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@SeanNic @zbz555 @GraceTobin @kirstenrobb The overwhelming majority of those police wear blue uniforms, and drive around in white or other bright coloured cars and have their sirens blaring. People knowing where they are because of Bluetooth is a long way down the chain of issues confronting law enforcement…

Bluetooth-enabled tasers and body-worn cameras, used by thousands of Australian police officers, can inadvertently reveal their real-time location to any criminal with a phone or laptop. By @gracetobin ⁦@kirstenrobb⁩ #ABCInvestigations abc.net.au/news/2026-05-0…

@mking1090 17-8 penalty / six again count might have something to do with it, mate eh?

Sunday morning after a Roosters win and all I'm hearing are Broncos' sooks😂 Down 30-0 but Radley (deservedly) not being binned did it🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ How on earth they feel hard done by, is beyond me. The NRL literally carried them to a premiership last year. It's a good day to be a Rooster

@RetroMoviesDB It’s a supersonic helicopter armed with nuclear tipped Shrike missiles. How could it not go hard?

Kids today will never know how hard the intro to Airwolf goes... (Credit: NBCUniversal)

@jtimsuggs “Some”… Lol. Actually - “most” is closer to the truth.

Wild how this scene from The Last Jedi is legitimately one of the greatest character moments for Luke Skywalker, yet some people online genuinely believe that it ruined the entire franchise.

@RealAirPower1 The training outcomes weren’t designed for the USAF in that one…

Fishbed-bit! Did you know that during exercise Cope India 2004, Indian MiG-21s beat USAF F-15s with a staggering 9:1 kill-to-loss ratio? They literally wiped the floor (or sky) with the Eagles. Of course, these weren't your vintage 60s era MiGs; the IAF's MiG-21 "Bison," with its glass cockpit, data-link, Israeli EW, Kopyo radar, and helmet-mounted sights for R-73 Archer AAMs, was a heavily upgraded beast. These factors, when coupled with the jet's tiny physical size, jack-rabbit acceleration, and of course the talent of Indian airmen, made the IAF Bison a formidable opponent, more than capable of taking on an F-15 Eagle. But... 1/3

@eddit0r @Dr_M_Davis Exactly. The southern part of the country and exactly where Strikemaster would have been based…

@simmons_jay1979 @Dr_M_Davis Edinburgh

Actually, it would have been good to invest in both additional HIMARS with PRsM and GMLRS, AND Strikemaster with NSM for maximum operational flexibility. But, the decision seems to be made.

@Dr_M_Davis Must nice to have this unlimited budget and unlimited human resources where we can have all the nice things…

@eddit0r @Dr_M_Davis Where is HIMARS based again?

@Dr_M_Davis Would be nice to see distributed Strikemaster batteries providing some littoral cover for the southern ports. Rather than the current YOLO we have now.

@I_Skaltsiotis No

Will pac3 sme, be 4packed in mk41??????

@Dr_M_Davis If lack of ASW capability is the issue (SSN’s primary role afterall) and we are looking to @AusAirForce to address it, why is nobody interested in the low hanging fruit of the P-8A? RAAF’s primary ASW platform and soon to be it’s best LRASM carrier? 🤷‍♂️

On the 'B-21s and Australia' debate which is taking off again, I think a better investment would be to focus on increasing long-range strike through distributed networks of advanced uncrewed systems, rather than spending a lot of money to get a small number of very expensive and complex B-21s as a proverbial 'silver bullet' solution. The MQ-28A Ghost Bat is in its early years, but it opens the door for a lot of evolution into a range of different types of uncrewed semi-autonomous systems. One variant that could be developed might be a long-range, high payload, high performance strike system, to be acquired in significant numbers. So, something between where the Ghost Bat is now - a small collaborative combat aircraft - and a larger bomber like the B-21. The goal should be to keep unit and sustainment costs down in comparison to crewed platforms, so we can afford a significant number of Ghost Bats of varying types. Can we evolve Ghost Bat into something akin to an F-111 without a crew on board, and which can carry a range of advanced long-range strike weapons? And do so at comparatively less unit and sustainment cost versus a small number of B-21s? Combining this type of capability with investment into acquiring next-generation crewed air combat systems, for example, GCAP, possibly F/A-XX or even F-47 to replace the F/A-18F and E/A-18G from 2040 seems a better path to me. 🤔

@MickamiousG You’re also ignoring the PRsM and GMLRS weapons for these are going to be made here. The vehicles themselves are the smallest part of this project.

Thales was going to BUILD the Strikemaster upgrades for the Bushmaster HERE in Australia, but the Australian Labor Government has decided to buy HIMARS Systems from Lockheed Martin which are already struggling to supply systems to other nations worldwide. Why the hell do we keep doing this to our industry base that's established here? I'm not shitting on Lockheed Martin, they build a good product, but the capacity to build a Unit in FULL in Australia is something that our military drastically needs. This is a horrible decision for Australia and our Military.

@MickamiousG Because the capability delivered by Strikemaster doesn’t bring enough to the table to justify investment in it.

@lyttle_david @NotWoofers @ColbyBadhwar That’s why you prepare a defence force you see? They didn’t know in 1913 they’d be in a world wide war within 12 months… If we knew exactly what is going to happen in future, everything would be easier, wouldn’t it?

@simmons_jay1979 @NotWoofers @ColbyBadhwar What enemies where?

This is a very good decision for the Australians, who have already invested cleverly in HIMARS and GMLRS. It will be a very valuable tool in their inventory for a multitude of Pacific scenarios.

@lyttle_david @NotWoofers @ColbyBadhwar Firing upon our enemies. The same reason anyone procures a weapon…

@NotWoofers @ColbyBadhwar What are they going to use them for?

@ColbyBadhwar As for PRsM not being approved, that must be breaking news to both @LockheedMartin who have supplied them and the @AustralianArmy who have exercised and live fired them… lockheedmartin.com/en-au/features…

@simmons_jay1979 When did either government say that? PrSM is FMS only.

🇺🇸🇦🇺 The Australian government has announced funding to move ahead with this procurement of 48 more HIMARS, along with the eventual procurement and co-production of Precision Strike Missile. Unknown when the HIMARS LoA will be signed. PrSM does not yet have formal FMS approval.

@ColbyBadhwar Not for project partners.

@PC_Angry @BearJFK And the RAN almost immediately passed on the idea. In fact they went in a complete opposite direction reducing the class from 9 to 6 and went and bought 11x Mogamis instead.

@BearJFK BAE did also offer this to RAN: navalnews.com/event-news/ind…

Since the Australians are building the T26 derived Hunter-class, equipped for AD with Aegis and Mk.41, surely the T83 is simply a larger version of the T26 similar to the Aussies? T26 is a modular design. So surely that’s the best option going forward? Same yards. Same tools. Same production line. @AC_NavalHistory ?

@BearJFK @DesmondFancey Hunters have 32x VLS cells on a 10,000k tonne hull…

@DesmondFancey Honestly, at 12k tonnes there should be 120+ cells. Ticos have 122 on a 9000k tonne hull.

@BearJFK If I were the RN, I would be well advised to stay away from the boondoggle that is the RAN Hunter Class… A 10,000t frigate, no better armed than a Mogami as a Tier 1 air and missile defence vessel, yet is costing AUD $5b a pop? Urgh… No thanks.