kbrockman
"If the general feeling about the European countries in Australia is really that unfavorable , even today, then sure, don't buy any weapons from us, that's your perogative and I respect that."
I doubt what I wrote is the "general feeling", we do have a huge e European population here. It is from the perspective of a white, anglo saxon who heard about the embargo from Vietnam vets and since then my own reading and of course the military procurement stuff ups since I became interested in it - late 1980's onwards and especially those recent and very public fiascos.
As has been posted
"Building here a European boat with an American system and we can't even get the 'blocks' right, hold on tight for that mess."
If we are so small, why do we need to re invent the wheel as above.
Are we facing any threat that is so vastly different from anyone else,
especially the US who deploys the world over, that we THINK we need to design our own ship ?