Icarus, out of whose budget is the $3 billion cost of moving all the infrastructure to Learmonth coming from?
Well if you can show me some rough figures to illustrate how you came up with that figure I will engage with you.
The ongoing fixed costs would be quite high, remote localities usually are, logistics far more difficult however great fishing and diving.
Some would say Perth is isolated as well
What would you say the base contingent would be? 250 people? 400 people? How many lived permanently at the Harold Holt Base at Exmouth?
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Given that the RAAF owns a few transport aircraft then supplies should not pose a problem. Exmouth has supermarkets and is supplied ex Perth so all the systems are in place.
Agreed that Pearce WAS remote. Now the "planners" need to think fifty years ahead. The problem is that they think about as far as the next election.
I don't think anyone was particularly enamoured by the decision to allow the RSAF to train there back in the 90s. I can see the advantages for them but for the RAAF?
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