Comments on: Australia cancels $7 billion satellite contract with Lockheed Martin https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/australia-cancels-7-billion-satellite-contract-with-lockheed-martin/ Tue, 05 Nov 2024 07:44:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/australia-cancels-7-billion-satellite-contract-with-lockheed-martin/#comment-1529747 Tue, 05 Nov 2024 07:44:41 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=109691#comment-1529747 Mike Borgelt,

No, you aren’t. You’re a self-harmed victim of too many recent bad choices made on your own. Your Left has already taken your guns and your freedom of speech while our Left is still merely trying to do the same here. Tomorrow’s election should determine, in large measure, how likely they are to succeed.

]]> By: Mike Borgelt https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/australia-cancels-7-billion-satellite-contract-with-lockheed-martin/#comment-1529688 Mon, 04 Nov 2024 22:36:44 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=109691#comment-1529688 Likely correct decision for the wrong reason as Dick says.. Australia should get on board with StarShield. We are a US satrapy anyway.

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/australia-cancels-7-billion-satellite-contract-with-lockheed-martin/#comment-1529652 Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:49:38 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=109691#comment-1529652 Probably a good decision even if – coming from a Labour government – also likely made for the wrong reasons. The era of gold-plated GEO milsats is rapidly going away in favor of far cheaper and more numerous LEO and/or MEO milsats. Whether Australian or U.S., $7 billion is a lot of money. Australia would be far better off spending that on almost anything else than what was originally proposed.

]]> By: F https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/australia-cancels-7-billion-satellite-contract-with-lockheed-martin/#comment-1529645 Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:01:10 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=109691#comment-1529645 Phew! For a second, I worried that stupid, short-sighted decisions were only made north of the equator.

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