Australia AWDs

[macnz]

Janes reporting that Oz's AWD programme ¹  blown out to AUD800m  more than its AUD8.5 billion budget. Australian National Audit Office estimated in March overrun of AUD500m.

(1) AWD Programme
3x 7,000-tonne Hobart-class AWDs to be delivered to RAN March 2016,  September 2017, and March 2019

Source: www.janes.com/article/44759/awd-programme-now-aud800-million-over-budget


...ok the current burnrate might only be 10% of budget but unfortunately still 5-6 years to run on programme. What NZ could do with spare AUD800m

[macnz]

Time lapse of first Hobart Class destroyer

[macnz]

Government release report on troubled AWD program but refuses to disclose auditors or report contents due to commercially sensitivties?

mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-22/air-warfare-destroyer-hobart-launch-techport-adelaide/6487870

Independent Senator Nick Xenophon says he'll be pushing for a Senate resolution for the audit report to be released. He says he thinks the Government doesn't want it made public because it will be critical of the Defence Department and Defence Materiel Organisation. "This argument of "commercial in confidence" doesn't wash anymore with the AWD project, given that so many other commercial partners have been brought in on the process and, by necessity, information had to be shared."