About this episode
The episode discusses the ongoing aerial bombardment of Iran by the US and Israel, the implications for Australia, and recent defense agreements in the region.
The unrelenting aerial bombardment of Iran by the US and Israel continues - with no known end point. Israel would probably like to keep attacking forever and in the case of the US, it might stop when President Trump gets bored. Gulf states have called for assistance from a number of countries to counter Iran's aerial attacks, including Australia. The sad reality is that with an annual Defence budget of almost $60 billion there's not a lot we can send. Army has a good ground based system called NASAMS but it's not optimised for this sort of conflict - and there are likely to be major problems with the resupply of the main weapon it uses, the AIM-120 AMRAAM. In the meantime, South Korea has signed a huge defence technology cooperation agreement with the UAE. This could have been Australia but we are too slow, too dim and too obsessed with the US to take advantage of numerous offers that have been made. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Topics covered
- military conflict
- defense budget
- international relations
- aerial bombardment
- defense technology
- Gulf states
Keywords
- Iran
- US
- Israel
- Australia
- defense budget
- NASAMS
- AIM-120 AMRAAM
- South Korea
- UAE
- military cooperation
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: US, Israel, Army, South Korea, UAE
Products: NASAMS, AIM-120 AMRAAM
Places: Iran, Australia
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