What are major capability implications of the Update?
The Update reports on recent major capability decisions, and their rationale. The breadth and geographic scope of contemporary commitments are such that the ADF must be able to project force across large distances, both in our region and beyond. We must also be able to supply and support these forces, and be interoperable with our key allies and coalition partners. The recent decisions, for example, to acquire three air warfare destroyers and two amphibious landing ships will help ensure the Navy is able to establish sea control and operate freely in our region, as well as undertake a range of missions from border protection, support of stabilisation and humanitarian missions, to warfighting. Initiatives strengthening the Army, including the Hardened and Networked Army (HNA), Enhanced Land Force initiative, and the M1A1 Abrams tanks, are aimed at allowing it to operate in more complex, dangerous and uncertain environments. Key Air Force capabilities of air combat and airlift are being
