The RAAF in the 21st century

New missiles, planes and drones will give Australia’s air force the additional range and power it needs to defend our country in the years ahead.

Are manned fighters obsolete?

Elon Musk has told an American Air Force conference that ‘the fighter jet era has passed’. The British Defence Minister Duncan Sandys said the same thing in 1957, launching a disastrous white paper which destroyed much of the British aircraft industry. Is Musk right this time? Or is he making the same mistake of 63 years ago?