These will never be used in anger in Australia, they will never be used for national defence. Anyone with supply lines long enough to land actual forces in Australia won’t have an issue with these, we also have zero militia and would be overwhelmed in weeks. Our best defence is hostile terrain, and vast land mass. When they find Dezi Freeman they should give him a job to train volunteer militia forces.

We have near zero logistial base (munitions and the ability to move it) eg Ukraine would have lost long ago if not for its trains. We have roads you can’t move an Abrahams down and a wet season that makes much of the north of the nation impassable.

Theres no looking to Ukraine, we’re at the arse end of the world, we don’t have a border you can amass forces at and walk across. The only countries with conventional resources and forces big enough to do anything significant are China and the US. We can do zero against either. The only other nation is perhaps Indonesia and they don’t have the logistics.

I’d suggest rhe US is the greater danger but they’re already here with bases and we do as they tell us, so they have no need.

These are perfomative, used for training in Aus and perhaps deployment overseas to support the US invading wherever it wants.