relatively small military but i worked with the aussies a lot as an american infantryman. they are top notch and always in a good mood. parachuted into australia twice to do joint training. they worked alongside us in afghanistan as well and did amazing.
Thankyou kind sir! We Aussies may not have your firepower, but be like to think we make up for it in other ways. I remember when our ancient, old fashioned F111 Aardvarks used to love making life miserable for the American air defence team in the Northern Territory! 😄
Australia government ordered the ADF to increase to 80.000 regular personnel. And 25.000 reserves. At the moment Australia government is doing a full review on ADF needs and is the review is to be by march 2023. The review will require Upgrading all military base. Manufacturing our own missile and bombs under licence. Cyber warfare drones ect. Long strike capability. This includes our own defence satellites long range missile over the horizon strike capability. 9 ships such as type 26 modified to Australia needs for submarine hunters and build 3 more spanish f100 class air warfare destroyers for a total of 6 and requing 8 nuclear powerd submarines from the USA. Including buiing corvettes for OPV and converting Australia new Awafra class to mine hunters. Purchasing Under sea mutants such as new advanced mines. AH 64E Apache helicopters with hellfire missile to replace the tigers. New missile for the navy such as SM6 LSRAM and tomahawks and NSM ect Land base missile NASAMS. And builing an upgraded patriot missile defence systems. HIMARS for the Army Including replacement for the M113AS4 Armored Personnel Carrier possibly be the German Lynix as it offers similar protection as the Abrams. K9 thunder 155mm self propelled artillery tanks from south Korea to be built locally in Australia. NGRAD 6th generation aircraft upgrade to replace the super hornets. This been looked into by several platforms. Unmanned and manned aircraft such as stealth MQ28 ghost bat. US unnamed 6th generation air superiority aircraft. Or the British Tempest. Long range strike bombers armed with stand of hypersonic missiles. Either B21 stealth bombers if available for purchase or a larger bomber version platform of MQ 28 ghost bat that's been developed in Australia by Boeing Australia. Australia defence is looking into swarm of drones with AI for reconnaissance for land sea and air. Land attack and over the horizon strike capability to be able to strike into deep into the south China Sea to take away China strike capability against Australia. Billions of dollars has already been spent on defence. And many billions more will be spent. Back in early 2009 under Labor government that was coalition with the green government at the time cut 14.9 billion dollars in defence and cancelled many defence projects. This set Australia back on defence. Responsible for that was ex prime minister Kevin Rudd who is now Australian ambassador to USA and his successor Julia Gillard who had put Australian military in shambles. The Labor government today under Anthony Albanese and defence minister Richard Marles isn't coalition with the green government who had great influence on previous Labor government when it was in office. Australia is a small country of only 26.5 million people on a land size area mainland of USA. But our history has proven that our defence can punch above our own weight. And Australia is ready to back USA at any time of need.
The Australian Army has 3 infantry brigades The Australian Army uses the Steyr rifle The Australian Army is fighting overseas The Australian Army is back on leave The Australian Army is eating a meat-pie The Australian Army The Australian Army The Australian Army
A slight correction - the 3x Combat Brigades come under command of Forces Command (Based at Victoria Barracks Sydney) these Brigades are only attached to 1 Div for major exercises including the biannual Talisman-Sabre exercises
Those M113's have been with ADF since the early 1960's. They're were a number of them involved in the Vietnam conflict; in particular the Battle of Long Tan. They served as the relief force of Australian infantry pinned downed by Viet Cong.
The current version are actually the M113AS4 APC which is an locally modified, upgraded version of the M113A1. The easiest way to tell is the extended hull new turrets and six roadwheels as opposed to the previous five. They were the ones used in the movie Danger Close
@@mattamier6670 yes, also two M113’s were used in de- mining the neck! The were Flint and Steel! Great little machines. Loved their thunder run. They should make a movie about that .
22 tigers bieng replaced by 29 AH-64e Apaches. 41 Taipans bieng replaced by 40 UH-60M Blackhawks. Also looks like we'll be getting 270 Redbacks. EDIT: They've reduced it to 130 Redbacks. Down from the original 450. Because they're buying long range missiles instead. The fools.
Guess it means we look at an upgrade package for the ASLAV and/or M113/AS4. They're still functional vehicles although not Ukraine-Russia War ready. The question becomes who has the ability to land sufficient high end armoured vehicles to defeat our M1A2 Sep v3's and Redbacks, and then the backup ASLAV's and M113's. The theories behind that decision are multiple. One, as an island spending extra on navy would be beneficial because sinking transport ships with either surface vessels or more likely submarines might be better bang for buck and better power projection. It's not like the British Navy didn't prove the effectiveness of that strategy for the last 350 years or so. Two, drone combat capabilities versus tanks and IFV's are currently a real threat. It might be better looking at how other nations go with their alternative defences rather than going all in on one strategy that may not work. Three, we can amend an order to add more units a lot more easily than deduct units, or potentially add a new variant or add in Lynx's or whatever to diversify capability. Four, we're probably going to need to invest heavily in optionally manned vehicles. Five, we're probably going to need to buy close range Armoured Air Defence Weaponry like a modern version of the Gepard to take out drones. If they happen to be able to aim down to -3 degrees or so they'll do a fairly good job as an IFV even if it might be considered a \/\/ar Cr|me to use them in an antipersonnel role. But I'm sure we'd only use them in an anti materiel role, right? :D Reality is the learnings from Russia-Ukraine will be coming for some years. But right now, large surface targets look like money pits, but lightly armoured stuff and infantry is drone fodder too. We can't throw lots of people away as the ADF struggles to recruit, so long range missiles are a better deterrent than untested IFV's are.
Just a slight correction the gun you showed is the F90 and Australian designed replacement for the Austyer F88 which was a license built copy of the Styer
Great video but PLEASE STOP saying "The Australian army" at the beginning of each sentence. It distracts from an otherwise informative well produced video.
Hey mate, love the video you seam to have a passion and know what your talking about, I did pick up a few things though, dont mean to be a dick or anything, but they F88 Austeyr from what I know is being replaced by the EF88(what is shown in the photos) the F89 is a minimi 5.56X45mm LMG. Also the photo you showed for the M72 LAW is an NLAW they are 2 diffrent things, the Hi-Power from what I know being being replaced by the Sig P320 and also a 6.8x51mm NATO bullpup rifle from what I also understand is being tested. You did forget a few weapons, one being the HK417 that is the DWM, the the gernade luncher they use on the steyr rifles is the SL40 i think its 40mm not sure, anyways apart from the small things you did very well, if I didnt know anything I could walk away from this video learning new things, I mean to be honest one thing I did know was that the M1A1 was being replaced, I also didnt know that the ASLAV was made in Australia and Canada, I wonder what varent of the LAV is the base model, do you know anything about that?
What we need now, which the Ukraine has taught us, are a load of long-range missiles, Drones, and a huge increase in the number of infantry battalions. We have around 7 infantry battalions now, 1 RAR, 2 RAR, 3 RAR, 4 RAR, 5 RAR, 6RAR, 7 RAR. 4RAR being a commando unit. Need to increase to at least 11 infantry battalions Regular Army. And I think 8/9 RAR still exists in Queensland.
All of our capital cities and large regional centres each need an 8 to 48 cell vertical launch Aegis air defence system firing RIM-66 and RIM-174 surface to air missiles, as well as Anti-ship Harpoon missile systems. Australia also needs to start working on a defence against hypersonic missiles. America seems to have found a solution to it. We need what they're building ASAP.
Don’t forget, the Australian Army also has a “Tank farm” in Brisbane. With an underground tank firing range to test, umm, tank guns. The Australian Army are farmers
When i served 88-95 the armoured corps were part of the 1st div based in Victoria and i served with 5/7 RAR at holsworthy in sydney and the 3rd Battalion ( aka Dirt Darts ) made up the other infantry brigade. 5/7 and 1st Armoured along with the 2nd cav regiment and most of the 1st brigade at holsworthy moved to Darwin. 2cav was the 1st to go in early 90s then 5/7 about 96, Please sombody correct me if im wrong. Im not sure were 3 RAR ended up
was this about the Australian Army . I missed the intro . every 5/10 sec the Australian Army . sorry what was that , The Australian Army . apart from saying that nearly every time you opened your mouth , you did have some useful information . out of 10 points I would give you about an 8 on the content but only a 2 on your presentation .
What you think,,,,,red back armed with 50mm cannon on red backs,,,Germany has 50mm on misshismitt 262 ask them about 50mm for red backs now what you think Australian Navy helecopters put wings turbo jet boosters and 50mm cannon boosters when firing the white helechopter,,,,the red back good but the own from Korea there getting some should get replaced with ,50mm
We never call them "Browning Hi-powers" - they are manufactured by FN of Belguim, so they are FN 9mm pistols, or 'Self-loading pistol, 9mm, Mk3'. To any soldier issued one, they were just the '9mm' as the only other 9mm weapon was the F1 submachine gun (which was replaced by the carbine version of the F88 AUSTEYR, which we simply call a 'Steyr').
Hopefully our armies equipment budget won't be cannibalised to pay for the nuclear submarines,Australia needs to realise, you need to pay for a strong military and support our troops
Seems like most of this information has been read straight off Wikipedia, this video is just a list of what Australia has, with no other information. But I guess that’s what the title suggests…
18 soldiers held up 500 strong force with tanks for ten hours, allowing time for a stopping force to be assembled. War isn't about numbers, it's about resolve.
You get a big kudo's as the first American that has ever pronounced Brisbane correctly. But Duuuude. Where you hung over when you recorded this? as you sound like you just woke up from a big drinking session and havent had any Maccas yet.
Hier alter ich gehöre der Regulere Staat USA US ARMY - Pegasus Galaktica 7 Cyborg Darcho J. / Gorilla Cyborg sagte ich Jahr 1988 ich mache sowas nicht mit.
we may have a small registered army BUT TAKE US TO WAR AND WATCH THE COUNTRY JOIN AS 50,000 becomes 2,000,000+….. We Love our Families, We love our Friends, We WILL DIE FOR THEM BOTH…… I’d happily serve and give my legs n life just like my pop and great unkles in ww1 n ww2
As an aussie, I don't see many enemies need the country to maintain the military of this size, we sent troops to PNG and East Timor for peacekeeping, and that's about it.
Not being sarcastic but the Chinese are probably very worried. Australia is a free, sovereign nation with a small but extremely skilled, well paid and motivated defence force. Communist China will have a major fight on its hands if it decides to f**k with us.
They refused our F/A18's said they weren't good enough. They're saying the same about US F-16 now. They can start buying their own gear if they're gonna be expecting everyone else's toys when they're still being offered better gear than their enemy for free.
A lot of quality information. But did you just wake up after a hard night, have a choof, and attempt to read without your glasses? From talking through your nose to guttural sounds, I had to stop watching.
the content is great but could use a different person to voice over. His crocky voice tappers off at the end of every sentence and why is there a need to repeat "Australian Army" every other sentence....the going was tough to watch the whole presentation.
Since February 24, Ukraine has been allocated more than $ 75 billion!! Admittedly, this is a lot. Question: Where are they????? At the moment, Russia is formally at war with the NATO bloc, which suddenly began having problems with weapons, an economic crisis broke out that has not been for 40 years. During the 4 months of the war, Russia destroyed 95% of Ukrainian weapons, more than 150 thousand soldiers. Now this figure is already more than 300 thousand dead… Every third serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is a foreign mercenary. The entire annual military budget of the Russian Federation is about $ 65 billion. At the same time, Russians today live the best in the world, how does this even happen? Judge for yourself, Russia has the cheapest gas, oil, electricity, food, Internet, transport... and even medicine is free. And at the same time, they are in no hurry. I understand nothing… I'm tired of lying journalists... Why is there no Russian view of what is happening in Ukraine? Why are we blocking them? Or is democracy over?
Yeah I agree the truth and democracy seems to be failing, but I have hope that Russia will not fully subdue Ukraine. It's stupid because Europe is actually buying Russian gas, but just from other countries that bought it from Russia for example China. I have no doubt that within the next 20 years a magor world changing event will happen, like a world war or a civil war in the west, Mabey both.
You got one thing right, you clearly said, "I understand nothing". This is very true, you understand nothing. I really liked the bit about Russians living the best in the world. That made me laugh aloud. There is a strong possibility that anyone reading your comments will think you are an idiot.
lol you just spreading lies you lil child.. everything you say. Foreign mercs do not make up 1 in every 3 in Ukraine.. total BS. West and world were seeing financial crisis before the war and was due to covid lockdowns etc. Your death count is also total BS .. and funny Russia has no troops and so desperate hires from prisons. Russia live best in the world more BS.. their lives are pretty gross compared to most. I watch life in Russia after sanctions.. i would feed Russian food to my animals as is disgusting looking. diry food with marks and blemishes. carrotts pale coloured Chicken eggs covered in dirt and Chicken poop. Grasss is messy and long beside parks and roads etc. No media on Russian view of Ukraine.. there is 1420 youtube is a Russian. Also reason is Russia blocked all journalism in Russia except Russian state media and if watch Russian media monitor they show what Russia saids . Show Russia are Nazi sickos and liars.
Australian Defense Force considering size of Australia as a country is too small too little size in all 3 branches Army, Navy and Air Force and Australia is in recession cost of living for every Australian is spiraling out of control and for 12th times this month or next month interest rates on mortgages are going up again and costs of everything inflation is going to hit new heights
