Re: Got a spare 1/2Mill ?

[Belta]

Originally Posted by TrickyD

Nice and cheap to run!
98000 US gallons of aviation fuel * 3.785 = 370930 litres @ $1.50 =$556395.00 Au to fill up each fishing trip.

there goes my 1/2 Mil $

[Basie]

Originally Posted by EnglishBob

It would also be suitable for New Zealand invasion plans I think

Just send over one of those Collins-class submarines of yours. We'll be quite happy to watch it run aground on Farewell Spit with an expensive-sounding CRUNCH due to failed navigation and engine systems, as we look on and laugh from the beach.

Then the usual round of hearings and commissions of enquiry will keep you all occupied for the next decade or so...

[Janus]

Actually.. from what I hear (brother in law works in Defense), the Collins Class submarines are now excellent vessels, after the initial teething problems were rectified.

In a recent set of war games with the US Navy, the Collins class subs acquitted themselves so well that the US Navy was running out of combatants, and had to resurrect a few of them.

Only problem with them is that Australia has built these world leading diesel-electric submarines at a huge cost - and now what are we going to do with all the investment, technology and infrastructure? We're not selling the Collins subs to anyone, and we're certainly not building up a huge submarine fleet...