With upgrades to marine helicopters, Boeing 757s, and light armoured vehicles on the horizon, the $9 billion of new defence funding includes some long-overdue big-ticket hardware items.But Tuesday’s release of the 2025 Defence Capability Plan also signalled numerous investments in drones, cybersecurity, software and space-based systems that mirror in a small way what larger nations have been spending on as defence goes high-tech.Going big on dronesThe war in Ukraine fundamentally transformed modern warfare by elevating drones from supplem...
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