In the Australian context the staying power of HMAS Australia during the brutal Philippines campaign in World War II comes immediately to mind, while in Vietnam in 1968 HMAS Hobart was quickly repaired and returned to full service after damaging hits from three Sparrow missiles. Unsurprisingly, wartime stories of ships surviving horrendous punishment yet still completing their operational tasking are legion. As such, warships are far more resilient to damage and much less mission sensitive in terms of defects than say airborne units. Survivability is an integral part of a warship’s design, with the key elements in the equation recognised as susceptibility, vulnerability and recoverability. (RAN)įor some reason a number of Defence commentators still maintain that surface warships, by their very nature, are excessively vulnerable. Except for the casualties among her anti-aircraft gun’s crews, her fighting efficiency was not impaired beyond the capacity of temporary repairs. During the invasion of Lingayen in January 1945, HMAS Australia (II) endured five kamikaze hits.
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