re: #68 No Malarkey!
It looks like a big fight about what defense contractor gets boatloads of money, so I just don’t care.
Personally, the way this has gone:
Ok, we go with the Japanese…
Nah, we put it out to tender again…
Well, it’s the French that have got it…
No, we’re going with a US/UK system…
At each stage refusing off-the-shelf solutions and insisting on new designs.
I wonder how much of those billions is going into kickbacks for the famously honest Australian political class.