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Leverage Allied Investments and Combat Learning Experience in Modernizing the U.S. Military

Obviously, the acceleration of US force modernization would occur from leveraging allied technologies. Just
as obvious is that allied capabilities would be enhanced as well as the US invested in their efforts and cross-
learned. Moving onto Wedgetail for the USAF is hardly a difficult concept and if the USAF did so rather than
waiting for the distant future for a new plane, then USAF investments along with RAAF investments and
perhaps those from South Korea could see the capability of the platform accelerate as well.
As a recently retired senior RAAF officer put it: “we could really make the Wedgetail awesome with some
USAF technology injects. We could fund the upgrades which would take it so much further.”

So let us get on with it if we can get out of the Washington DC hermetically sealed thought bubble.

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