There is no branch of the Australian Defence Force that has an armed drone, says The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan.
“Neither the Air Force, nor the Navy, nor the Army, nor even the civilian boffins who has access to an armed drone,” Mr Sheridan told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“Everybody is acquiring drones, except ‘Fort Fumble’ in Canberra, where we don’t have a single drone.
“We spend $50 billion a year on defence.
“I don’t think there’s a country on God’s green Earth that spends its defence dollars more ineffectively than we do.”
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Ukraine is world number #1 with drones.
Drone is a waste of money as it is not reliable for defence it can be controlled by opponents and backfire… St.Thomas
The state of our military is an absolute disgrace. No drone capabilities at all! At this rate, I would not be surprised if the government doesn’t completely outsource the military out of sheer incompetence.
Well said Greg, as an ex aussie soldier it's very disheartening
Australia was asked late 1995 to send a ship to the Persian Gulf early 1996 when I was serving in the RAN. "Yep , sure" said Paul Keating. "Off you go" said John Howard. What has gone wrong?
And its only just occurred to Sky. Our military has been under equipped for at least 20 years. But all of a sudden, its Labors fault. Last I heard we were exporting our hardware to Ukraine, drones, drone killers and bushmasters to name just a few. But Credlin wont mention that.
Because you spend more time in meetings and talking shit than substance. Australia runs on creating and managing Narratives, so just pretend you are winning.
No need to worry about this issue until we come under attack 🤪
Apart from F35, our military is 70 years behind.
As for Cadets, I looked at signing my son up, when I got on to the local unit website and it said they were full. The problem with recruitment seem to lag the time time to get in. Once you sign up you should be in within 3 months.
Whats new, Austrlian Army has been poorly equiped for years.
Australia needs to become neutral. Fighting in a war that no one can win is madness.
Dear #ADF, you can appeal your decision🤣🤣🤣🦞
Wow iflation going down tax cuts and then now they talking about spending more money on the militery
MQ-28 GHOST BAT can shoot rown dozens of drones…we have 10 built un Australia upto July 2023 …thise 10 were built after 3 prototypes were proven .. and 20 were built in about 4 months …those 10 begin service in 2024. I have seen them flying over my house …they are real. Why are you saying we dont have drones, MQ-28 is an autonomous AI aircraft ….about the size of a lear jet with a jet propelled. It is a multirole wingman jet aircraft . We NEED 2000 OF THEM !!
Didn’t we give Ukraine a whole bunch of cheap to make cardboard drones? Why the hell aren’t we using them instead? Why give another nation something if it leaves our armed forces completely devoid of the equipment given?
How bout Albos son volunteer for the military for Australias defence.
Australia has in the last twenty years given a billion dollars to Palestine, so they have drones ,para gliders, ammunition and tens of thousands of missiles.
Sorry the socialists have made Australia as weak as we can be.
Ask penny wong to get a favor from her beloved Hamas
i doubt israel will ever deal with your haven for islamist and Nazi decedents country with any military tech.
not all of you
but we wont trust you to not stand by like most EU did less than a decade ago
I'm an ex Naval reserve cadet NRC in my last 12 months they abolished the reserve part of all existing Naval cadet units.
Before the reserve part was abolished, our officers always made sure that we never forgot that fact, and always stated that in the event of a war braking out if reserves were mobilised then we would be some of the first to be call to service.
Got to spend time on an ANZAC frig as well. I went to CERBERUS. It was a lot of fun, and I got to experience a full from.start to finish, passing out parade in full black dress uniform.
But they stopped that as well and started babying and bubble wrapping the cadets that joined as I was on my way out.
The government has been watering down potential recruit pools now for the last 20 years.
You know God forbid teenagers get trained to have respect, discipline, and instilled pride for their nation.
Defence spends its money on woke engineering policies.
How are armed drones not considered a war crime?
Money saved for Albo's holiday trips.
Marles & Albo couldn't find their arses
How many drones can 440 million dollars buy? The amount Albo wasted on the failed Voice referendum.
Greg Sheridan ,if you knew what conditions exist in PNG you might think that Chinese management would be a good idea.That country is an absolute basket case and the anarchy is unbelievable.I know because I have spent time there.Port Moresby is now considered to be the 2nd most dangerous city in the world behind some banana republics city.Some Chinese hard line discipline would pull that country out of the more.
There are new projects in drone development never considered by anyone , the process of making the projects acknowledged it’s a fake 👎👎👎