Australia picks Japan to build $10b frigates after fierce contest

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• MisterFrog@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What gets me is that if we’re gonna have a military, you’d really think it would be strategically necessary for us to have our own ship building capabilities.

  Else, what, a war breaks out and we just twiddle our thumbs if we then need to repair them? What is the point of a military if we can’t provide our own weapons?

  May as well just save the money and spend it on something that improves the material lives of people

  Why are we not employing our own people to build these? Makes no sense, to me at least

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  • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    to me we should have full integration with ukrainian drone manufacturing and tech

    we give them money and weapons they give us knowledge to build our own stuff

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    • MisterFrog@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Indeed.

      Rare point of agreement between us on Lemmy lol (if I’m not confusing you for someone else)

      I’m very anti-war, and a pacifist, but given the world we live in, we need to have our own independent military capability. Independent of the US, UK, or anyone.

      We have everything we need to manufacture all our own weapons and vehicles here, it’ll just require actual government investment, instead of paying private, overseas companies.

      And apparently “big gvmnt bad”, despite us at least getting to vote on it, unlike private companies, or public companies for which you need to be a shareholder.

      Just my 2¢

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