Ghost Shark drones – “music to Trump’s ears”

The government announced that it has spent $ 1.7 billion on underwater drones on the new ‘ghost shark’. However, the budget seems to have more privacy than capability. Old submarine Rex Patrick Reports.

Pete Quinn must be quite happy.

Quinn was the president of the navy ability for five years. The responsibility in this role was to determine the needs and needs of the Navy’s future abilities and to plan, develop and deliver them to the fleet.

In this role, Anduril Industries (Anduril) succeeded in two limited tenders; One was given to $ 4.9 million in 2021 and the other for $ 77.5 million in 2022.

Quinn left the navy in December 2022, and in January 2024, Anduril started a new job as the Vice President of Strategy.

This week, Defense Minister announced that Anduril will receive a $ 1.7 billion contract for a future navy ability. Boom!

Submarines v DRONS

The submarines perform a wide range of useful peace and war -time military roles.

They can secretly deploy to foreign waters to gather intelligence in peace time.

In times of tension, they can work quietly by supervising an advanced operating area. When the conflict begins, the mines secretly, black special forces, black -hitting missiles, anti -ship operations, and enter the anti -submarin war.

Submarines can perform all of the above functions in a single distribution, the dimensions, the task loads and crews they carry, the crew allow them to react to complex and rapidly changing conditions. It also allows them to deploy their dimensions for a long time for a long time.

The most important features of the port after leaving the enemy commanders are hidden.

Underwater drones, even those with ‘big’ are much smaller than submarines, and therefore can usually be configured for only one task at only one time. Their durability can sit at the bottom to maintain repulsive energy energy, but are limited to the energy they can carry in their small bodies.

This restriction is a main reason why they are often accepted in long distances, which are an easily seen activity unless they are initiated from surface containers closer to the target.

Since high -frequency radio waves cannot penetrate water, they do not have the same connection as human operators such as underwater drones and air drones. Underwater drones should be relatively autonomous or regularly surfaced to communicate with controllers.

Underwater drones can play and play a role in the underwater battle area, but they are not as close as ‘crew’ submarines.

Hidden budget

Very little is known about the ‘Ghost Shark’ drone purchased by the navy. We know that it is about six meters long and about two meters high, and our government will buy “dozens of” for $ 1.7 billion.

The US navy has a large underwater drone, which is about 16 meters long Boeing and Huntington Ingalls Industries (HHI).

Unlike the ‘ghost shark’, which will require some kind of ship for further distribution and rescue, there are 6,500 miles of ‘orca’ and therefore ‘swim’ from a home or forward port. The US Navy recently paid Australian dollars more than $ 400 million for five of them, including repeated engineering costs.

While MWM believes that Australia is worth paying a premium for its designed and built defense capability, it is difficult to reconcile the price difference between ‘ghost shark’ and proven ‘orca’ drone compared to ‘Ghost Shark’ of Orca.

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Lapdog politics

You can imagine that managers in Anduril’s private US parent company will be very pleased with Quinn’s work.

So is President Trump.

The Trump administration defends Australia to double the defense expenditures.

‘Ghost Shark’ announcement will be music in Trump’s ears. To make boot with defense expenditures and a US company.

The announcement pioneered the visit of Prime Minister Anthony Arbanese to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly. Perhaps the price to be explained for ‘ghost shark’ will serve as an incentive for Trump to meet him?

It was too much ‘he or not’ in relation to a meeting. Australia will probably be the second to get to know the Palestinian state. However, a generous ‘ghost shark’ contract could not harm Albanian’s expectations.

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Rex Patrick is a former senator of South Australia and a submarine in the armed forces. Rex, known as the best fight against corruption and transparency crusaders, “Transparent warrior. “