How do you defend this? Jets. Tanks Weapons Etc.

>>32005701
A10 for Close Support.
F16 as fighters

Russian Tanks
AK47

That's about it as everything is cheap to produce and easy to maintain unlike the F35.

>>32005701
Emus.

by having a navy strong enough to ensure that no enemy can land forces on it.

>>32005701
submarines

>>32005701
Aggressive shitposting. Make no invader want to deal with the populace.

>>32005711
If japan is part of the west because they beat russia, does that mean emus are part of the west because they defeated australia?

>>32005714
>by having a navy strong enough to ensure that no enemy can land forces on it.
What about paratroopers

Utes. Fucking thousands of up armoured and heavily armed utes supported by their road train motherships... I'm talking second Toyota War, a war to put Mad Max to shame

>>32005733
>Toyota War
Australia doesn't produce Utes anymore.

>>32005724
Those are only good when used in conjunction with a regular invasion to create a temporary front further inland to provide enough time for the vulnerable period of the main landing to secure the beaches.

>>32005735

Nah but you get the picture

>>32005737
So.

If your enemy has a supieror navy and cannot be beaten in sea battle, you send in a massive airforce to fly above.

In short.

Fight were your enemy is weakest.

>>32005701
Easy, remove all wells from the outback, emplace small hit & run cells with fast moving armour to impede progress, and air superiority. Then when they have driven their lines far enough into the desert, you counterattack their captured port, surround them, and let them bake in the outback.

>>32005701
Australians

>>32005701
While the invasion force is crossing days of literally nothing to get to any target of worth, bombard them with Pine Gaps orbital lasers

>>32005701
The local flora, fauna and shitposters.

>>32005701
The local wildlife.
And flora

>>32005701
Only the coasts matter, there is literally nothing else out across the wide wastelands of Australia, if they want it they can have it, it's as desolate as Siberia.

>>32005724

Ooohhhhhh noooooo, a couple of thousand light infantry dependant on air resupply, how terrifying.

>>32005743
That will accomplish nothing if you cant land troops. Air power only exists to support ground units.
>muh strategic bombing
missiles do this better, you cant defend indefinitely. Defense exists to prevent your land from being invaded. An enemy committed to a war will need to be counter attacked, which also requires a powerful navy to land your invasion on their territory..

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>>32005724
>What about paratroopers
Luckily, refugees don't have paratroopers.

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As soon as they encounter one of these fuckers, they;d leave in real hurry.

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Naval defence

Blue ringed octopus

>>32005949
Probably this.
There was a thread about invading from Indonesia, landing troops that way. Those troops would have to make it through over 3000 kms of Australian outback before they even reached one of the highly populated areas, let alone the capitol.

That distance means you're spending an awfully long time in what must be one of the most inhospitable environments in the world. I'd also have thought you would be very exposed to strikes by Australian special forces who have trained in that environment and know it much better than you will, as well as airstrikes since there isn't really anywhere to hide out there.

Bogans

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>>32005747
Leave wells intact.
>Poison them.
>Curse them with lvl17 Coonism from Dennis 'n Moreton
>Booby trap with Dropbears and Hoop snakes.

Non 'Strayan detected, gtfo.

>>32005747
So, basically NORFORCE which is already a thing and has been for about the last 35 years

>>32005949
They're not a particularly cranky snake, if you trod on them or bothered them they'd bite of course, but not nearly as bad as the brown and king brown's. They will go out of their way to fuck your shit up and venomous enough to kill adult humans within 30-60min

>>32005709
>F16

There's a good reason we chose the F/A-18 over the F16. I'd suggest researching how large Australia is.

Fuckhuge Spiders.
Smaller, poisonous spiders that hide underneath toilet seats.
More poisonous spiders that hide in any crevice
Orb spiders the size of dinnerplates.
Bird-eating spiders the same size.
Scorpions.
Snakes.
Sea Snakes.
Scorpion fish.
Sharks.
Crocodiles.
Cassowaries.

Australia is already equipped with the most effective anti-human defences on the planet.

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>>32006093
weaponised seashells

>>32006151
>>32006093
Don't forget blue-ringed octopi and stonefish, the depth charges of rockpools and river inlets.. Touch one and experience the pain.

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>>32006510
urotsukidoji, too

>>32005943
>airpower only exists to support ground forces

Patently false, especially considering the maritime roles of aircraft. Which is another reason why Australia went with the f-18 and poseidon. In a defensive role, aircraft are much more flexible and can cover a much larger area.

>>32006682
Navy only exists to support ground forces.

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Do we even have a carrier?
I think all our hornets are land based

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>>32006743
>Do we even have a carrier?
Yep, HMAS Adelaide and HMAS Canberra.

>Canberra-class landing helicopter dock
>helicopter
STILL COUNTS! HELICOPTERS ARE AIRCRAFT!

>>32006708
No.

>>32005711
This
>>32005719
And this...

>try to invade with a superior navy and invasion force
>realise boats are banned in Australia
>get caught by the coast guard and forced to go to an detention camp where you get raped by refugees
There's no winning dude

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>>32007113

>>32006771
No they don't.

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>>32007122

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>>32007132

Since we name all out boats after towns, I can't help but feel we should be a bit more interesting

HMAS Goonoo Goonoo when

>>32007130
Yes, They do.

>>32007145
I'm sorry anon but they really don't. LHDs aren't carriers.

>>32007159
An aircraft carrier is a warship with a full-length flight deck, hangar and facilities for arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.

Retard.

>>32005701
Bushfires.

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>>32007136

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>>32007187

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>>32007209

>>32005701
It defends itself
>no natural resources
>its value as a strategic location is questionable, unless you're warring with the penguins of antarctica
>inhospitable climate almost everywhere
>either dense urban megacities or completely uninhabited bush
>surly and poor local population that doesn't even cooperate with their own government
>surly and venomous wildlife

>>32007172
By that train of thought, the Japan has violated its constitution since the JMSDF has aircraft carriers.

>>32007187
and people complain about dole bludgers using up tax dollars.

>>32007231
We're not talking about Japan. Just get it through your thick skull that they are aircraft carriers.

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>>32007329

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>>32007350

>>32007362
Why have an optic mounted on a removable carry handle? Is it to make aiming easier with the gas mask on?

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>>32007397
>>32007362
I'm not sure but I'd so so

>>32007419
*Say

>>32007397
Yes

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>>32006023
Actually the RAAF didn't want to deal with single engine aircraft after the horrendous time they had with the Mirage, but you are right the F/A-18 Hornet & SuperHornet are both superior to the no longer produced F-16.

That being said the RAAF doesn't have anything that can touch the now retired F-111 in terms of speed, range and payload.

I believe that it would have made better economic and defensive sense to buy a combination of older F-15 and new production F-15s and fitted them with next gen target acquisition packages.

Instead of wasting any money on Hornets/SuperHornets or F-35 aircraft.

>>32006771
We should have ordered two more, one that has Tiger assault helicopters and the other two launch F-35 and F/A-18 aircraft.

>>32007231
Thinking that because you can use weasel words to circumvent a document that an object cannot do what it obviously can.

what's the elevation like on the coasts... you could probably land just about anywhere and set up an FOB.

if it was me I'd lay a bunch of mines on the coasts and in the oceans to start, and i'd probaby put missile emplacements on tasmania so that when and if they try to get to the capital you can barrage them even after all the ground troops are gone

>>32005724
Do you see any bodies of water on that continent? Only 23 million people live there for a reason. It's the driest place on earth. There's barely enough water to go around. Going inland without supply lines is a death sentence.

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>>32007608

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>>32007668
And yet the rest of the world demands that Australia take in millions of people that wish to go there and for the most part wanting welfare immediately on arrival.

>>32007608
>missile emplacements on Tazy
implying the bogans wont just sell them for scrap money to do bongs with

>>32005946
Got this in a higher resolution m8?

>>32007736
Implying that bogan could dismantle and fence military technology that has no use in an armed robbery.

>>32007709
I can't blame the rest of the world for wanting to send human trash somewhere else, and I won't blame Australia for not wanting them either. No country got great because its citizens packed up and left at the first sign of trouble. They got great because they had hard working people who stuck it out when things got tough.

These refugees spilling all over the world... they need to be told to go back where they came from and to make their own countries civilised, if they want it so badly.

>>32007261
>Australia has them
>we carriers nao boyz
>Japan has them
>t-they're not carriers

how do you even take australia

and even if you do, holding onto it through aussie and emu gorilla warfare would be a special kind of hell

>>32007132
>ball sack frigate

>>32007986
Did I say Japan didn't have them? Please learn reading comprehension you chimp

>>32005701

Why would I want to defend it? If any thing, we should level the area, turn it into a giant prison colony again. We pay like 40k a yr to house one inmate. Just send them all there and keep the money.

>>32008113
Do that and they'll become a superpower

>>32005701
How do you defend it?
From a realistic Northern threat just a fuck huge interdiction fleet of corvettes destroyers and cruisers. In the case of a ground invasion just hold air superiority and (chinese) logistics would be swallowed by the out back before they'd be able to deliver any of their rice.

From a hypothetical threat from any side have a huge logistics heavy fleet of aircraft carriers and interception groups, fuckloads of Ewar to attempt to corral the attack to just one direction and in the case of a ground invasion you're basically fucked and it comes down to numbers when it's from every side at once or from a side that you're not expecting.

>>32007232
Super Hornets were more expensive to acquire per-plane

you can't invade australia
it'll just be desert mad max guirrella warfare.
gasoline huffed abos will be sent in as berserkers, cleaving a way through the enemy for the guirrellas to pour in and mop up the damage.
the aussies could ride emus in to battle. no longer would they have a rivalry, they would team up to fight the invaders.

>>32005865
Ah the three-tiered defence plan with the boot as backup.

Cheers cunt,

From a shitposter

>>32005711
See thread.
How far into it before someone says emu I wonder.
Open up, second post.
Well done.

>>32005973
The reason Indonesia landing troops is infeasible is that they have no way of maintaining the air or naval superiority in order to do so. That's the conclusion that thread came to at least.

>>32007533
>Tigers

Aren't those getting retired early because they're shit?

>>32011501
They reckon spare parts take too long to be shipped. The ah1z is a possible replacement.

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light mechanized divisions.

>>32012061
Should fit the requirements. Maybe sell the Tigers back to the French as well? I think they're looking for more of them to fill out more squadrons.

>>32005973
>That distance means you're spending an awfully long time in what must be one of the most inhospitable environments in the world.
Reminds me of how when the nips drew up plans for conquering Australia during WW2, they had drawn up a map with the country divided up into prefectures, and the funny thing is that they had drawn up precectures for the middle of the country.

>>32005701
Boomerangs for air defence

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Snakes, spiders and emus.

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>>32005701

>Invite Amurri/k/unts
>bribe us with free beer
>give us permission to just absolutely fuck up a section of Aus
>mfw said section might as well be nuked because we can't into IFF

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>>32005701
Australia's military is extremely small numbers and weak; third world countries typically have bigger armies, navies and airforces than them.

Manpower---
Total Population: 23,000,000
Available Manpower: 10,700,000
Active: 60,000
Reserve: 44,240

Land Power---
manpower: 28,568 (Regular)14,662 (Active Reserve)
Tanks: 59
Artillery: 75
MLRS: 0
SPGs: 0
APCs: 2,040

Air Power---
Total Aircraft: 417
Fighters/Interceptors: 78
Fixed Wing Attack Aircraft: 78
Attack helicopters: 22
Transport Aircraft: 161

Naval Power---
Total Naval Strength: 47
Aircraft carriers: 2 (Helicopter carrier capable)
Destroyers: 0
Frigates: 14
Corvettes: 0
Submarines: 6
Coastal Defense Craft: 13
Mine Warfare: 6

Go to globalfirepower to compare other countries numbers, they dwarf Australia.

>>32007229
>Australia is the world's leading producer of rutile, zircon, bauxite, iron ore and ilmenite, the second largest producer of alumina, gold, lithium, manganese ore, lead and zinc, the third largest producer of uranium, and the fourth largest of silver, nickel and black coal.

>Australia is the world's leading producer of iron ore, the second largest producer of gold, lithium. the third largest producer of uranium, and the fourth largest black coal.

You what?

>>32015231
Jesus.

It's like they rely wholly and completely on the U.S. and commonwealth forces.

>>32005701
Nuke it from orbit. you don't have to defend what nobody wants.

>>32015261
Even if you combine their active and reserve forces and call it 100,000 that is still not even 1/3 of the size of a lot of other countries active military.

>>32015231
You don't understand 'force projection' do you? It's a small Defence Force with large capabilities compared to its neighbours. Global Firepower doesn't take into account things such as availability of assets, asset capabilities and force projection.

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With WARBOYZ.

Duh.

>>32015296
What large capabilities does Australia have compared to it's neighbors? Even Thailand and Indonesia have bigger military's.

Then a bit further up there is China and North Korea which also have a massive military.

>>32005701
Submarines (with cruise missiles).
Surface combatants (with cruise missiles).
F-35 (with cruise missiles).
Allies (with cruise missiles).

>>32015320
I think he just means despite being small, we know how to work with what we have. Probably.

At least it's probably the best military to join if you want to avoid being shot.

https://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/war_casualties/

>>32015320
Bigger doesn't equate to better. Think of Australia's naval and air power capabilities, not to mention intelligence capabilities when compareded to its neighbours. Indonesian, Thai and Malay forces are reknowed for their incompetence.

>>32015231
>globalfirepower
kys

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>>32015428
>A website collaborates all military information in one place for easy accessibility

>This is bad for some reason.

>>32015428
lol what?

Drop bears

It's the Australian government so they'll make it double illegal to invade us.
Problem solved

>>32015320
Force projection. Indonesia may have a bigger army but not only are they absolutely no threat to Australia itself, they really can't do anything to significantly hamper our interests in Oceania.
Also Australia is about as defensible as a country could be so while on paper our military force doesn't look too impressive in reality it does all we need it to and there are perhaps 2 countries that could have any hope of taking Australia and that's being generous. One of those countries is our best ally.

>>32015231
Doesn't really take into account that Aust's military is very state of the art- modern firearms, ships, planes, body armour, night vision, comms and vehicles.
Also doesn't take into account the force multipliers like a massive over the horizon radar array which covers 1000's of km and ALL (not just 'some', but all) the USA's early warning defence, missile detection systems and all of the eastern hemisphere's satellite data comes through where?
Australia.

If it comes down to a shitfight, who has actual experience in those 3rd world countries?
Pretty much none of them, Australia has had practical experience in launching amphibious attacks on other countries and 16 years continuous deployments overseas in Oceania, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. They can force-project and maintain some level of doing so, a million 3rd worlder strong army with mid-20th century gear, a mag of ammo each, a weeks training and happy thoughts will get fucked so hard by a modern military their mum's teeth will rattle.

>>32005701


I wish I had my pasta from the thread we had a month or two when the indo's got their knickers in a knot.

Whatever.

There are two options for defending Australia, depending on what the invader does. If they take the shortest approach and invade Darwin/NT, then the army relies on raiding and ambushing and lightning assaults before fading back into the great expanse of fuck all. Meanwhile, Subs, Surface vessels and aircraft are making resupplying absolute hell for an invader. And that's assuming they managed to land an assault force to begin with, as our OTH radar capabilities are second to none. We're gonna see them coming no matter what.

If the invader chooses to hit North Queensland and work their way down the coastal side of the great dividing range for 'easy' access to water and other supplies, this allows the ADF to focus their defences in terrain they know like the back of their hand while the enemies supply train/reinforcements have a longer trip across water where they are vulnerable to attacks.


Realistically Australia needs to make sure it's aircraft and submarines are top notch. They're the two linchpins of any defence from an outside invader. As good as the army may be, they're a small defensive force focused on rapid infantry assaults and equipped as such. We even use our tanks like that, charging out of the undergrowth to shoot shit out of everything in sight before fading away.

>>32015455
Not him, the other guy. It isn't an accurate representation of a country's military capabilities. You could have 500 rusted out T-34s in your inventory, this website doesn't take that information into account. The writers literally went on Wikipedia and started counting and tallying.

>>32015519
>Doesn't really take into account that Aust's military is very state of the art- modern firearms, ships, planes, body armour, night vision, comms and vehicles.

Except it isn't. Australia spends hardly anything on its defense budget comparatively.

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>>32015538

>>32015525
>Realistically Australia needs to make sure it's aircraft and submarines are top notch.

6 submarines
Mostly old aircraft with very few new and what is new is F35's which are dogshit.

>>32015554
Thanks for proving my point

>>32015538
At the moment its around 1.7-18%, it was over 2-2.2% for about 20 years though and they have invested heavily in the air and navy
All of their army got modernised in the last 6-7 years and there is some ongoing purchasing, but they're comparatively cheap. Its really not like some bunch of euro's that spend a pittance and rely on NATO for everything else

>>32015554
>Brazil has a higher budget by 10 million

kek

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>>32006006
>lvl 17 Coonism
Pls explain what that is

>>32015573
>spends hardly any
>more than any of its neighbours and +90% of the countries on earth

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>>32015579
>>32015554

>>32015587
>omitting the fact as soon as it becomes 4 countries above they are those countries are spending double the amount and above that it just keeps getting dramatically higher and higher.

>>32015584
A curse where you start sniffing petrol and burning the flooring of you state housing pretty much dude.

>>32005724
Anti aircraft rockets my bro. Inevitably they will need to be resupplied. Ever heard of Dien Bien Phu? Prime example of airborne failure due to reliance on airborne resup.

Better questions is how do you get enough planes, fuel AND enough airborne troops to mount a large enough assault? They'd have to fly from Indonesia and Indonesia dont have that many paratroopers or planes. China couldn't move all their airborne forces anywhere because they dont have the resources to feed an army that big. Radar, Intel and sattelites would nitify us earl yof a massive airbone armada and give us time to repair. The only place they would be able to land would be the north which is inhospitable. Theres Darwin and cairns, boohoo. All the major cities and commercial areas are in the south. You have to cross tropical rain forests a desert to get there. Australia is the second driest continent on Earth. Foreign soldiers will be exposed to a range of weird diseases, dangerous animals and intense climate.

You'd have more luck invading Russia in winter.

You'd have to come by sea, destroy the RAN then attack from the East against the major population areas, ie Sydney and Melbourne. Move inland to Canberra.

>>32015619
There's 24mil of them
Places like Brazil (200+ mil), Korea (50mil), Italy (60mil), France (65mil) etc have a lot of purchasing power.
I mean shit, India's got 1.3bil and they're spending a bit over half what they are!

>>32015619
The data is there to see idiot, nothing's omitted.
If by comparatively you meant "compared to the top 2 in the world" then yes Australia spends hardly any i suppose.

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>>32015651
Get your logic and common sense out of here buddy.

>>32015651
>Korea (50mil), Italy (60mil), France (65mil) etc have a lot of purchasing power.
>I mean shit, India's got 1.3bil and they're spending a bit over half what they are!
Not to mention these countries are within reach of their historically competent enemies.
Australia have the likes of fucking Indonesia to contend with and they're separated by a sea.

>>32015822
>what is china
>what is north korea

>>32015867
>what is china
Out largest trading partner that is 4000km away with several countries between us.
>what is north korea
>What is Paraguay

>>32015867
China are thousands of km away and the chinks practically own Australia anyway.
When they start invading their more immediate neighbours then Australia should be concerned about China.
And lol at north korea.

>>32015900
NK have the largest navy in the world.

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>>32015915
>NK have the largest navy in the world.
Oh noes! Whatever shall we do?!

>>32015915
And they're just gonna sail in force to Australia because reasons? I'm not too concerned 2bh.

>>32015915
>NK have the largest navy in the world.
99% of which can not be transferred even from one coast to the other.

>>32015915
Us Aussies have experience in blowing wooden boats out of the water.

>>32005701
>grassland
what fucking crackhead made this map?

>>32015968
only in sydney

>>32015977
Probably some sort of ecologist.
If you had ever been out of Sydney you would probably know that there is quite a lot of grass/scrub land and open bush land. Its not all red sand desert with big rocks in the middle.

>>32015977
. . .

Map is fine.

>>32015968
SAVAGE
A
V
A
G
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>>32015977
That's where all the fucking snakes hide.

>>32016033
They should spell it 'grassssland.'

>>32015705
Fine!
The factor people forgot...

>White men
>Short pants

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>>32005701
I defend it with the most powerful Navy that money can buy. Three carrier groups, diesel-electric submarines, minelayers (lots of minelayers) and a small (1-2 brigades) but feisty Marine Corps
second layer of defense is one armored and two mechanized divisions, VERY heavy on artillery and very focused on cross-country mobility, something like South Africa has, but with modern tanks and helos and Russian-tier mobile air defense. this is to try and crush a beachhead.
third line of defense is >>32005733 aka the national guard. pre-emplaced caches of everything, dual-use factories, reservists as cadre, all prepared to wage guerilla war from the bush, indefinitely. periodic training, two weeks per year of riding around in Utes and obliterating boulders with RPGs
fourth and final line of defense is weaponized biologicals. bunyips, dropbears, man-eating spiders, all the gruesome fairy tales, developed in secret and held in reserve. if the guerilla seems to be losing, you go scorched-earth on the motherfuckers.
pic related, air defense.

>>32005701
coastal battery's for anti air and anti ship
land forces concentrated near fresh water sources
let them have the arid parts of the outback

>>32016082
>Land based SAMs
The money is better spent on more naval assets or fighter aircraft.

>>32016082
>the national guard

Australia doesn't have a national guard.

>>32005701
just nuke it, nothing of value will be lost

>>32016082
Fuck off. If we get invaded, I'm going to do worse than sit on my arse, I'm going to be a collaborationist son of a bitch until the minimum happens:

>NFA gets repealed
>Category C & D gets opened up to sports shooters
>less restrictive storage requirements, more rental-friendly safe requirements

That's at a minimum. If they drag their heels, they can fuck off.

>>32005733
You have no idea how much I want this

>>32016106
umm... no? fighters need airbases, airbases can be cruise missiled out of commission, if not outright existence.
anyway the idea is for this armored fist to be as self-sufficient as possible, not to be tied to anywhere in particular, without spending the huge money needed for a network of survivable airbases and the aircraft to fill them.

>>32016128
but it bloody well should

>>32016128
They're called 'Army Reserve'
If you want to be mean you can call them cut lunch killers or chocos

>>32015977

It is grass, but it's really shitty stuff that isn't suitable for normal grazing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triodia_(grass)

>>32005701
the real question is not how, but why.

>>32016148
I agree, but I don't think it'll ever be a thing. I think the anti gun sentiment in Australia also plays into things like this.

>>32016151
US has reserves too though. Australian reserves are not the same as the national guard.

>>32016159
How are they different?

>>32016159
Yeah we generally don't let them out to shoot niggers or uni students.
They amuse themselves by blasting off lots of gubbmint ammo, bogging M113's in creek beds and getting lost

>>32016082
I forgot one thing, sorry
TBM and cruise missile launchers disguised as road trains

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>>32016154
>>32015977

Australia clearly has some green.

>>32016165
US National Guard is nominally controlled by the States, the Reserves are controlled by the Feds.

>>32016165
National Guard is home defense, reserves can be deployed.

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>>32007955
why are they never satisfied with shitting up their own country

>>32016158
probably easier to push through than you'd imagine
here's the thing. these guys would not be allowed to take their weapons home, swiss-style
rather, in case of mobilization, they would each receive the GPS coordinates of a cache of weapons and ammo, along with a general mission profile.
this is how the yearly training would start, btw. you get a text, you decode it with the year's OTP (a "biscuit" that you get for being national guard), you have two days to get where you're told to and do what you're told to, in as surreptitious a manner as possible

>>32016165
US has Reserves as well as National Guard. They are separate.

>>32015249
>those ores

this is making me want to fire up ol' dorf fortress again

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>>32016193
I thought some National Guard units were deployed to Afghanistan?

>>32016335

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/34th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)

Many times.

We put all the abos up north. They will attack any invaders, steal their food and other supplies, and sniff up all the fuel for their vehicles.

They'd get wiped out in pretty short order but that's not really a big deal desu.

>>32015455
Well go ahead and look at the pure numbers. Never take the military rankings at face value. They are garbage. For example sweden is ranked 29th and finland 50 something.

>>32006023
F16 with CFTs have a longer range than F-18. Saudi Arabia is similar to Australia in that they are both large landmasses comprised of wasteland, and they have been using the F16 to great affect.

>>32007519
What was wrong with the Mirage?

>>32016794
it was a mirage of a good aircraft
that is to say it was a pile of shit

we bought 100 of the things and something like 45 were lost, 15 or so people died because of them

hell the aircraft couldn't be refueled either, so we had to weigh it down with a bunch of fuel tanks and so on. it was an objectively poor choice of an aircraft for our country, it was designed to take down bombers in europe not fly around australia.

>>32016811
>>32016794
oh and the mirage never actually entered into combat in australian service over 20 years, so the rate at which they fell out of the sky is appalling

>>32015455
>A website collaborates all military information in one place for easy accessibility

exactly, it's an armchair general's wet dream which gives a false sense of intellect to people like you

>>32005701
why would you want to?

>>32016830
>implying you are superior

>>32016837
Just giving you a warning before you run into Oppenheimer without his trip and look like a fool in front of everyone.

>>32016817
Kind of got to the point they wouldn't take them anywhere near an air show :)

Least we had some legs on the F111 and got some good years out of it, the lack of anything equivalent on the market is a shame. Most of SEA was fairly polite for the simple reason that we could lob 5 tonnes of explosives through the front window of their parliament with an F111 and they couldn't do shit about it.

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>>32016844
>before you run into Oppenheimer without his trip
>44
>pic related
>J. Robert Oppenheimer, c. 1944

How old was Oppenheimer anyway? Dude seemed fairly young, like mid-30s, but still achieved quite a lot.

Makes me think about all the time I've wasted in my life... ;_;

>>32005701
"Hi, America? Know how you're always struggling to bring that earth-shattering firepower to bear because of collateral damage and terrain? Yeah well some cunts just invaded the flattest, least densely populated country in the world. Yeah cheers cunt. Seeya in 15 minutes."
>invading chonks are vaporized as 70 years of American military blue balls are released in the worlds most devastating cumshot
>Faith in military power restored, American civilian society un-cucks itself
>the world is assured another American century
>at no cost to the australian taxpayer

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>>32017387
>Seeya in 15 minutes.

Make that 20, air force crews can't stop masturbating over the thought of an overextended enemy force bumbling around in open country

>>32006006
How do you boobytrap a well with a drop bear? Shouldn't you use an Upbear instead?

>>32017607
Well it's not called a downbear, wouldn't it be called a climb bear?

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>>32017871

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>>32005701

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>>32017909

>>32007986
Ironically, JMSDF Kaga is either almost as long or longer than the IJN Kaga, iirc

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>>32017922

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>>32005701
Build a wall

>>32005701
With global trade agreements and NATO

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>>32017932

>>32006869
>"Boats are banned," say the coast guard
>From their boats
>Point out flaw in their logic
>No choice but to arrest themselves

>>32005709
Shoo-shoo, Mr. Sprey

>>32005733
Do we ride to Valhalla, shiny and chrome?

>>32007231
No, they haven't.

>>32015320
Please kys

>>32015867
>North Korea
>Force projection

lmao no

>>32015320
Kys