XPost: talk.politics.guns, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, aus.politics   
   XPost: alt.survival   
   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 22:29:43 +1100, Leper  wrote:   
      
   > On 2/13/2023 5:22 PM, Peter Jason wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 07:18:14 +1100, "Rod Speed"   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:59:52 +1100, Peter Jason  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 05:18:36 -0000 (UTC), J D Young   
   >>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Monday it would accelerate   
   >>>>> plans to   
   >>>>> buy advanced sea mines to protect its maritime routes and ports from   
   >>>>> "potential aggressors" amid China's plans to increase its influence   
   >>>>> in   
   >>>>> the   
   >>>>> Pacific region.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Laudable.  But will they also be placed along the length of submarine   
   >>>> cables which could be cut by some enemy, in many locations, so   
   >>>> isolating Oz from the rest of the world?   
   >>>   
   >>> Even if all the submarine cables were all cut in multiple places,   
   >>> we would not be isolated from the rest of the world due to satellites.   
   >>   That is true.  But the cost and queuing would slow things down to a   
   >> crawl.  Presumably use would be rationed to the benefit of we posters   
   >> in aus.politics.   
      
   > But in times of a real war, would those Satellites survive the first few   
   > hours?   
      
   Yep, there will never be a full nuclear holocaust and even   
   if there was, it would never be possible to take out all the   
   satellites anyway.   
      
   > Possibly be the very first causalities. To prevent return missile   
   > targeting.   
      
   Mindlessly pig ignorant. INS alone is all you need to nuke missiles.   
      
   >>>>> China has plans to step up its presence in the Pacific and entered a   
   >>>>> security pact with Solomon Islands last year, raising concerns in the   
   >>>>> United States and Australia, who for decades have seen the region as   
   >>>>> their   
   >>>>> sphere of influence.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Australia has been looking to boost its defence spending over the   
   >>>>> past   
   >>>>> few   
   >>>>> years, including entering into a deal in 2021 to buy nuclear   
   >>>>> submarines   
   >>>>> from the United States and Britain.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> ($1 = 1.4323 Australian dollars)   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> (Reporting by Renju Jose. Editing by Gerry Doyle)   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> https://news.yahoo.com/australia-speed-purchase-sea-mines-034254381.html   
      
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