Looks like Australia is only country in the world
able to support dwindling military's weapon manufacturing business
with non existent trillions of dollars
in those hard times.
F35 -done, other planes too
Submarines- ok twice
armored vehicles and tanks
helicopters
frigates.
Actually the existence of the biggest weapons manufactures seems to depend on orders from small down under country.
The funny paradox is that expenses are directly sponsored by enemy, who pays for all those weapons intended to kill them.
I guess that in ideal world we could buy tractors, paint them white, mark with UN sign and sent to those in need, poor countries
and islands under our watch.

I wonder if we could fulfill our sponsorships obligation to our landlords by making orders on those, painting them white
and sending army into green fields to fight hunger.
Ironically if everybody else do the same and send tractors to those poorest countries,
immigration from those nation will dry up completely
as those people will be busy making food , profits
and happy to stay where they are born.
But who will work hard labor in lazy western world without cheap immigrant labor?
So we do send them rather army and weapons to scary them from own land and look for safety overseas.