An Israeli solution may offer the best value-for-money for the integrated air-and-missile defence (IAMD) capability that Australia urgently needs. The Australian Defence Force and Australian civilian infrastructure are facing a plethora of advanced air and missile threats, including fast, hard-to-intercept ones such as ballistic missiles, hypersonic boost-glide missiles and now weapons that reach orbit before descending. China’s DF-27 ballistic missile has a range of 5,000 to 8,000 km, and its H-20 stealth bomber, still in development, will have a range exceeding 10,000 km, implying a radius of more than 5,000 km. These distances are enough to directly threaten Australia, so it’s no wonder that the 2023 Defence Strategic Review determined that the ADF must urgently field an IAMD capability. This would consist of batteries of interceptor missiles, launchers, radars and control vehicles, all placed for protection of priority targets and knitted together by an information network that passes target data and commands.
For air-and-missile defence, Israel offers the economic solutions | The Strategist
