the long time to bear fruit, page-2

Thats a good post CJS !! Im surprised at the depth of your understanding of it all, these days my level of thought doesnt go much past how pissed I am with the SP.
The Collins class subs what a joke and enbarrassment hey !
Why Australia doesnt appear to support its troups with the best equipment available and support its home talent element is puzzling.
Im guessing the international political influence America etc.
PNG would have been a good opportunity to prove the integrity of MAUL.
I think the answer to it all is somewhere between what youve mentioned and outside interest in the development and intergration of stacked round technology.
I think thats how somehow MST manage to come up with funding consistently enough. A downside here though I think we get dilutioned out of relevance.
Production starting 2013 -2014 not really what I wanted to hear but its hopefully a realistic goal nonetheless.