Episode 8

When does clever marketing cross over into something more nasty – namely the selective or misleading use of information? When you are the UK trying to sell a warship to Australia, that’s when. We detail some of the shenanigans behind that one and ask how is it possible to fool of the experts in the RAN and Defence. Next is the failure to transfer Hawkei vehicles to Ukraine – and the reasons given to the Australian public for the lack of action do not stand up to scrutiny. Finally when we said the situation with the SURTASS purchase could not be any worse than we thought – yes it can be. It turns out that the RAN had more than generic information from Australian underwater technology companies – they had at least one roadmap for doing the work locally. Instead $309 million is going to the US – and the system being purchased is obsolete and will need a specialised ship to operate it successfully. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.