13. However, four years after this recognition, the Department has still not yet decided whether it will install this equipment on FSTA, citing that the need for FSTA to fly into high threat environment is not completely self-evident.
I'm a bit bemused by the thought that the honourable gentlemen couldn't foresee a time when the new FSTA would be required to fly into a high threat environment. We have armed forces, we expect to use them, we don't know where or when this will happen, but we won't equip our new fleet to cope with a current, let alone a future threat.
At the time of the report we were still in both Iraq and Afghanistan and won't be leaving the latter until 8 years after the report was written.