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Australias Unofficial naval strategy is "bomb the shit out of scary boats with Growlers".

Australias Official naval strategy is "We need more boats for reasons (cough asylum seekers cough), definitely not because it is politically expedient to keep boat builders employed"

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Australia's naval strategy is to defend our sea lanes that we rely on for trade, primarily our trade with our largest customer, which is China.

Conveniently, they need what we have, and we want what they make.

On the other hand, the primary strategic threat is apparently also China.

https://youtu.be/sgspkxfkS4k?si=9n6fTPusYI9jcUhj

Well I doubt they'd be using Growlers, but even if they needed to they cost too much ( $80 million a piece ) to be thrown into modern naval air defences, and don't have the range to be deployed where they could actually reach ships causing trouble.

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