Why choose the Joint Strike Fighter as the RAAFs future fighter when it cannot beat Russian designed Sukhoi fighter being purchased by regional nations?
The simple answer: mistakes were made by some individuals, no longer in the Department, who laid the foundations of this decision. The decision has now been inherited by the current leadership, who find themselves in the politically difficult position of how to advise their political masters that mistakes have been made without getting it in the neck.
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