Wanting Australian drones but buying foreign instead – by Dr Peter Layton

Published on July 31, 2024

In late February the Minister for Defence Industry launched the Defence Industry Development Strategy.

Overall, this is an impressive piece of staff work by Defence’s bureaucrats.

To be successful though, the strategy needs to be implemented; verbiage is not enough.

A striking gap between words and actions has been exposed in the latest buys of drones for the Australian Army.

On 8 July, Defence announced the Switchblade drone would be bought from US company AeroVironment.

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