US Allies don't pay their fair share in def

>US Allies don't pay their fair share in def...

>ramp
>dock queen

defense?

No, you don't.

Having an LHD with a ramp that doesn't operate any fixed wing aircraft because its too expensive, and also "too expensive" to remove the ramp is a great example of this, so I'm glad you posted it

>any dangerous objects such as sharp cutlery forbidden on board

Maybe if you all stopped putting muzzies and their three wives and ten kids up in big houses you would have a little more to contribute to our collective defense.

This isn't the UK leaf

>An LHD with a ramp
The Australians are taking shitposting to the high seas

There are plans to spend an extra $300 mil. to upgrade it's capabilities to aircraft carrier status.

You guys don't pay your fair share in anything. You freeload off of our healthcare system and advances in medicine, too, then act all shitty because you can afford to offer care our system created at lower prices.

Dammit I can't Sup Forums right.

It will never have "aircraft carrier status", m8.

Its an LHD.

Same as the Wasp class won't be aircraft carriers.

A
FUCKING
RAMP

kek has spoken

An aircraft carrier with a ramp and no planes, the day is saved!

Why the fuck does it even have the stupid ramp if all it has is helicopters?

Romania is at 1.75% or even 2% these days.

witnessed

chekd and guess im rekt by kek.

>Why the fuck does it even have the stupid ramp if all it has is helicopters?

IIRC, its based on a previous design and the cost to remove the ramp was greater than the perceived disadvantages of just leaving it on.

Could be wrong about that.

>You freeload off of our healthcare system and advances in medicine

Garbage.

The fraction of medical spending in the US that goes to research is close enough to zero.

Are you NATO? IF so, 2% is your target number.

If the Greeks can do it, you have no excuse.

Nice try

>If the Greeks can do it, you have no excuse.

but the Greeks have the best pilots in Europe with the exception of us
It's not fair to compare like that

you have one, with a skateboard ramp

we have 10. which is more than the rest of the world has all together.

The Greeks do it because they have a fetish for deficit spending and public jobs.

2% for a half dozen years before your economy gets flushed

>>>>>>>>>>

Eli Lilly? Monsato? Dow Chemical?

Literally where 90% of medical research funding comes form. The trouble is we saddle them with impossible health regulations via the FDA that makes there work so slow to the public. Ask anyone who works in meds in the US and they'll tell you the red tape is so deep it's a huge financial risk to start any new drug or product- so you should be thanking us for giving your meager pharmaceuticals a chance on the market to actually innovate.

Australia is rightfully Chinese clay

Get over it

2 Actually

We will never pay our fair share until our government stops being pussies and uses our uranium to make nukes and also nuclear power

A

FUCKING

RAMP

our Navy doesn't even consider amphibious assault ships to be aircraft carriers.

Fuck off chang

yeah brah

This was the rumour 4 years ago when I was still in the navy, it isn't going to happen. We don't even have the right type of F-35s ordered for carrier ops.

>literall one boat
>bunch of lazy fucks in the foreground
>probably use it to go diving

he was specifically talking about NATO members who don't pay their 2%, friendo

>collective defense
>literally importing the enemy
it's a money pit

Ching chang chong ding dong

>ramp
>no planes
you guys host x-games?

The entire Australian nany

What the fuck is the point of this thread?

Also

> A FUCKING RAMP

Lol. Get the fuck out of here, idiot.

Retard. The american consumers pay for the insurance which pays the private drug companies that develop these new drugs for profit motive. Then, once the patent expires, you fucking vultures get the medicine for close to nothing. You're welcome. Without the capitalist non-socialized healthcare system, this mechanism wouldn't exist. It has nothing to do with government spending. You fuckin tard

NATO. For fucks sake burger, what do you think NATO stands for? NORTH ATLANTIC. Can you locate Australia on a map?

The fuck? Thailand has a carrier and we don't?

>a fucking island

WHY DON'T WE HAVE CARRIERS? WHY DON'T WE HAVE NUKES? WHAT THE FUCK?

Pay up shithead

And also fyi we spend 2% of GDP with a white paper currently to double that number.

why don't you fucking merge your army with Uk, Canada, NZ, etc.
1 commander in chief (the Queen) = 1 fucking army ffs.

Emu treaty forced denuclearization of australia

No. Shut the fuck up France.

The Queen is our commander in chief. In our constitution, her representative in Australia, the governor general (who's appointed by the Queen), is the commander in chief of the naval and military forces. This is the same for the other realms in the commonwealth.

This is also why many regiments are named "the Royal..." and why our naval ships are HMAS "Her Majesty's Australian Ship". In this sense we do have a merged army with one commander in chief.

>comparing what we know to be a mere figurehead position to what the baguette thinks it means

Don't be retarded

Hehe yeah true, just to clarify froggie, the gov. general doesn't actually do shit and for all intents and purposes is forced to listen to our Minister for Defence.

we don't
I think I've seen this argument used by burgers in relation to literally every country ever over the last year or so. It's total made up bullshit lol.

Sailor here
>mfw they didn't let us pull into Australia on deployment

>ramp

Thailand has an actual formidable enemy at their gates
you guys can pretty much tell whoever to fuck off from your godforsaken country

The Aussies aren't in NATO so I haven't really heard anyone give them a hard time over defence funding of late.

In fairness to them the do use their navy for actually sinking migrant invaders vessels and then they drop them off on some island where they set themselves on fire and shit.

Unlike here in Europe where our pathetic militaries don't even defend out borders. They are simply glorified ferries used to bring the scum to Italy.

Visits from U.S ships over the last decade or so seem to have decreased quite a bit. The whores are getting a bit restless.

Greeks need to defend against roaches

Greece has the biggest armoured force in Europe

You really don't know shit about our medical care system if you think that. Half of the population pay for their own private coverage. In fact, it's actually cheaper to pay for private care if you're above ~70k a year in wages because you're then exempt from the medicare levy (paying for social medical care).

tl;dr = hybrid system best system.