Australia to ramp up missile production as Indo Pacific enters new missile age

Always great to see Australia stepping up to the security plate, as it regularly does.

The Aussies are capable, dependable, trustworthy partners for Japan and the free world, who fully understand the grave China threat and the need to be prepared.

and export to security partners including the United States.

This is key. US stockpiles and manufacturing capacity are being stretched, so others need to do whatever they can to cover the needs of both themselves and their partners. Interoperability, and flexible supply re-routing will be crucial in any conflict.

That's not a missile, this is a missile.

Good to Australia upgrading to capabilities beyond our usual strategy: ask nicely, and if that doesn’t work, send in the roos - they’ve got the best jump on the enemy.

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France's Thales will establish Australian manufacturing of 155mm M795 artillery ammunition, used in howitzers, at an Australian government-owned munitions facility in the small Victorian city of Benalla.

This will be the second site making 155mm artillery ammunition in Australia following the partnership with Rheinmetall in Queensland that is already producing the ammunition.

With multiple partners now moving to manufacture in Australia this will aid Australia and Europe/NATO to produce faster and have distant isolated points of manufacturing to guard against the loss through war of their own facilities. Also good for jobs creation and high tech research which will also be expanded in Australia.

This will give Japan and South Korea and even Taiwan another place to acquire such munitions in the event they ever need them.

Australia said it will establish domestic manufacture of artillery ammunition with France's Thales

Good on them. We can no longer pretend like there won't be proxy wars spilling every which way.

To give asian nations to acquire such ordninance should they have been enticed into the planets's rulers? into proxy wars, more killing sales! anybody remember John Lennon and non -spouse? Are peaceful reconciliations far less costly?

A good idea given the way China has all but subjugated a number of members of ASEAN who are in the process of switching alliances to China. It's also a good idea considering that China is seeking to build it's capacity to isolate Australia from Asia and the rest of the world world via China's economic and security arrangements with those nations that are weak financially, militarily and which have corrupt leaders seeking personal gain particularly in those small nations that are Australia's nearest Eastern and Northern neighbours. It's also a very good idea to build up one's ability to deter Indonesia especially now that they have a new criminal running the show.

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To give asian nations to acquire such ordninance should they have been enticed into the planets's rulers? into proxy wars, more killing sales! anybody remember John Lennon and non -spouse? Are peaceful reconciliations far less costly?

The Soviet Union was far more reasonable than today's adversaries.

Thank you Australia.

@isabelle. We would get along great. I love your comment. Nailed it.

Better to have and not need. Then need and not have.

Peter14,how many 155mm can reach Chuna

I'm sure Aussies facing the next round of bushfires and flooding will be pleased with how those billions are being spent.

The Soviet Union was far more reasonable than today's adversaries.

Just better educated. The Chinese education system doesn't teach their students much about the world outside of China. I take my wife as an example. She was raised out in the boonies during the Cultural Revolution but later moved to Shanghai where her family was from before the Red Guards kicked her family out.

Keep in mind this is a woman with a BSEE from an American university who works in a lab environment. No dummy, a match whiz. But she was never taught anything about the Middle East, doesn't know how Israel came to exist or the regions history under Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman or Babylonian rule. Never read anything by Thomas Jefferson or James Madison, or Voltaire or Adam Smith for that matter. Was taught that China beat Vietnam in their 1979 war and was amazed and very quiet when I showed her the truth. Knows nothing of what happened in 1989 in Beijing. Was taught that Mao beat the Japanese in WWII (when in fact he hid in the north waiting for the USSR to run the Japanese out). Chinese leaders are operating from a position of ignorance of the world around them. My wife is a contemporary of the current Chinese leadership in terms of her age and education. She doesn't read. Reading was dangerous. She doesn't ask questions because that too was dangerous. She was a little better off because her mother was a teacher until the Red Guards came along. That is why her family was run out of Shanghai. That and her grandparents were prosperous Shahghai merchants before the revolution, so the Red Guards considered them capitalist enemies.

So the mindset of the Chinese leadership is based on a very poor understanding of the world China exists in, and it is a very narrow mindset that sees China as the center of everything and all other nations as their vassals to be exploited at will, along with an intolerance of any kind of dissent.

That's an eternity ago in terms of the education system in China. When I taught at a university in China in the late 1980s roughly 8% of HS graduates continued on to higher education institutions. That number is now over 50%. Additionally hundreds of thousands of Chinese study in the USA, Australia, etc. every year taking their skills and experience back to China. This has been going on for decades.

She was raised out in the boonies during the Cultural Revolution

Disappointed you didn't bring up the tributary system but using the word vassal gets you halfway there.

Chinese leadership is based on a very poor understanding of the world China exists in, and it is a very narrow mindset that sees China as the center.

That's an eternity ago in terms of the education system in China. When I taught at a university in China in the late 1980s roughly 8% of HS graduates continued on to higher education institutions. That number is now over 50%. Additionally hundreds of thousands of Chinese study in the USA, Australia, etc. every year taking their skills and experience back to China. This has been going on for decades.

I am not talking about the younger generation, though I doubt China teaches them the truth about 1989 or exposes their students to the writings of Voltaire for example of Thomas Jefferson. China's leaders are the age of my wife and came up in the same educational system she came up in. They are contemporaries. They are every bit as unaware of the larger world or western ways of thinking as my wife and their decisions show it.

Even my wife gets on my nerves when she tells me how superior all things Chinese are and that the rest of the world knows nothing.

Disappointed you didn't bring up the tributary system

You understood what I meant.

Meet current Chinese Premier Li Qiang who earned a MBA from Honk Kong Polytechnic University. Heck even old frog face Jiang Zemin from 20 years ago spoke English well. There's an interesting 60 Minutes interview out there that is easily accessible.

 China's leaders are the age of my wife and came up in the same educational system she came up in

Let's not even get started with likely future President Trump's knowledge of the world.

how many 155mm can reach Chuna

Had to look that one up. Chuna river is a tributary of the Taseyeva in Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.

I guess it depends on how far away your artillery piece is but for Ukraine their shells with extended range need to be within 60 km of their target.