The Australian Army has test-fired its new Precision Strike Missile for the first time from a remote training base, with the defence industry minister saying the new weapon will be a powerful deterrent to potential adversaries.

New title: ADF gets to play with American toys, while they don’t need them.

Seriously, if this doesn’t result in full control of production and independent use, then these things are useless to be included in defence plans of Australia.

We’d be better off without them, knowing we absolutley don’t have the capability, instead of having the possibility of the rug pulled, like what has happened to Ukraine.

    • eurekaMEnglish
      8·
      17 days ago

      500km isn’t even from Sydney to Melbourne. Couldn’t even launch them at Pine Gap.

      • Leet@lemmy.zip
        2·
        16 days ago

        Yeah maybe if they put it way up north they can launch them at a few huts in Papua New Guinea

        • Gorgritch_Umie_KillaOP
          2·
          17 days ago

          Isn’t the problem with ICBMs that a tarfet nation doesn’t necessarily know its non-nuclear and therefore you get into a sprt of game theory situation where the strongest possible answer is the only coreect answer?