Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Warfronts" channel.

  1. What makes you think Western nations are any better? I'm Australian we had a deal to buy submarines form France and it was claimed they were too expensive at $90 Billion so we did a new deal with America that's got a budget 3 times that. I'm an engineer and when I looked into it there's at least $150 Billion that's unaccounted for as in there's no explanation of where any of that money is going. Right now we are spending almost $4 Billion on upgrades to one of America's ship yards WITHOUT ANY EXPLANATION WHY? We are buying new Frigates based on the latest British design but ours are costing 3x what the British ones are and again that's without any explanation. And those are just 2 examples. I'm certain others will have plenty.
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  2. OH HELL NOT ANOTHER Simon Whistler channel we he rants on about stuff he doesn't have a damn clue about. HOW MANY OF THESE CHANNELS ARE THERE AND HOW MANY DO I HAVE TO BLOCK
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  3.  @ericwood3709  He makes that mistake because he's just a BULLSHlT YouTuber who pumps out video after video after video across a bunch of channels every day. His business model is NOT being factual but BULK NOISE. Its the new media paradigm. Don't bother with truth, fact checking or integrity. Just keep pumping out video after video after video hoping you generate enough clicks to make money.
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  4. ​ @MostlyPennyCat  TO YOU AND EVERYONE ELSE who have never done any engineering costing let me give you a basic lesson. First AU$ means Australian dollars and US$ means American dollars. I am an engineer with over 30 years works in industrial control systems, automation and robotics across a number of industries. My general my employers expect me to be able to justify the costs of projects and get them value for their money. So working out what various bits and pieces cost is part of my job and there's nothing special about that as EVERY engineer eventually learns how to cost projects. By cost we don't just mean what's in the catalogue but what it costs to deliver and install and maintain. This also has nothing to do with any industry or monetary amount because its the same basic process EVERYWHERE. But you always start with the basics and here's the basics. The British Navy is paying AU$1.5 Billion per Type 26 The Australian Navy is budgeting AU$5.1 Billion per Hunter-class based on the total AU$46 Billion project cost for 9 of them. So my first question is what is that extra $3.6 Billion per boat for? For perspective and in 2024 valuations An Arleigh Burke-class destroyer has a cost of US$2.2 which is AU$3.3 Billion. At an export cost of US$4 Million (AU$6 million) each that AU$3.6 Billion would buy 600 Tomahawk cruise missiles. So that extra AU$3.6 Billion isn't for the American stuff. You can't simply triple the cost of ANYTHING with a few changes. We are simply being ripped off and our government is being taken for suckers. The real question is where is the money going? There's nothing new in this. I see it all the time in industry. I've worked for companies I knew were ripping the client off and been threatened with losing my job to keep quiet. The bigger the company the worse it gets. Smaller engineering companies have to deliver value because they operate in a competitive space. Larger engineering companies have almost no competitors. Look at where Boeing is now that they have no US competitors in commercial aviation since the demise of Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas in that space. They've gone from being the best aircraft manufacturer building the safest planes to the current disasters. If you want an explanation of the ways these large engineering companies rip their customer off let me know.
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  5.  @Chenzooo  Read the answer I gave James Neave. Plus there is nothing cheap about marine grade aluminium or steel AND there's few suppliers with similar costs. Raw materials cost what they cost and apart from the shipping costs around the world they are pretty much the same everywhere. Even the Chinese stuff isn't that cheap because they still have to pay market prices for the raw materials.
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  6.  @badluck5647  Buddy let me put it this way. I'm an engineer and do project costing plans for a living. If Australia had simply bought the French Subs with nuclear power and all the exact same stuff the French Navy has then 12 subs were going to cost about AU$30 Billion. If you then add in the cost estimates for port upgrades to handle the maintenance that was going to climb to between AU$45 and AU$50 Billion. AND YET we were going to pay AU$96 Billion for less capable subs. Can you explain what that other AU$46 was for? If we simply bought 8 Virginia class subs that would cost $40-$50 Billion depending on the options of things like the VPM Module. Virginias are about AU$5.5 Billion each baseline. The LOW END of AUKUS has them costed at AU$33.5 Billion each and the HIGH END is about AU$46 Billion EACH. I've checked the costs of weapons and running costs and even estimated the costs of decommissioning and burial and none of it comes close to explaining anything. When you can explain the extra AU$28 Billion FOR EACH SUB then you can tell me what I don't know.
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