Many have noted that. It’s an interesting situation when one of the current ‘attacks’ on previous handling of defence was”all” announcement and no substance.Unfortunately it seems that a number of the acquisition contracts are not being pursued with haste, with there being an apparent mismatch between rhetoric about what the security situation is and likely will be vs. steps being taken to actually attempt to meet said threats.
The new and significant acquisition that I most recall is for the RGM-109E Tomahawks with some 220 to be acquired. However it now looks as though the Hobart-class DDG's might be the only launch platform in ADF service until ~2034 or later. In that regards, it leaves me with the impression that a number of the changes proposed or in the process of being implemented for Defence is more to make it look like improvements are being made, rather than actually having steps taken to improve Defence.
Yet we are seeing the same thing now, with things like the Tomahawk announcement which was made from memory on no less than 4 occasions and which we still won’t see for several years and even then only from a single platform… Not to mention other capabilities which were deliberately slowed, such as HIMARS and the new Blackhawks…