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[Takao]

Pretty sure Albanese promised to spend $10 billion on automated drones over the next decade.i am not so much concerned that the MQ-28 is not going to be funded. More concerned that it and other automated systems might be over hyped.

I think you underestimate the number of drone projects that exist within the ADF. Between undersea, surface, land and atmosphere there are more than $10 b worth of ideas...

But my point wasn't that MQ-28A would be unfunded. It was more an indication that drone =/= cheap. A fleet of useful size will cost billions, which needed to be added to all the other priorities. What falls away is a question that the ADF needs to be asking now, and quite frankly, the RAAF needs to work some of this stuff out sooner rather than later.