{"id":872764,"date":"2026-08-29T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872764\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:46:10","slug":"australias-two-wunderwaffen-cant-both-be-magical-hunter-frigates-and-aukus-subs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872764\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s two \u201cWunderwaffen\u201d can\u2019t both be magical: Hunter frigates and AUKUS subs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rss.com\/podcasts\/the-grumpy-strategists\/3104472\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia\u2019s two \u201cWunderwaffen\u201d can\u2019t both be magic | RSS.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Grumpies return to SAA\u2019s bunker deep in the Brindabella Hills. It\u2019s time to take stock of the $9 billion spent so far on 3 Hunter frigates for Australia\u2019s Navy, with $18 billion still to go. The right time to stop a bad project is now, before more years \u2013 and $18bn of scarce defence cash is wasted. The Hunters are meant to be the world\u2019s best anti-sub hunting ships \u2013 but they still rely on what many other cheaper ships have: a single sub-hunting helicopter with dipping sonar and torpedoes, and they have to move slowly to be quiet when sub hunting. The weapon system has a common and enormous weakness. Australians are meant to be believe two pieces of contradictory magical thinking at the same time: 1. these 3 (yes, 3) Hunter frigates are the answer to finding and sinking any sub on the planet and so will keep our sea lanes safe. and 2. Australia\u2019s future AUKUS subs are the oceans\u2019 \u2018apex predators\u2019 and can\u2019t be found by any adversary system on the planet \u2013 they can hunt surface ships at will and are invisible to anti-sub hunters (like, say the Hunter frigates)\u2026..How lucky is the Australian military to have found two true WonderWeapons\u2026.? <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Grumpies also look at Australia\u2019s counter drone strategy and achievements from the only real performance metric we have: hobbyist drones (and anyone else\u2019s) that want to fly into and over Australia\u2019s most important airbases can do so freely at will, unhindered by defensive measures that aren\u2019t defence personnel closing the blinds\u2026..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s two \u201cWunderwaffen\u201d can\u2019t both be magic | RSS.com The Grumpies return to SAA\u2019s bunker deep in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-872764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}