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Friday, May 21, 2010

Torpedo project turns 12 and still hasn't made its point

MU90The Auditor-General has blasted Defence for so badly mismanaging a $665 million torpedo purchase that after 12 years the Department still does not know what the program will deliver.

In a report released yesterday, the Auditor-General found the program to install the MU90 anti-submarine torpedo on naval vessels and aircraft, approved by the Howard government in March 1998, "is yet to deliver an operational capability".

A succession of problems has left the navy largely reliant on torpedoes recognised as inadequate in the 1990s, making it more vulnerable to attack.

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