Senate needs to recall Rear Admiral Greg Sammut -Sammut and defence officials may have misled Senate in the course of giving Pauline Hanson their "submarines 101 lesson".
by Ganesh Sahathevan Its appears that Rear Admiral Greg Sammut may have given away more than he intended,while attempting to make Senator Pauline Hanson look stupid. As reported by SBS : Pauline Hanson has been given a submarines 101 lesson by senior defence force officers. The One Nation leader attempted to grill the officers about Australia's $50 billion submarine project during a Senate estimates hearing in Canberra on Wednesday. French shipbuilder Naval Group has been awarded the design contract for a fleet of 12 vessels. "Is it true that pump-jet submarines can only stay underwater for 20 minutes," Senator Hanson asked. Rear Admiral Greg Sammut, who heads up the submarine program, patiently explained engineering features to the senator. "A pump jet is a form of propeller, it has no bearing on how deep a submarine can go, how long it can stay under water," he said. There were a number of factors including battery capacity that influenced time underwater. ...