Every dollar spent is a dollar not spent elsewhere. Army has a finite budget as does every single project, including LAND 400. Were this to be done as you suggest, something else would have to give. There are entire battalions for example in the Army Orbat for example that today are not even equipped with Javelin ATGW, let alone the next-generation of ATGW. So which is the higher priority? Giving all of our units a proper anti-armour capability or vehicles which aren't deploying anyway, one?
Army doesn't go anywhere without conducting lead-up training, mission rehearsal exercises and the like. In the lead up to such, is when all the "fruit" comes out of the cupboard and the platforms are equipped to their full deployable spec.
Every Army operates this way.
Army is undertaking another restructure and army is getting a lot of new kit and capability that it has not had before.
Dynamic times.
I would have accepted this response ten years ago, but not with the rhetoric of the recent reviews.
Times have changed dramatically.
In a balanced ADF we need a capable Army.
One that does not look like the one going forward
argue the structure and composition till the cows come home but sometimes it’s just numbers
Numbers of platforms and equipment with the number of trained people to employ said items .
it costs I get it
Im a bit guarded about how much reserve”fruit is in the cupboard” patiently awaiting for service and the assumption an adversary will accomodate our training / buildup expectations.
When we start debating about such absolutely small numbers of items like ATGMs and the like I cant help but feel we have lost perspective of how compromised our Army has become over the decades.
it costs I get
Thats the answer
Funds
Cheers S
