Originally Posted by 500N
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 ?
You didn't "design your own ship".
The AWD is the Spanish F100 design... Spanish-designed hull & basic systems, with the US SPY-1D AEGIS system.
Spain has built 4 successfully, and a 5th is nearing completion.
All the RAN has done is to swap out some radios, etc for RAN-specific units, and ask for a couple-three other really minor changes.
The problems came in when the shipyards stuffed up some basic math, and failed to be able to translate Spanish to Oz-English.