The government will announce a multibillion-dollar package to purchase and manufacture missiles in a 'radical change' to protect Australia in potential future conflicts, but there are delay concerns.
revealed some of the government's top priority missile programs will be put on hold until another report is made.
The Defence Strategic Review revealed the government may not be advised on domestic manufacturing and"options for the increase of guided weapons" will not be decided until the second half of 2024. Picture: Martin Ollman/Getty Images "What we inherited was the prospect of maybe manufacturing in 2027. We really believe we can bring it forward such that we will be manufacturing these missiles in a couple of years."
Stefanovic questioned if the Defence Minister believed long-range strike weapons could be operational"in a couple of years" amid strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific. "I would have thought if this is a whole of government and whole of nation challenge, as Sir Angus Houston and Stephen Smith said, then there's not a moment to lose and we need to move faster," he stressed.
He also took a swipe at the government and called for more defence funding amid the slashing of a number of infantry fighting vehicles to help fund the new priorities.
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