By Rowan Moffitt*
At a time when the Defence Strategic Review (DSR) told us Australia faces the greatest strategic risk in 80 years, our Navy is unfit to deliver the maritime defence strategy the government proposes. It is older, has less firepower, is less reliable and has a lower level of availability than a generation ago. One measure is the Fleet’s missile cell count, which in 1995 was 77% higher than today.
