August 12, 2023

QUADs in Exercise MALABAR 2023

https://news.usni.org/2023/08/11/quad-alliance-joins-together-for-exercise-malabar-2023-in-australia

From August 11 – 21, 2023. Hosted by Australia for the first time.

Two, as yet, unidentified submarines, are participating. One from the USN (USS North Carolina?) the other from the RAN.

3 comments:

  1. Gessler8/18/2023 11:56 PM

    Hi Pete,

    Here's some interesting reading about a subject you've covered previously:

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-18/china-deploys-swarm-of-satellites-to-monitor-military-australia/102742594

    Cheers

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  2. Pete8/20/2023 5:45 PM

    Hi Gessler Thanks for your 8/18/2023 11:56 comment.

    Re PM https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-18/china-deploys-swarm-of-satellites-to-monitor-military-australia/102742594

    Predictably China is in the spy satellite game like every great power, Israel and military alliance including the QUAD and Five Eyes.

    Where an Aussie claims "Australia by contrast doesn't own any military satellites and certainly doesn't have any capability to collect the sort of imagery that China's been collecting over Sydney Harbour this week." this is misleading. Aus DoD constantly receives data from many US spy satellites about Chinese and Russian military/naval/missile activities, which is what Pine Gap satellite groundstation, Aus and NZ others and US groundstations others are all about.

    Cheers Pete

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  3. Pete8/20/2023 5:49 PM

    Hi again Gessler your 8/20/2023 4:17 PM

    India's submarine visit to Australia is a positive step towards strengthening the QUAD alliance.

    Regards Pete

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