Totally away from above water naval vessels, but our OZ Government is back-dooring a preferred Japanese built conventional submarine fleet to be fitted with systems [in Australia] capable of talking with US & British [& NATO] counterparts
These the are to replace the aging Collins Class, which replaced the even older Oberon Class.......[I do remember supervising the removal of an OMC hydraulic control module on an O boat...so how old does that make me?
.........]
One possibility here is.......if Politicians think they can command a Country, why not send them on a 3 month Naval Commando training course....with only those graduating
being allowed to go back to their civvy street Government jobs.....
You can just imagine it....engine room [MTP] sailors in a few years polishing the
Mitsubishi star symbol or the
Toyota hoola hoop symbol on the rocker covers of the V16 diesels
........or worse still...would the Japanese sub let the engines to the Koreans only to have them build IHI Sulzers or the Chinese to build Wartsillas or MTU-Duetz.....all under Licence of course
......Derek