00:00What's the game of the episode?
00:14And your time is up?
00:16I'm your time, I'm your time.
00:21I'm your time, and I'll see you again.
00:24I'm your time to stay here.
00:26I'm your time to get you all together.
00:30It's the target of the countries that are participating, of course.
00:52We've got 19 countries here, they all come for a multitude of reasons.
00:58Australian training ranges offer the ability to, what we've just seen in the last hour,
01:03to employ systems that many countries can't do in their homeland to test the interoperability,
01:09or can we come together?
01:11So we just observed a HIMARS firing that had Singaporean, Australian and US vehicles all together for it.
01:18What they would have had to have done is made sure their procedures were compatible,
01:23their ability to apply safety was compatible with each other,
01:27that they are able to manoeuvre into firing positions and then fire and do the post-firing checks.
01:33Countries come because they want to both be experts with themselves,
01:38but like Australia, we recognise we're stronger when we're operating with partners.
01:42This is why we have 19 countries here partnering to make sure they're as capable with each other as they can be.
01:49The environment having changed now where our focus is very much in the region and in the homeland,
02:09the shifting availability of military technology means that countries don't have to come close to Australia as they did in the past.
02:17We had thought the sea air gap, the waters to our north were a great protective buffer.
02:23Well, modern weaponry very quickly traverses that gap now.
02:27So we have to respond to that and it means that the idea of protecting the homeland,
02:33it means that countries don't have to come close to us to present a threat or to seek to potentially impact the way a government might make decisions.
02:43It can do it from afar and we have to be able to respond to that.
02:46We have to respond to that.
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