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As one Australian Army brigade bulks up with armor, its fuel and ammo needs spike
Defense News Institutional·2026-06-29AUS DefenceP2: Fiscal EngineP3: Industrial BaseP6: Defence Surge
Why it matters
3rd Brigade's 630% vehicle-fleet expansion and 7.5× fuel-demand growth represent Australia's largest military recapitalization since WWII, directly enhancing maritime-defence lethality but exposing a critical logistical vulnerability: diesel supply. This modernization is on-track and ambitious, but reveals a strategic gap in fuel reserves and supply-chain resilience that could become catastrophic under Hormuz closure, cyber attack on refineries, or pandemic-supply disruption.
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