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Opinion: Australia is being left badly under-equipped for the drone era
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The government’s headline $7 billion counter-drone plan is largely smoke and mirrors, spreading funds over a decade into legacy systems while leaving Australia underprepared for high-volume drone warfare.
We’re meant to be celebrating the Albanese government’s amazing new plan to adapt the Australian military to the drone era, with Minister Pat Conroy telling us about an apparent $7 billion investment in counter-drone systems.
But before we pop the champagne corks, it’s worth looking behind the hoopla. Like the “Great and Powerful” Wizard of Oz, who turns out to be a small but jovial carnival showman from Kansas, the truth is something much more mundane hiding behind the government’s curtain of hype.
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