Guru
Joined: 26/09/2020
Location: AustraliaPosts: 602
| Posted: 10:26pm 27 Sep 2021 |
My main problem is that the government did not ask Australians if we wanted to go nuclear.
Submarine bases are in capital cities. HMAS Platypus is smack dab in the centre of Sydney. So what happens if something goes wrong. A leak of radiation will make the Harbour and much of Sydney contaminated.
Or if an enemy attacks they will bomb the navy bases first. There goes much of Sydney with Garden Island and Platypus flattened.
Really what use is a Submarine anyway. In naval exercises our clunky old Collins class diesel subs have repeatedly managed to sneak up and destroy US nuclear subs.
The Nuclear subs are much noisier than battery run conventional subs.
Then you have to find some poor lunatic who wants to stay under the ocean for months at a time, not seeing sunlight or breathing fresh air.
We already have trouble finding enough canon fodder to man our subs.
Our coastline is so big that Subs are actually pretty useless. By the time they get to where they are needed the whole thing is over. If they were flying subs that could rapidly get near where needed then submerge maybe they would be useful.
But they aren't they are just like tanks, designed to be scary but really not much use.
We would be much better off, filling the coastline with missiles. That way we could actually protect ourselves
Pete