Comments by "" (@pwillis1589) on "‘No evidence’ Australia’s warships have counter drone capacity: Peter McGauran" video.

Factually incorrect. Our warships are equipped with exactly the same weapons and defensive systems that the US warships have used extremely efficiently. You clearly have no knowledge of the subject so why did you comment? Research ANZAC class frigates and ESSM. Then either delete your comment or admit you were wrong.
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@bestestusername Factually incorrect. Both ANZAC and Hobart classes are equipped with a wide range of missiles and systems to defeat missiles and drones. This list is SM2, ESSM, 5 inch cannons, CIWS, and a range of active and passive ESM and ECM systems. Our warships have exactly the same weapons the US Navy has used to shoot down Houthi drones and missiles.
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100% correct and CraigLaubscher literally hasn’t got a clue our warships are equipped with SM2, ESSM, CIWS, as well as a suite of passive and active ECM.
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@pommiebears An idiotic comment. The Defence budget was actually increased under the Labor budget. Your comment is either ignorant, a deliberate lie, or some other mixture of uninformed misinformation. Your comment is factually wrong and demonstrably so. Please dare me to, because i can provide the last defence budget paper that clearly demonstrates your lie.
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@bestestusername You misunderstood my comment. I was not suggesting that they deploy, only that if they did they would be capable. ESSM provide a medium range AD capability this is demonstratively proven by there current use by US warships. They are perfectly capable of defending themselves and any merchant shipping allocated to defend. While one must respect the enemies capability you significantly overvalue it.
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You have been misinformed by Skynews. Our warships are armed with RIM 162 ESSM. These missiles are exactly the same ones the US navy has been using to shoot down Houthi drones and missiles. Our warships also have a wide suite of ESM and ECM systems both active and passive. They are fully capable of defending themselves.
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Don’t listen to this idiot. Our warships are equipped with a range of active and passive weapons systems to defeat drones. In fact the exact same ones that the US navy has already used. You have been deliberately misinformed by Skynews.
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@CraigLaubscher So I'm not privy to the advice provided to the NSC, but I would suggest the public announcement that our naval assets are required here in our own region is a fairly honest assessment by the current government. Remember it was a conservative government and Dutton as defence minister that withdrew our warship stationed in the Gulf three years ago. That's what they said then so it seems reasonable to me.
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ANZACs have ESSM as well and Hobarts SM-2
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Our warships are also equipped with passive ECM, which can distract and nullify missile and drone attacks.
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@edwardness7497 Right sorry i thought you meant individual warship capacity. The request was informal and was from the US Navy as was more a request for political support than anything. We have provided that support and fully supported the attack on Houthi infrastructure by US and UK Tomahawks. This is currently being backed up with bombing missions. The Houthis won't even be able to manage to throw a rock into the Red Sea.
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The bloke is an idiot, our warships are equipped with ESSM and SM2 which the UK and the US have already used effectively to shot down drones and missiles. He literally hasn’t got a clue about our warships capabilities. You have been misinformed by Skynews.
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@buildmotosykletist1987 I’m sorry that’s makes literally no sense.
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@buildmotosykletist1987 From $46 billion under the last LNP government to currently $49 billion and $52.5 billion in this years budget. Do you just make shit up in your head and spew it out? I do however agree with all your points on how capable our warships are.
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Factually incorrect and demonstrably so. ANZAC frigates are equipped with Mark 36 SRBOC, SLQ-25a, Nulka, Rascal Thorn Steptre ESM, and Telefunken PST1720. Why did you comment when you knew you were entirely wrong?
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It isn’t, the dimwit commentator doesn’t have a clue. Our warships are equipped with exactly the same missiles the US navy has used to shoot down Houthi drones and missiles. You have been completely misinformed by Skynews morons.
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@muzzleflash1 We have logistics systems in place that would enable in theatre re-supply. No need for the ship to leave the gulf whatsoever, if it was deployed. No refit required, re-supply and re-arming at sea.
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@thegaffster Thanks for that info. It's makes little difference other than a slight twek in the logistical supply plan.
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ESSM (the E in ESSM is evolved) a minor technical point but you are exactly correct. In my opinion this argument about cost is pure “BS”. You are protecting and defending $trillion worth of trade and $billions worth of warship, a $million to us is nothing. Australia pissing that up against a wall on a Saturday night. Even if we shot off 100 ESSM it would be literally nothing compared to the $trillion in trade being protected. This knobhead McGauran hasn’t got a clue about our warships capabilities and should have said so, in stead he just looks like a dimwit.
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Well I expect the non gender specific Tomahawks they have just had shoved up their arses may very well have them questioning their lack of diverse pro nouns.
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Well said. This dimwit literally didn’t have a clue about our warships capabilities and yet the Skynews allows this misinformation and the so called journalist made no attempt to question him on this. Pathetic.
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We are currently procuring Tomahawk missiles.
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@DanielSMatthews I was ADF for 35 years and i have only provided information that is in the public domain and easily accessible with a 2 minute internet search. These dimwit conservative politicians commenting on issues that clearly they haven’t got a clue about is pissing me off. There is little equipment on an ANZAC that isn’t in the public domain short of some of the exact capabilities of some of these systems.
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Factually incorrect. Our warships have the latest and current weapons systems that US warships are using to shoot down Houthi missiles and drones.
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@edwardness7497 Nope capacity is easily achieved through logistic systems we have had in place in the ME for 20 years. That is not an issue. Cleary the current government decided our assets are better place for security in our own region.
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@edwardness7497 And as I stated before our warships are capable of deploying and contributing if our government had decided to send them. This was not the reason they were not sent.
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The current Labor government approved the purchase of 300 Tomahawk missiles for our Hobart DDGs early last year approximately 6 months after being elected. Why would you attempt to spread such misinformation?
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