Kikapu wrote:Paphitis wrote:Kikapu wrote:Paphitis wrote:repulsewarrior wrote:...weren't there satellite transmissions of the search area released today?
Yes they certainly were.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/mh370-searc ... zrq9a.html
So, the MH370 search is not going to be as costly to the Aussies as we were led to believe few weeks ago by our good friend, Paphitis.
Australia has committed up to $US90 million ($97 million) towards the search operation over two years.
Kikapu,
yhe Australians are spending $90 million on the search moving forward from now. That is how much has been allocated in the budget for the next financial year.
It does not include what has already been spent which is about $40 to $50 million up until now.
It also does not include what other countries have spent such as China, US, UK, Japan, NZ and South Korea. If you include all of that, then the figure is closer to $100 million.
Well, most of the equipment used in the search of MH370 had been military equipment and hardware, regardless which countries were involved, which most of the cost would have occurred anyway regardless where they were used, since the Orions specially are on a constant submarine lookout according to you. The MH370 was just added to their list of things to do while out there. The so called allocated funds for the future so called search of the MH370 will too be spent on military equipment doing what they do at any given day.
Not necessarily. Resources which are allocated to this unforeseen event means that other resources are allocated to all the other duties such as Border Security which the Orions are very active. The money spent on the search is not allocated from the Defence Budget and the Minister of Defence made that very clear.
As for being on a constant Submarine Lookout, they are not as active as they once were during the Cold War. But when they are out, they are looking for Subs, that is true. Even Australian Subs. The Orion is a very versatile platform, and pilots that fly them do about 1000 hours per annum.
There are a number of Defence procurement projects under way. They signed a $16 Billion Dollar deal and ordered 100 F-35s, the Air Warfare Destroyers are about to be commissioned as well as the Canberra Class Carriers. They are also looking at the F-18F Hornet replacement which replaced the F111s and the US is offering the F-22. The Orion Replacement is the P-8A Poseidon.
Kikapu wrote:It is a little slap in the face for the Aussies, since they took the initiative to try and find the MH370 in their own "backyard", because they made everyone believe that's where the plane had crashed with so called sightings of debris by satellites and so called Black Box ping signals, despite all pings coming from different locations, but it did not stop the Aussie PM declaring to the world that they had found the Black Boxes because of those pings. Perhaps they should have used more common sense in their pursuit to be proven right. Perhaps they should have read some of the objective comment written here on the Cyprus Forum.
Australia took the initiative because the area is within Australia's SAR zone. They had no choice and if they did not take the initiative, then they would be accused by many countries of not upholding their international treaty obligations.
It was Inmarsat that stated MH370 crashed in the Indian Ocean and the data they used to come to that conclusion is very valid. It was the only set of the data that the IIT and JACC had to go go by other than the confirmed Primary Returns in Thai Airspace. The aircraft flew for 6 to 7 hours without ACARS, ADS-B or a Transponder and that is unprecedented.
The search continues on as the embark on the next phase. They did say they were preparing for this many weeks ago before ADV Ocean Shield went to port.
Where do you get all this bullshit from? 
