Australia Long-range missiles, nuclear subs to be fast-tracked as Australia muscles up in Asia

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Australian fighter jets and navy vessels will be armed with new long-range strike missiles years ahead of schedule under a new $3.5 billion fast-tracked package.

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Defence Minister Peter Dutton will oversee a massive expansion in the ranks of the ADF. (Image: AAP)

Defence Minister Peter Dutton said the expedited timetable is being used to deter acts of aggression against Australia.


“The world has been shocked with what we’ve seen in Europe and in Ukraine and we hope and pray that doesn’t spread to other countries,” Dutton told the Seven Network on Tuesday.


“But we’re also very worried about what’s happening in the Indo-Pacific and this is about Australia being prepared and making sure that we can stare down any act of bullying against our country.”


The missiles will be able to strike targets up to 900 kilometres away and will be manufactured by US defence companies Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.

The weapons include missiles for the RAAF arriving three years ahead of schedule and missiles for the navy five years ahead of schedule.


Hi-tech sea mines will also arrive three years earlier under the package.


Dutton said Australia is working towards its own sovereign manufacturing capabilities in the medium term but the quickest way to acquire the missiles in the short term is through US partners.


Raytheon Australia and Lockheed Martin Australia have officially been announced as strategic partners under the $1 billion sovereign weapons manufacturing enterprise.


“We’re trying to establish the industry here and we’re going to do that very quickly and accelerate that as well because we need to, we must,” Dutton said.

Dutton made the announcement as he opened a new $96 million navy guided weapons facility in western Sydney.


The facility will be used as part of Australia’s sovereign guided weapons program ” to ensure we get the maximum lethal capability from our current missile stocks”, Dutton said.


The defence minister also flagged nuclear-powered submarines arriving in Australia much sooner than expected, with the first boat anticipated to be in the water at the end of the 2030s.


Dutton said a major announcement will be made later in the year and the United States and the United Kingdom under the trilateral AUKUS alliance “understand the situation in the Indo-Pacific”.

“I think we can condense the timeline of delivery,” he said.


“But we’ll release all of that detail at the appropriate time.”


The Australian Missile Corporation, a subsidiary of Brisbane-based Nioa, said it had been appointed to the enterprise partner panel for the guided weap0ns enterprise.


“This is the beginning of an eciting opportunity to pioneer a high tech defence manufacturing sector that will create jobs, drive innovation and build critical sovereign capability,” chief executive Robert Nioa said.

 

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Australian fighter jets and navy vessels will be armed with new long-range strike missiles years ahead of schedule under a new $3.5 billion fast-tracked package.

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Defence Minister Peter Dutton will oversee a massive expansion in the ranks of the ADF. (Image: AAP)

Defence Minister Peter Dutton said the expedited timetable is being used to deter acts of aggression against Australia.


“The world has been shocked with what we’ve seen in Europe and in Ukraine and we hope and pray that doesn’t spread to other countries,” Dutton told the Seven Network on Tuesday.


“But we’re also very worried about what’s happening in the Indo-Pacific and this is about Australia being prepared and making sure that we can stare down any act of bullying against our country.”


The missiles will be able to strike targets up to 900 kilometres away and will be manufactured by US defence companies Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.

The weapons include missiles for the RAAF arriving three years ahead of schedule and missiles for the navy five years ahead of schedule.


Hi-tech sea mines will also arrive three years earlier under the package.


Dutton said Australia is working towards its own sovereign manufacturing capabilities in the medium term but the quickest way to acquire the missiles in the short term is through US partners.


Raytheon Australia and Lockheed Martin Australia have officially been announced as strategic partners under the $1 billion sovereign weapons manufacturing enterprise.


“We’re trying to establish the industry here and we’re going to do that very quickly and accelerate that as well because we need to, we must,” Dutton said.

Dutton made the announcement as he opened a new $96 million navy guided weapons facility in western Sydney.


The facility will be used as part of Australia’s sovereign guided weapons program ” to ensure we get the maximum lethal capability from our current missile stocks”, Dutton said.


The defence minister also flagged nuclear-powered submarines arriving in Australia much sooner than expected, with the first boat anticipated to be in the water at the end of the 2030s.


Dutton said a major announcement will be made later in the year and the United States and the United Kingdom under the trilateral AUKUS alliance “understand the situation in the Indo-Pacific”.

“I think we can condense the timeline of delivery,” he said.


“But we’ll release all of that detail at the appropriate time.”


The Australian Missile Corporation, a subsidiary of Brisbane-based Nioa, said it had been appointed to the enterprise partner panel for the guided weap0ns enterprise.


“This is the beginning of an eciting opportunity to pioneer a high tech defence manufacturing sector that will create jobs, drive innovation and build critical sovereign capability,” chief executive Robert Nioa said.



Australia realises the threat she is under by the growing Chinese military and the expansionist policy it is pursuing in the seas around.
One way to counteract is the growth in hypersonic technology. A small company Hypersonix is eyeing to collaborate with US to develop hypersonic weapons.
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A reusable hypersonic dart.
 

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Australia realises the threat she is under by the growing Chinese military and the expansionist policy it is pursuing in the seas around.
One way to counteract is the growth in hypersonic technology. A small company Hypersonix is eyeing to collaborate with US to develop hypersonic weapons.
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A reusable hypersonic dart.
Reusable,how?
Could you explain?
 

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Reusable,how?
Could you explain?
It was originally designed as a means of “green” scramjet powered transport vehicle, operating at the edge of our atmosphere. Hence it would glide back to earth when it completed it’s flight. But as a weapon it can still come back home if not used.
By using Oxygen in the air it doesn’t need to store it and with Hydrogen as fuel it is very efficient. As it is produced using additive 3D technologies, it has no moving parts at all, whereas other hypersonic systems have thousands of parts, many of them moving. This relieves all the complexities current hypersonic vehicles have.
And because you can turn on and off, it could skip [off the atmosphere]. So, if you can imagine a stone skipping across the waves as kind of what it can do as well. So if you turn it on it will bounce off the layer of the atmosphere. Turn on again, bounce again. And that means it can get huge distances with very small volumes of fuel. And this is over 1,000 kilometers out of one kilogram, and whilst in flight the scramjet extracts Oxygen from the atmosphere resulting in a 60% reduction of weight.
 
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