"Doing our part to fulfill the shared responsibility all of us have to preserve peace and security," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. "And making it crystal clear that when it comes to any unilateral attempt to change the status quo by force: be it in Taiwan, the South China Sea, the East China Sea or elsewhere, the risk of conflict will always far outweigh any potential reward."
"It can be difficult to make these systems work in practice. I expect that it will take quite a bit of money, time and focus to get a system like this actually operating," said David Brewster, a senior fellow at Australian National University's National Security College.
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"What I have said, and we maintain, is that the relationship with China will remain a difficult one," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said at his swearing in. "It is China that has changed, not Australia."
"In their last three years in Government, Labor cut Defence spending by 10.5 per cent in real terms," while the current government says "Our Government has increased investment in defence to more than two per cent of GDP."
The howitzer deal may help South Korea in the much larger competition for Australia's replacement for the M113 Armored Personnel Carriers.
Australia’s ambassador to the US, Arthur Sinodinos, confirmed unequivocally that the “mature” submarines his country will buy will use highly enriched uranium: “The subs would be using HEU, and we’re just working out now the arrangements what that will mean in practice.”
Blending superior optics, advanced stabilization and AI-powered autonomy in a compact and rugged system, ASELFLIR 600 delivers unmatched intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.