Originally Posted by
finestkind
typerated not to certain where you are headed. The post is about fighting fires and the use of ADF assets in doing so.
I would have thought it was pretty obvious where it is heading!
Undoubted the ADF should be 'defending' the country though - what could be more priority!
How much have they spent in the sandpit and for what?
But while aircraft are of useful value in fire fighting, they are far from a silver bullet. - and become less so as the climate changes, fires get bigger and the ground drier.
A few more aircraft will be useful but a drop in the ocean when you consider what the forecasted environment has in store for us...
Having been evacuated early this year with a bushfire, aircraft were pretty impotent in aggressive conditions.
Seeing Scott Morrison's denials just make me think we are doomed. I do wonder how far down this road we will go before the penny really drops where we are going!