Labor pumps up to $5bn more into Australia’s drone programs


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

The upcoming Defence spending plan will include at least $2.2 billion extra to develop new small drones and expand existing uncrewed platforms like Ghost Bat and Ghost Shark, in moves that respond to changing modern warfare.

The new and or redirected spending on drones is part of a new Integrated Investment Program (IIP) and Defence Strategy to be released by Defence minister Richard Marles in Canberra on Thursday. It will …

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