Comments by "" (@pwillis1589) on "'Terrible indictment': Australia believed to be without counter-drone-capable warship" video.

There is no one to blame for any situation. Our frigates are armed with evolved sea sparrow, or destroyers with evolved sea sparrow, standard SAM and CIWS. Evolved sea sparrow RIM 162 have an anti missile capability, fly at Mach 4 and can easily shoot down any sort of drone. You have been misinformed by the twerp being interviewed who clearly has no knowledge of our warships capabilities.
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@EL_Duderino68 well I could mount an argument that resources spent defending Australia does in fact protect children not only from poverty, but allows democratic freedoms, and life itself. My children and grandchildren run free and healthy and in part because I stood on the wall that protects them for 35 years. Should more resources be put into relieving poverty, absolutely. I could name a dozen companies in Australia that had $billions in turnover and didn’t pay a cent of company tax.
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Absolute BS. Both the ANZAC class frigates and Hobart class destroyers have SAM systems extremely capable of shooting down drones. His comment is idiotic and completely uninformed. Our DDG have CIWS as well. How does Sky allow these dimwits to comment?
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@Daniel.P.2024 You are talking about 12% of world trade that amounts to well over a $trillion. $1million on a missile or even dozens of them is bees dick comparison. Once the US locates the drone infrastructure and Mr Tomahawk turns up its game over Houthis anyway.
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Attacking commercial shipping is not defending their territory you dimwit.
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@Iamantifeminism2021 You dimwit. Australia warships have been deployed to the Red Sea since 2001 and had only been withdrawn in 2020. Not a single one suffered any damage.
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@Nathan-ry3yu The original comment was about capability not affordability. Your comment is irrelevant, but let's just compare the economies of Australia and Yemen to see just who can afford what. Yemen GNP $88.59 billion Australia GNP $1.43 trillion Houthi defence budget $ less than $1 billion Australian defence budget $52.5 billion. Your comment is comedy gold in its stupidity.
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@user-sy8ju9ey1l And they all appear to be stuck up your lower colon. That’s your arse in case you don’t know.
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So why would the price of goods double. This would only be the case if 50% of the cost of an item was its shipping cost and then only if the distance was doubled which it isn’t by going around South Africa (depending on its destination of course). Yes there would be an added cost but claiming a 100% is nonsensical just making shit up stuff.
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@jefftysoutube In what way? Any shipping that has to reroute around South Africa will incur extra transportation costs. I see no benefit to anyone with international shipping being disrupted.
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@grannyannie2948 Yes. Some shipping are already rerouting around South Africa and this is already hitting the Egyptian economy as they rely on fees for using the canal. The bean counters will be at work estimating the risk reward of going through the Red Sea v around Africa.
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Nobody will, because you are correct both ANZAC class and Hobart class are fully capable of defending commercial shipping and themselves from drone attack. Both classes are equipped with RIM 162 evolved sea sparrow SAM. These missiles fly at Mach 4 and can easily shoot down any drone. They even have an anti missile capability.
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Our ships are equipped with SAM fully capable of shooting down drones. You have been misinformed by the interviewee, who clearly has no knowledge of his own countries defence force.
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You have been completely misinformed, both of our frigates and destroyers are equipped with SAM fully capable of shooting down any drones. ANZACs and Hobart class are equipped with Evolved sea sparrow and our Destroyers have Standard SAM. This commentator is an uninformed twerp.
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@EL_Duderino68 our warships are perfectly capable of defending themselves with a wide range of active and passive defensive measures against drones. They are equipped with RIM 162 evolved sea sparrow SAM. These missiles have an anti missile capability, fly at mach 4 and can easily shoot down the entire range of drones being used by the Houthi. The twerp being interviewed here is an uniformed dufus.
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@Nathan-ry3yu To add to the nonsensical nature of your comment, a sea sparrow missile which does cost approximately $1 million is being used to protect a $billion warship plus 160 odd Australian lives so $1million is nothing.
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@Nathan-ry3yu Again to add to the nonsensical nature of your affordability argument. I’ve done some research and 12% of world trade goes through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea that amounts to over US $1trillion, and your concern is $1million, your point is literally laughable.
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@andrewsmith8729 Compared to the international shipping trade that moves through the Suez canal 500 ESSM fired off to protect the lives of merchant seamen is insignificant. Your argument about cost is nonsensical. Attacking defenceless commercial shipping is an illegal act. Once the Houthi infrastructure is identified it will be vapourised by a wave of Tomahawk missiles and life can go back to normal, except the Houthis of course, they will be back in the Stone Age.
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@andrewsmith8729 All you have commented on is to observe what has happened. Any dimwit can do that. You offered no solution. Houthis are not just attempting piracy they are also attempting to use armed drones as missiles. I don't give a flying fuck if, as you correctly point out the Houthis are using Yemeni territory, if the Yemeni government can't fix the problem then the US and a multinational force will.
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@Daniel.P.2024 So your answer is yes they are perfectly capable of defending themselves and commercial shipping. The cost of a ESSM is pissant when compared to the cost of international shipping and trade and the lives of the sailors and merchant seamen. These dimwits don’t know want they are talking about. There talking points have shown to be nonsense and they are annoyed by logic.
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The dimwit being interviewed is a complete dufus. Our warships are equipped with exactly the same missiles that the US used to shoot down the drones. You have been misinformed by this skynews knobhead.
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Our frigates and destroyers are armed with the same RIM 162 and Standard II missiles that the US ships are using to shoot down drones. The knobhead being interviewed here is a complete dufus who hasn’t got a clue about our current warships capabilities, he is merely anti anything the current government is doing.
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@grannyannie2948 A number of reasons. Firstly, the LNP government under Morrison and Dutton withdrew the warship we had on security duties in the Red Sea in 2020. That asset has been redeployed to our own region to provide security. The multi national task group that will support a US carrier group has already sufficient warships. A policy decision has been made by our government to prioritise our own region ahead of the Middle East. Seems reasonable to me.
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