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Steve Visscher
Co-host of the Plane Crazy Down Under aviation podcast and producer of the Australian Defence Magazine Podcast; Melbourne-based pilot, news presenter and audio producer.
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Sep 1, 2026
Ep.232 - Plane Crazy Australian Defence
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16:18Grant McHerronGUEST
Steve, I believe we've got an episode coming out in the near future on drones, haven't we?
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16:26Steve VisscherGUEST
Yeah, well, I mean, the interesting thing about drones, and we're seeing that everywhere around the world, is the such rapid development cycles that go around it.
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16:32Steve VisscherGUEST
So, you know, when you go to a, you know, defence manufacturer and they might talk about development cycles being, you know, three months where so, you know, technology that you've got coming out now is potentially already going to be obsolete by the time it goes in theatre.
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16:49Steve VisscherGUEST
But when it comes to defending Australia, one of the things we rely on a lot traditionally, I think, probably is the tyranny of distance.
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16:56Steve VisscherGUEST
It makes it difficult for a potential enemy to sustain a logistics trail, if nothing else, if they're going to come to our major population centres.
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17:05Steve VisscherGUEST
But now that we're looking at these technologies and the way they're developing, that's becoming less of a problem for any potential enemy.
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22:49Grant McHerronGUEST
And Steve, I think you've picked up a lot of information thanks to osmosis from listening to all these episodes we put out, haven't you?