Govt boosting Australia’s plan for guided missile manufacture a ‘very positive move’

USSC Foreign Policy and Defence Director Professor Peter Dean says the Labor government boosting Australia’s plan for guided missile manufacture is a “very positive move”. The government announced a significant boost to Australia's plan for domestic guided weapons manufacturing and acquisitions. “The guided weapons enterprise is a key pillar of the strategy that’s embedded within the Defence Strategic Review that the government has adopted,” he told Sky News Australia. “So along with programs like AUKUS and, of course, other programs to develop capability, this is really going to sit at the centre of what Australia’s developing for its defence and security going forward. “As we’ve seen from the lessons from Ukraine, for instance, that not only are these particular capabilities – the prism missiles, GMLRS missiles that are launched out of the HMAS batteries are particularly important on the battlefield, the ability to manufacture them domestically is absolutely key to Australia’s sovereign defence capability.”