Why is Australia buying hundreds of missiles?
- Written by James Dwyer, Associate Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania
Flying under the radar of last week’s AUKUS submarine announcement was the revelation that the United States had agreed to sell Australia up to 220 Tomahawk cruise missiles.
This follows Australia’s purchase in January of “high mobility artillery rocket systems”, known as HIMARS, which have been used by Ukraine on the...
