RAN Riverine / amphibious capability
Posted: 21 Oct 2016 14:41
Interesting. From the most recent Parliamentary transcripts
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The Government has outlined a number of other future investments in the Integrated Investment Program that will further expand our amphibious capability.
Indeed, the ADF’s Riverine Patrol capability will be re-established to increase tactical mobility in the littoral zone. The Riverine Patrol capability will deliver a fleet of lightly armed boats in the mid-2020s to allow operations in a wide range of littoral environments. The capability will provide a force element that is capable of effective support to littoral combat operations.
We will also need to support these new capabilities with increased personnel and training facilities.
Around 700 additional ADF positions will be needed for force generation for amphibious operations from the Canberra Class amphibious ships; amphibious support systems, including over the beach logistics and beached materiel recovery; armed medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft; tactical unmanned aircraft; a long-range rocket capability; and combat support systems.
In the longer-term, as indicated in the White Paper, the Government will consider a new Northern Advanced Joint Training Area to support large-scale, joint and combined amphibious training, in addition to Shoalwater Bay, which is currently our only other large-scale training area with a joint amphibious training capacity.
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I wonder if this aligns with suggestions I had heard of for a riverine capability utilising vessels such as the Combat Boat 90 for operations around the Cape York peninsula, the Gulf Country and the areas around the Northern Territory's coastlines and rivers. It would also be very useful in the littoral surrounding most of our Norther neighbours.
Mike
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The Government has outlined a number of other future investments in the Integrated Investment Program that will further expand our amphibious capability.
Indeed, the ADF’s Riverine Patrol capability will be re-established to increase tactical mobility in the littoral zone. The Riverine Patrol capability will deliver a fleet of lightly armed boats in the mid-2020s to allow operations in a wide range of littoral environments. The capability will provide a force element that is capable of effective support to littoral combat operations.
We will also need to support these new capabilities with increased personnel and training facilities.
Around 700 additional ADF positions will be needed for force generation for amphibious operations from the Canberra Class amphibious ships; amphibious support systems, including over the beach logistics and beached materiel recovery; armed medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft; tactical unmanned aircraft; a long-range rocket capability; and combat support systems.
In the longer-term, as indicated in the White Paper, the Government will consider a new Northern Advanced Joint Training Area to support large-scale, joint and combined amphibious training, in addition to Shoalwater Bay, which is currently our only other large-scale training area with a joint amphibious training capacity.
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I wonder if this aligns with suggestions I had heard of for a riverine capability utilising vessels such as the Combat Boat 90 for operations around the Cape York peninsula, the Gulf Country and the areas around the Northern Territory's coastlines and rivers. It would also be very useful in the littoral surrounding most of our Norther neighbours.
Mike