There are a lot of Australians who are aware of the asymmetric...

There are a lot of Australians who are aware of the asymmetric power of drones in a conflict, unlike the inertia bound department of defence. Why we still haven't a drone capability nor a drone defensive EOS weponry defies logic. And now according to the ABC the ADF bright sparks are funding a Melbourne based mob to develop what EOS press releases claim to already have...

"Defence has for the first time awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to a Melbourne company to trial its "directed energy" (DE) technology as a way of combating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which are being used with devastating effect in the Ukraine war.DE weapons concentrate large amounts of electromagnetic energy on a remote target, in the form of light (a laser), or alternatively, microwaves and radio waves can be used.Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A massive technological transformation is underway across the Australian Army with the introduction of hundreds of new drones.Under a $4.9 million contract awarded to AIM Defence, the firm expects to deliver its Fractl:2 DE system to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) for ongoing counter-drone testing and evaluation by the middle of this year.According to AIM Defence, the advanced technology is powerful enough to burn through steel while also precise enough to track down and shoot a drone travelling at 100kph when fired from several kilometres away."