War threat in Ukraine

[SirRumpole]

Retired Australian Army lieutenant general Peter Leahy says Australia has Bushmasters to spare.

What is Australia's troop carrier the Bushmaster?

Volodymyr Zelenskyy's appeal for Australian-made armoured vehicles has been answered, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirming Bushmasters will be sent to join the fight against Russian forces.

www.abc.net.au

Thanks, I didn't know there were as common as muck, I thought that they may be as scarce as hen's teeth.

 

[Dona Ferentes]

Thanks, I didn't know there were as common as muck, I thought that they may be as scarce as hen's teeth.

Also, now the Hawkei development has advanced to production, there is a new generation truck in the planning stage, to replace the Bushmaster

 

[Craton]

FWIW: Wikipedia has good info re. both the Bushmaster and the Hawkei

 

[Value Collector]

You may not know this, but how many Bushmasters do we actually have, and about what percentage would we be willing to give away, possibly never to be seen again ?

The Australian army operates over 1000 Bushmasters, but they are built in Victoria, I would imagine what ever we “giveaway” would be replaced with new ones or something else fairly quickly.

I know the makers of the bushmaster want to establish export markets, this could be good advertising if they perform well, we might develop exports to Ukraine and other markets later because of this.

 

[SirRumpole]

The Australian army operates over 1000 Bushmasters, but they are built in Victoria, I would imagine what ever we “giveaway” would be replaced with new ones or something else fairly quickly.

I know the makers of the bushmaster want to establish export markets, this could be good advertising if they perform well, we might develop exports to Ukraine and other markets later because of this.

Who said Australian manufacturing is dead ?

 

[Value Collector]

Who said Australian manufacturing is dead ?

As I said, we should focus on the areas we are good at, and people like our military equipment, we should export it.

 

[SirRumpole]

As I said, we should focus on the areas we are good at, and people like our military equipment, we should export it.

If you never try something you never know if you are good at it.

 

[JohnDe]

FWIW: Wikipedia has good info re. both the Bushmaster and the Hawkei

I saw 3 brand spanking new Hawkei’s refueling just outside of Bendigo. A very impressive looking military vehicle.

 

[SirRumpole]

I saw 3 brand spanking new Hawkei’s refueling just outside of Bendigo. A very impressive looking military vehicle.

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Just put electric motors and batteries in them, the public will lap them up.

 

[Value Collector]

If you never try something you never know if you are good at it.

I encourage entrepreneurs and investors to go out and try any business they feel they can succeed at.

I don’t think it’s a great idea to divert these entrepreneurs and investors away from other industries where they may build self sustaining industries into ones that require government support to exist to though.

We have limited financial and human capital in Australia, we need to deploy it rationally.

 

[SirRumpole]

I encourage entrepreneurs and investors to go out and try any business they feel they can succeed at.

I don’t think it’s a great idea to divert these entrepreneurs and investors away from other industries where they may build self sustaining industries into ones that require government support to exist to though.

We have limited financial and human capital in Australia, we need to deploy it rationally.

Yes, well the global economy could well be drawn on political lines in the future not economic ones and that injects a new set of criteria for the 'national interest'.

 

[JohnDe]

Just put electric motors and batteries in them, the public will lap them up.

If you’re into driving something with the bulk of a prime mover, go for it

 

[SirRumpole]

If you’re into driving something with the bulk of a prime mover, go for it

No arguments about parking spots.

 

[Value Collector]

I saw 3 brand spanking new Hawkei’s refueling just outside of Bendigo. A very impressive looking military vehicle.

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I like the 45 degree angle on the windscreen, makes it a lot thicker and harder for a projectile to penetrate, also makes it more likely to ricochet off.

 

[Dona Ferentes]

Just put electric motors and batteries in them, the public will lap them up.

They are hybrid, can operate for 2 hours including movement, on battery power. As a fighting platform. with Vehicle Electronic Architecture, we'll be fighting with laptops and drones

 

[SirRumpole]

I like the 45 degree angle on the windscreen, makes it a lot thicker and harder for a projectile to penetrate, also makes it more likely to ricochet off.

Armoured vehicle design 1.0 .

 

[Value Collector]

Armoured vehicle design 1.0 .

You would think so, but look at the windscreen of the Humvee (and so many others), even the bushmaster is only a 20 degree slope.

 

[Smurf1976]

ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

Gazprom Halts Gas Shipments To Europe​

That sentence says it all.

Assuming it's correct then the economic aspects of this just escalated significantly.

LNG is already trading at extremely high prices on world markets, on an energy equivalent basis it's selling at roughly double the price of crude oil and over 3 times the price of coal, and there's seemingly no unused LNG production capacity anywhere. Now this....

The EU's idea to import LNG by ship doesn't work if there's no LNG available to load onto the ships.

 

[waterbottle]

ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

That sentence says it all.

Assuming it's correct then the economic aspects of this just escalated significantly.

LNG is already trading at extremely high prices on world markets, on an energy equivalent basis it's selling at roughly double the price of crude oil and over 3 times the price of coal, and there's seemingly no unused LNG production capacity anywhere. Now this....

The EU's idea to import LNG by ship doesn't work if there's no LNG available to load onto the ships.

Is there a non zero hedge source to back this up? This is huge for a region dependent on Russian energy...

 

[Dona Ferentes]

Is there a non zero hedge source to back this up? This is huge for a region dependent on Russian energy...

I saw the 'source'. It's hardly news. 01 April was the day the Russians were demanding roubles for payment. They've been supplying " contract only, no spot sales" for months. It's all Argy bargy