@walbrook; media reports today that Australia is upgrading the US Abrams tanks taxpayers forked out $550 million for in yesterday's money for an even more useless and even more expensive version that will also never see active duty is a prime example of just how incredibly stupid our politicians are.
ADF waste on ships that break down at sea, submarines that are corroded out, choppers with dud engines, tanks that never get used and fighter planes that are unfit for service in Australia is screaming at us to cremate the entire organisation and commence a greenfield rebuild.
Even worse, we're enabling the USA to establish Australia as pone of its forward bases for military/ cyber operations - we've become a prime nuclear target.
