This is a wise step for Australia in terms of deterrence as much as I don’t trust Boeing or my government, it is has been pretty strange seeing some countries look at the Apache like it is outdated when it is probably one of the most successfully forward thinking weapon systems from the Cold War especially with the longbow radars.
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.
whiwake@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
BOEING KILLED JOHN BARNETT
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
yeah Boeing sketches me out, they didn’t really make this entire system though, they bought it so I am not really sure how much they can enshittify it in the way Boeing has its other stuff.
whiwake@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
Anyone who knows its faults would be killed for leaking them