Surely the ADF is not dumb enough to jump in where the South Africans have bailed out?
You forget the largest and most secret department in Canberra, one that's been operating at 110% capacity for decades now... the Department of Let's Go Overseas And Buy a Failed Scheme."
We've been doing this for years now, and not just in Defence. There seems to be this overriding belief in Canberra that, having seen a system fail when tried overeas,
we can get it right.