Liam Bartlett investigates critical gaps in our defense infrastructure.
7News Spotlight On Sunday it will investigate how critical defense infrastructure is alarmingly exposed.
What happens around a warship that is moored at a large tourist hotspot will shock viewers and raise urgent questions about our national security.
The research includes important military locations, including Pine Gap, Williamtown Raaf Base, Ambley Raaf Base and Garden Island Naval Base, where billions of dollars are housed in defense activa.
What is exposed are weaknesses in the protection of critical weapon systems: F-35A stealth hunters stored under shade cloth and naval vessels and our most important air basses that are subject to easy burglary.
Liam Bartlett said: We found billion dollars fighter jets that were stored under shade cloth, warships exposed to drones and critical bases protected by little more than cyclone screens. These are critical gaps in our defense capacity at a time when our opponents and neighbors invest like never before. “
Speaking with 7News Spotlight, warn former head of army Peter Leahy, in addition to important military experts and insiders in the industry, that the defense policy of Australia is perhaps insufficient for the realistic threats that we are confronted with.
Lieutenant General (RET) Peter Leahy said to Liam Bartlett: “This peace is coming quickly, so we’d better be ready for war. And I don’t think we’re ready for it.”
Bartlett also travels to the Philippines, to see how other countries are rising against the military aggression of China, while the Australia’s defense plan will not see us until at least 2030.
Liam Bartlett said: “Our research shows that although the threats are quickly evolving, Australia’s reaction is stuck in Slow Motion. We invest in submarines that we have not seen for ten years, while our current defenses are exposed and are equipped under.”
In the Philippines, Bartlett catches up with the Minister of Defense Richard Marles, who has been avoiding the questions of 7New Spotlight for months to discuss that a policy experts say that all words and not action are.
“You don’t want to be known as a minister for show bags,” said Bartlett. “There must be a substance for it.”
Sunday 8.50 pm on seven
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