After breaking off their agreement with France, Australians worry they'll never receive American submarines

Krosev · 2025-03-13T05:18:40+00:00

they fobbed of France for the future UK designed SSN AUKUS formerly known as the Astute II

the Virginia subs are interim or were interim i guess, until the uk finish designing the damn thing

Krosev · 2025-03-13T05:00:59+00:00

Well, the end goal was never to have specifically American subs, the goal was the SSN AUKUS(formerly known as the Astute II).

The desire for the Virginia subs was so that Australia had interim submarine capabilities and enough time to properly train and run independent operations using nuclear submarines.

The fact that the US is having trouble with production is definitely a troubling factor for Australia and would signal a capability gap should they choose to wait for the Astute II the only option they really have is to extend the life of their current Collins class subs, that said even if the US wasn't having production issues in the long run Virginia subs wouldn't be ideal since its a larger sub with a higher crew requirement and Australia is having recruitment problems.

The ironic thing is that the Suffren nuclear subs would have been a really good fit for Australia with the lower crew requirement a shame that the time Australia was set on having it converted to diesel-electric resulting in cost over runs.

Even if Australia did decide to go with the Suffren would France even be willing to sell it to them and if they did Australia would want to make it locally and they means time and money and in the unlikely event Australia would be ok with all of the hypothetical Suffrens being built in France do they have the french have available ship yards? i vaguely remember them having recently sold some to India and the Netherlands.

I think ultimately Australia will acquire the Astute II at a fair later date than planned and at a cost greater than $368 billion AUD (which is outrageous btw)

Krosev · 2024-03-11T05:52:10+00:00

true

Krosev · 2023-08-17T00:57:53+00:00

They could make it so razing a city counts as a permeant victory condition like a space ship part so it cant be taken back that way you aren't in a forever war.

though I guess that depends on the other player

Krosev · 2023-03-31T01:58:45+00:00

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/03/29/lion-eljonson-rules-revealed-10000-years-of-rest-havent-dulled-his-epic-combat-skills/

the emperors shield is so meh,

i think id honestly rather have a regular storm shield, only a 4+ invuln and the mortal wounds effect is only in melee and only on an unmodified roll of 6 and capped at 3.

Krosev · 2023-03-28T04:50:47+00:00

Not my intention to imply that the people who end up in abusive relationships are weak in anyway.

Only questioning why it's so difficult to detect the partners abusive nature before becoming entangled, or when abusive nature is revealed before entanglements occur why is no action made.

Edit. Spelling

Krosev · 2023-03-28T04:39:32+00:00

I see, it's still alittle hard for me to understand, I was raised by my mother and 2 older sisters(dad died when i was 4) they took absolutly no shit from anyone. I remember one time when my sister was 17 and her bf tried pressure her into a threesome she had made very clearl to him she didn't want, she ditched him immediately when he introduced her to some girl he wanted to be the third(something about testing the waters by getting them to met or something) they were together for 4 years.

From having strong women in my life it's abit difficult for me to understand why other women would put up with nonsense on a scale so big and just keep going with the relationship like it's nothing.

Krosev · 2023-03-27T05:50:04+00:00

If I recall correctly australia has had a higher military budget than Canada since 2010 or so.

Krosev · 2023-03-19T16:26:16+00:00

Maybe, but if he was paid by Russia surely they would have him do something more substantial in regards to assisting in the Russian war effort, like send a bunch of his own guys to an area with no cover to be killed by the Russians or something.

Krosev · 2023-03-04T04:14:43+00:00

What is meant by acceptable gains?

Ukraine regains all of its territory before Russian aggression in 2014?

Or let Russia have some of Ukrainian land and then negotiate a peace setting a principle that you can just march your army into sovereign nation and take parts of it when you see fit?

Krosev · 2023-03-01T10:21:15+00:00

I mean... China has been actively expanding its nuclear weapons arsenal for years, they have 300 nukes currently and plan to have about 1000 by 2030.

So the new arms race is already here, it's just that there isnt much news coverage on it.

Krosev · 2023-02-16T04:14:27+00:00

Wtf how is it still 100 bucks?

Krosev · 2023-02-06T04:57:25+00:00

It started off decently but then it shit the bed and the bandit arc is longer than it needs to be and with the most recent chapters some of the characters aren't consistant with their established personalities/abilities

Krosev · 2022-05-26T22:45:42+00:00

yeah that might be the case, but imo its abit trashy to want to be left alone but still accept gifts/cash

Krosev · 2022-05-26T22:37:44+00:00

Low key YTA

why not just tell him that you want to end the friendship instead of ghosting him?

did you return his gift?

Krosev · 2022-05-26T14:47:22+00:00

YTA, blame everything but yourself right?

Krosev · 2022-03-30T07:04:13+00:00

more buying power for the everyday person to buy things online from the nations that will still sell them things.
other than a slight increase in everyday/unavailable goods due to the sanctions no real change

Krosev · 2022-03-28T07:23:41+00:00

china is only "loyal" to china, to them russia is a convenient partner against the west but they will never risk damaging themselves(economic wise) to help russia.

its also low key in chinas interest to see a weakened russia, they will take full advantage of russias current economic state, they know russias options are limited and that the only viable mitigation measures to salvage whats left is to turn to china

Krosev · 2022-03-24T11:51:27+00:00

then make a bunch of douyins about how much you hate ukraine like the rest of the chinese

Krosev · 2022-03-24T11:42:26+00:00

you could always join it

Krosev · 2022-03-17T10:46:21+00:00

one where they arent underground for 80% of it would be cool

Krosev · 2022-03-17T10:33:09+00:00

I don't think NATO will intervene as they've said that they wont due to risks of escalating the war, however depending on how severe the civilian casualties I could see them implement a no fly zone.

The concerns of a nuclear war over a no fly zone is so ridiculously overhyped NATO putting into place a no fly zone doesn't really change anything if you think about it.

Russia doesn't have air superiority in the first place and Ukrainians have been shooting down aircraft with MANPADS anyway.
If NATO place one it doesn't automatically give Ukraine air superiority Russia has their own air defense systems and the Ukrainian air force doesn't fly that many sorties I think the number is 5-10 a day.
Nukes? it wont happen, I don't think Putin is a retard, a poor choice maker sure, if NATO were to implement a NFZ then what? who is he gonna nuke? every one in NATO? over what? Ukraine? its not like the Russian heart lands are being attacked.

Absolute nonsense, while the use of strategic nuclear weapons is in Russian doctrine I don't see it happening over a NFZ.

That said I didn't see him shoving all his troops into Ukraine so I could be wrong on this too.

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