Richard Farmer’s Chunky Bits, Item 15, yesterday, makes a good point in principle about the need to reconstruct the Department of Defence in detail, writes Neil James, executive director, Australia Defence Association.
Department of defence
Joint Strike Fighter strafes thousands of homes with noise
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has destroyed the value of thousands of homes in the Port Stephens area through revised noise exposure boundaries imposed last week.
What Defence didn’t tell about the Joint Strike Fighter
Aircraft range and payload matter — the greater these are, the better, and the same goes for missiles, writes Peter Goon.
Tips and rumours
Less than two weeks after announcing a $300M overrun on its Prominent Hill mining development, Oxiana has been ordered by the Department of Defence to immediately stop work on the 132kV powerline to the mine site. The Department of Defence Woomera defence range encompasses a vast tract of land including the Oxiana Prominent Hill Mine Site […]
