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AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT MAR 2020 VOL.46 NO.2 LAND 400 PHASE 3 TURRETS & WEAPONS CHINA’S INTERVIEW: GROUND BASED MASSIVE NAVAL BUILD UP DEAN ROSENFIELD, SAAB AIR DEFENCE CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER eos-aus.com/defence DEFENCE SYSTEMS WORLD LEADING COUNTER DRONE TECHNOLOGY SINGLE ROUND, DIRECT HIT ENGAGEMENT WPN SU 104 102 26 Sep 2019 STAB : ON 18:45:38 AZ: + 3.5 DEG CAMERA : DAY CUASAPDRfullpageDraft.indd 1 27/02/2020 8:29:35 AM Print Post Approved PP349181/00104 FEATURES Managing Director/Publisher Marilyn Tangye Butler 10 TRITON PRODUCTION FREEZE Phone: +61 (0) 410 529 324 Email: [email protected] – AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE RAAF? We might be getting the deal of the century Editor AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT MAR 2020 Kym Bergmann VOL.46 NO.2 Phone: +61(0)412 539 106 Email: [email protected] 12 INFANTRY FIGHTING VEHICLES – TURRET SELECTION Contributors A complex business Vladimir Karnozov Arie Egozi Mark Farrer Mike Yeo 14 LAND 400 PHASE 3 VEHICLE WEAPONS Geoff Slocombe They will pack a considerable punch George Galdorisi Australia 17 SHORT RANGE GROUND BASED AIR DEFENCE Ventura Media Asia-Pacific Pty Ltd LAND 400 PHASE 3 PO Box 88, Miranda Good progress on LAND 19 Phase 7 NSW 1490 Australia ABN 76 095 476 065 TURRETS & WEAPONS 20 1ST PERSON INTERVIEW Singapore CHINA’S INTERVIEW: GROUND BASED MASSIVE NAVAL BUILD UP DEAN ROSENFIELD, SAAB AIR DEFENCE Raymond Boey CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER Dean Rosenfield, Saab’s new Chief Marketing Regional Manager Officer Block 729 #04-4280 Ang Mo Kio A Tentara Nasional Indonesia Army (TNI-AD) sniper takes aim Avenue 6, Singapore 560729 during a training exercise with Australian soldiers in East Java. 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The publisher cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage to uncommissioned photographs, manuscripts or other media. © Ventura Media Asia Pacific Pty Ltd 2019 Asia Pacific Defence Reporter MAR 2020 3 EDITOR'S LETTER THE COVID-19 PANIC – ANOTHER PREVIEW OF HOW NATIONS CAN BE DISRUPTED As it turns out, that might not have been enough around us. The nation could be largely paralysed due to various factors such as the slow incubation without a shot being fired – which, of course, is the period of COVID-19 and its relative ease of purpose of aggressive hybrid warfare. Safeguarding transmission – but that is only in hindsight and against this is partly a technical matter – but it it is difficult to see what more could have been is also societal. Young people need to be taught KYM BERGMANN // CANBERRA done from an Australian perspective based on the critical thinking and a desire not to necessarily take available evidence. However, what is a worry is the everything at face value. yber security and information warfare public reaction – or at least some sections of it – The mass media needs to be fact based, well experts experts must be thinking “we to the increasing possibility of the virus spreading. resourced, responsible, trusted and informative – C told you so”. If adversaries are looking for The most obvious – and ridiculous – manifestation though we have probably shut the stable door on ways of completely disrupting societies they need of this is the panic buying and stockpiling of toilet that one. People need to delete dodgy looking stuff look no further than the effects of the coronavirus. paper across the nation. This is so irrational, so on Facebook or Twitter – not to repeat and amplify it This is not a reference to biological warfare, but removed from reality, so inappropriate that one just because they can. The social media companies RHEINMETALL rather to the effects of disinformation, rumour, does not know whether to laugh or cry. themselves need to be far better at policing and panic – and in many cases an inadequate or During the last few years we have occasionally removing obviously false content aimed at fear untruthful initial Government response to what is a dealt with the threat of cyber warfare, including mongering for commercial or political gain. serious problem. the strong possibility that in a time of increased Even though COVID-19 is in its very early days Firstly, COVID-19 is not the Black Death – tension an adversary could go far beyond attacking and the amount of economic damage and loss 5 some versions of the plague have truly terrifying Australia’s national security infrastructure and of life could be very substantial, one hopes that mortality rates greater than 50% - or the even attempt to disrupt the entire country. There are the world might be learning a few lessons. Firstly, scarier Ebola, where once contracted death is plenty of realistic examples of the consequences China should have been much faster in responding almost certain at 90%. The current virus – the of a successful attack: mobile telecommunications and making public what was taking place in Wuhan spread of which is continuing rapidly and is likely networks either shut down completely – or even rather than going to extreme lengths to cover it to soon reach the definition of a pandemic – has a more infuriatingly switched on and off at random. up. Now the efficiency of a one-party authoritarian mortality rate of 2%, or about twenty times greater All ATMs simultaneously going offline; GPS signals state can be seen, with drastic measures in place than the average annual influenza epidemic that degraded – or much more dangerously, displaying curtailing the movements of around 700 million chemists advertise about every year on television. false information; widespread power blackouts. people in a desperate attempt to limit the effects At least COVID-19 seems to spare children – a Most people can relate in a practical way to of the virus. highly unusual feature in almost any infectious these sorts of events, for who amongst us has Another country that could have done a better disease. Nevertheless it is clearly a major public not been so busy and distracted that they have job is the U.S. – and putting an anti-science health risk and needs to be dealt with in a serious forgotten to pay the occasional phone or power bill, person in the form of Vice President Mike Pence and coordinated manner. despite continuous reminders? To that, Australia in charge of coordinating the response is not the Australia was hit hard by the bushfires – and can now add the potential effect of information best choice. He does not even believe in evolution, now we have another major national problem for operations on our open society. The toilet paper so how someone like that can take seriously the Government to contend with. In this case there nonsense appears to be entirely self-generated, the advice of the nation’s top doctors, scientists is no need for the Defence Forces to be mobilised but we can now start to visualise a future in which and researchers is a mystery. Also COVID-19 – though that might change depending on what an adversary might spread credible information that has become quickly politicised, with Republicans happens to our small and more vulnerable regional we were to run out of bread, or milk – or that the criticising the Democrats for finding fault with the allies, such as Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Government was about to declare that we are a initial response – and then turning around and Island nations. So far, the Government’s response republic, immediately making all existing currency blaming the Democrats in any case. has been appropriate, quickly cutting off travel worthless. Thankfully, Australia still clings to the remnants to the most obvious hot spots of China and Iran, If anyone any longer thinks that these sorts of of an intelligent debate on the topic – toilet paper quarantining people who might have been infected.