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And we are doing so with the Australian Defence Force overall.

A number of exercises and training opportunities are designed to have all the three services integrated and
working in the same complex battle space.

We’re reworking the way we do business internally, let alone as a collective, or collaborative process.

It’s a great opportunity with the new capabilities we’ve got to actually empower our forces for integration at
all levels.

Question: With the focus for the past decade upon land wars, ASW skill sets have clearly atrophied for
the key allied navies.

How have you dealt with this?

Answer: It is a challenge.

We’ve had to work hard to make sure that our skills did not atrophy to the point where we didn’t have that
capability.
And we’ve done that.

And we’ve done it on the AP-3C in time to move to the P-8 and take on all these new ways of doing business.

So I think we arrested that just in time, but it was a real risk that we faced as well.

Some can look at the new P-8/Triton dyad as delivering significant ISR and C2 capabilities into the
battlespace and it will.

But we cannot forget our core mission – which is ASW or as you have described it Maritime Domain
Awareness strike capabilities.

We’re the only capability that does independent long range maritime strike.

That’s the thing we need to work hard to maintain.

We need to make sure that we meet our preparedness requirements to provide long range ASW, and ASUW
and those missions are key to the way we train, and do business.

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Shaping a 21 Century Base: RAF Lossiemouth and the Coming of the P-8

2017-07-12 By Robbin Laird

During my visit to RAF Lossiemouth in March 2017, I had a chance to talk with the senior officers involved in
rebuilding the infrastructure at the base for the arrival of an additional Typhoon squadron and for the coming
of the P-8.

Having visited Norway earlier this year and having discussed among other things, the coming of the P-8 and
the F-35 in Norway, it is clear that what happens on the other side of the North Sea (i.e., the UK) is of keen
interest to Norway. And talking with the RAF and Royal Navy, the changes in Norway are also part of
broader UK considerations when it comes to the reshaping of NATO defense capabilities in a dynamic region.

Second Line of Defense

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