Reading the many comments that follow this article,
Defence cuts cripple the nation's options | The Australian, you could be forgiven for thinking you were on this thread on Pprune. (Bushranger71 is even to be found there.)
As funds dry up, (as the recent budget has shown they will), I wonder if there are not just a few currently wearing green who wish the huge amount of money already spent on a succession of Ferrari-style projects (none of which have delivered anything near to what they've promised) had been spent on utility equipment that (a) worked and (b) the ADF could afford to operate in meaningful numbers - i.e., something closer to what Bushranger71 has been calling for?