The Defence White Paper looks a little boring with nothing here really that would be considered Earth shattering for ADF aviation. We were already well down the track of KC-30A, MRH90 (for Army and Navy), Wedgetail, Caribous were always going to be replaced (and 10 replacements has been mentioned a few times already, that's why we have an Interim Replacement Program underway) and F Model Chooks was well known. Although the replacement of the S-70B-2s with 24 replacements was a bit surprising as was the two extra J models and retirement of the H models (though that was always going to happen).
I wonder what the White Paper looked like before Treasury got to it.
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