Recently, the navy of the superpower has amassed a Red Sea escort bureau, but the Australian Navy, which has always been very active in the South China Sea and the East China Sea, is unwilling to participate, and the reason why it is unwilling to participate in this low-end bureau is very simple, that is, it really has no extra ships at home as a mining tyrant.
The main surface forces of the Australian Navy are three Hobart-class destroyers, eight Anzac-class frigates (it also has the name Anzac-class), as well as two Canberra-class amphibious landing ships, one Bay-class dock landing ship, and four Adelaide-class frigates. The Australian Navy's amphibious landing ships and dockyard landing ships are of little use in the Red Sea, their weaponry is difficult to carry out escort missions, and it is impossible for Australia to transport its only 59 tanks to the Middle East to encircle (and effectively suppress) the Houthis. The main equipment that Australia can mobilize is 15 frigates and destroyers.
Among these 15 warships, three Hobart-class destroyers are the absolute main combat force, and it is the only three Aegis-class destroyers in the Australian Navy, which can launch Standard II air defense missiles, can intercept missiles that are attacking from outside dozens of kilometers, and have relatively strong air defense combat capabilities. The Anzac-class frigates and Adelaide-class frigates not only do not have the Aegis system, but their main anti-aircraft firepower is the Sea Sparrow short-range anti-aircraft missile, and the maximum range of this missile in the latest version is only 50 kilometers (the actual air defense distance is more than 30 kilometers). The Australian Navy's destroyers and frigates do not have Tomahawk cruise missiles and no land-attack capabilities, and if they are stationed in the Red Sea, they will face the threat of a large number of anti-ship missiles and drones from the Houthis.
The Houthis, however, have Persian Gulf anti-ship missiles with a range of more than 300 kilometers and a re-entry speed of Mach 4, which pose a great threat to Anzac-class and Adelaide-class frigates that do not have standard missile defense. When the Persian Gulf anti-ship missiles attacked the Anzac-class frigates and the Adelaide-class frigates, the Sea Sparrow missiles of the two frigates had only about three seconds to react, and the crew could be wiped out in the slightest blink of an eye. Even if the Australian Navy dispatched a Hobart-class destroyer, and the ship was equipped with the latest model and the longest-range standard missile (the US imperialist has always had strict restrictions on the sale of standard missiles, and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force purchased the missile, but the storage location was the US military warehouse on Guam, and the Japanese military could only take it out and use it after greeting it), its maximum theoretical range could only reach 240 kilometers, and it had an interception time of 18 seconds in front of the Persian Gulf anti-ship missile.
Finally, and most crucially, Yemen's Houthis also have the geographical advantage of deploying anti-ship ballistic missiles in the Persian Gulf near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, reducing the attack range to 28 kilometers and reducing the enemy's reaction time to about two seconds. The Houthis also have a large number of drones, and at one point they used drone tactics to halve Saudi Arabia's oil production. In the event of encountering naval vessels of the US imperialists and their allies, it can use drones to massively deplete the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower and then attack with anti-ship ballistic missiles. The Australian Navy can only dispatch a maximum of five ships if it dispatches naval forces, and it can only dispatch one or two ships to the Red Sea (one-tenth of the surface force) according to US military standards. If the Houthis accidentally go berserk, the Australian Navy may lose money.
Unlike the Houthis, which wear slippers, the eastern powers are respectful of decency and will not strike at Australia's maritime power until it officially turns around. Therefore, the Australian Navy dared to touch porcelain in the South China Sea and other places, but did not dare to go to the Red Sea region to play soy sauce, because the other party is really "barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes".