Vice Admiral T W Barrett - Royal Australian Navy - Naval capability and sustainment

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ADM CONFERENCE 2016

Vice Admiral T W Barrett, AO, CSC

Chief of Navy

9 February 2016

Continuous Ship Building

The Force as a Fighting System

The Five Tenets of National Naval Capability

Deterrence

Lethality

Availability

Sustainability

Affordability

Navy capable of prosecuting war

Availability of Ships

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Continuous Ship Building Strategy

Certainty for Industry

“ Now What ”

Looking Forward

Admiral Sir Louis Hamiliton 1948

A navy does not drop from the clouds. It is a miraculous and delicate instrument, a creation of nerves as well as steel, united with blood as well as rivets, it is in many ways the greatest expression of a nation’s genius.