Sukarno stays in power - what would Australia do?

[Volkodav]

I suspect the only reason Australia got F-111 was replacing the Canberra became an election issue with the opposition pointing to an air force still waiting for its first supersonic fighter and having no supersonic strike aircraft in sight, while our northern neighbour was flying shiny new soviet types. Nothing triggers action more than the thought of losing government.

Yes it was around this time the "lets buy a couple of FRAM Gearings" to increase the size of the fleet, became DDGs with proposals to convert the Darings and Battles to DDGs. Also the cheap L2A1 AR and converted 7.62 Brens as LMGs became an M-60 acquisition. A decade of stuff all since Korea, became an urgent spend fest.