"Anonymous" wrote in message
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The Raven wrote in message ...
Fair enough, perhaps I should have clarified.......................but
it's
not like a nation is going to have heaps of aircraft without a decent
population.

Britain's got a fair size airforce, hasn't it ?

and their population V Austs?


I'd have thought that Australia would have had more aircraft due to the
size
of the territory they have to defend.

But you need to factor in that Australia needs to provide services and
infrastructure to a country the size of the USA with a population of 20
million, it means that a lot of tax money is already spent.


The fact that Australia is entirely surrounded by oceans means that it
needs
to be able to guard its coastline.

Most of the population is coastal, and is concentrated in and around the
major cities, so I suppose that's where the airforce will be concentrated.

But they will still need to prevent any potential threats making a landing
on the coast in a secluded area and then setting up base on Australian
soil.


No credible attacker has that capability.