"phil hunt" wrote in message
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On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 18:19:59 +0800, Paul Saccani
wrote:
On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 05:15:15 +0100, Pooh Bear
wrote:



A worst-case scenario might be China allied with Indonesia, and
Australia doesn't have any allies, sometime between 2010-2020. I'd
imagine by that time China would have enough advanced aircraft to
win air superiority, in which case Australia's best hope to stop an
invasion would probably be submarines (firing high-speed
cavitating torpedoes)

An absolute desperation weapon adopted only the Russians


and anti-ship missiles.


Reactive instead of proactive defense doesnt work well in this situation,
fact is there's no way Austalia would have a hope in hell of intercepting
an invasion fleet with submarines unles they have efficient maritime
surveillance
and that requires air superiority.

Sinking the fleet before it leaves home water or in one of the
choke points in the Indonesian archipelago is a much better
strategy.

Keith

Keith