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When capability overrides supportability – project disappointment

11/09/2019 Brian Hartigan 2402 Views 0 Comments

Submitted ‘thought piece’… (Image supplied by Beca) When it comes to military procurement, acquisition leads often focus on buying as

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Australian, Japanese and American soldiers conduct a live-fire platoon attack with armoured fighting vehicles at Puckapunyal during Exercise Southern Jackaroo 2014. Photo by Sergeant Brian Hartigan.
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Armour in the Australian Army: Is There Something Wrong? Part 5

27/11/201810/06/2019 Brian Hartigan 2434 Views 2 Comments

A couple of points from previous parts: (i) I understand that the amphibious battalion in Townsville is actually under the

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Boxer CRV. Photo by Brian Hartigan.
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Armour in the Australian Army: Is There Something Wrong? Part 4

19/11/201810/06/2019 Brian Hartigan 2867 Views 3 Comments

Does it not seem strange that the Australian Army’s most expensive equipment procurement project ever – $15billion worth – is

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A simulated munition explodes next to an Australian Army Hawkei Protected Mobility Vehicle – Light during Land Trial 02-18 at the Townsville Field Training Area in north Queensland. Photo by Corporal Nunu Campos.
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Armour in the Australian Army: Is There Something Wrong? Part 3

11/11/201810/06/2019 Brian Hartigan 3493 Views 6 Comments

How does a mechanised infantry battalion work? Let’s start with a single IFV … three crew (driver, gunner and commander),

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Rheinmetall Boxer CRV with an in-service Australian Light Armoured Vehicle (ASLAV).
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Armour in the Australian Army : Is There Something Wrong? Part 2

06/11/201810/06/2019 Brian Hartigan 2469 Views 0 Comments

For those interested in Army’s most expensive acquisition ever … LAND 400 Phase 3 ($15b) is intended to provide 450

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An M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank fires on Exercise Diamond Run 2017. Photo by Captain Anna-Lise Brink.
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Armour in the Australian Army: Is there something wrong?

16/10/201810/06/2019 Brian Hartigan 3715 Views 4 Comments

Part one in a new series of musings by Australian tank expert Bruce Cameron   Let’s look at the situation

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First pages of a major CONTACT Magazine spread on 2RAR (Amphib), from December 2017.
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An argument to make 2RAR whole again

27/09/201810/06/2019 Brian Hartigan 1393 Views 0 Comments

“Some men look at the way things are and ask ‘Why?’.  I prefer to look at the way things should

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Marines with 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, and 4th AABn., perform an amphibious raid at Camp Pendleton, California. USMC photo by Corporal Joshua Young.
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Let’s buy Amtracs for 2RAR

30/08/201710/06/2019 Brian Hartigan 3235 Views 2 Comments Amtracs

. Dear generals and politicians, Before you get too carried away with reinventing Army’s amphibious capability, best you realise paddling

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Reorganising the reorganisation of the reorg

20/06/201710/06/2019 Brian Hartigan 4069 Views 2 Comments ASLAV, Bushmaster, M113, RAAC, RAInf

. Seems change is as good as a holiday, or is it the old let’s keep the troops busy. Maybe it’s because

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An F/A-18F Super Hornet. Photo by Sergeant Pete Gammie.
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What could we deploy if Korea hits the fan?

11/05/201710/06/2019 Brian Hartigan 4373 Views 2 Comments Korea

. As South Korea is one of our major trading partners, the USA is our major ally and we have

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Members of Overwatch Battle Group–West get ready to participate in an ANZAC Day Dawn Service at Talil, Iraq, 2008. Photo by Brian Hartigan.
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Celebrating Freedom on ANZAC Day 2017

11/04/201710/06/2019 Brian Hartigan 1891 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day, OBG-W(4), Overwatch Battle Group–West, Talil Iraq

. Many years ago as a young child accompanying my parents, we approached an unguarded voting box on election day

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Family and friends of those killed in the sinking of HMAS Voyager cast sprigs of rosemary overboard from HMAS Choules. Photo by Able Seaman Chantell Bianchi.
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Even ANZAC Day is being commercialised

27/03/201710/06/2019 Brian Hartigan 2670 Views 1 Comment commercialising ANZAC Day, jingoism

Business has done it to Christmas and then to Easter; in fact Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Valentine’s Day where

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Photo by Flight Sergeant Kev Berriman
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A Matter of Perspective

05/03/201710/06/2019 Brian Hartigan 2361 Views 3 Comments ANZAC Perspective

I’ve had time of late to take stock of things and look at the world with a new appreciation for

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The basics of prepping

17/07/201610/06/2019 Brian Hartigan 2547 Views 0 Comments doomsday preppers

I blogged here a few weeks ago about prepping and why and what should we do to prep. Well I’ll give

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Digital composition by Brian Hartigan
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Calling all doomsday preppers

07/07/201610/06/2019 Brian Hartigan 3578 Views 5 Comments doomsday, preppers

Has anyone seen the TV show Doomsday Preppers? My partner and I love watching that show and, as preppers ourselves,

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Anzac Day wreath laying. ADF file photo
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What are Kiwis doing here on ANZAC Day?

22/04/201610/06/2019 Brian Hartigan 1820 Views 0 Comments Kiwi ANZAC Day

After reading your reply in Facebook re the “Is ANZAC Day not taught in schools or what?” post. I have humbly

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Is ANZAC Day not taught in schools or what?

20/04/201610/06/2019 Brian Hartigan 2081 Views 3 Comments ANZAC Day

So, I was on the train yesterday and in front of me were these school kids talking about ANZAC Day. They were

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Should Emergency Services be allowed to ‘carry’?

23/02/201610/06/2019 Brian Hartigan 2428 Views 5 Comments concealed carry, open carry

. Should emergency services, law enforcement, ADF and other people who are willing to uphold the law, be allowed to carry

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