAN sub will be somewhere around. Search aircraft. SAM umbrellas.
And so on.
A littoral combat ship has been in the region so, no-fear there. Remember. the same people coming up with this idea screwed up the Middle-East and surrounding areas to hell and back.
Confidence.
Australia is looking at new subs, still. As noted, Rudd and Gillard produced lost years. Now, catch up. With a serious lack of IQ in the entrenched Defence bureaucracy.
Japan has never exported a sub before. Germany and France have.
Of interest. What blew the Germans out of the water years ago in bidding for what was today's Collins is that they ignored customer concerns. They thought they knew all the answers. They stated their submission met all the requirements. It did not. The Germans didn't study how the RAN used the Oberons. The evaluation team rightly scored down the German assumptions.
On a different note, I would like to propose to Solomon that we make up our own definition of what a Marine Amphibious Group should be. Its table of organization; outside support; taskings; everything.
Because no one else seems to have reasonable answers.
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