Katherine.

This is coolbert:

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Australia looks north?

"Australia to Spend $726 Million to Upgrade Strategic Northern Airbase"

As originally from Reuters and as seen at the Internet web site Epoch Times.

"Australia will spend A$1.1 billion ($725.9 million) to upgrade an airbase in the country’s tropical north, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday, a development that increases Canberra’s military armory in the Pacific."

"The base in the regional town of Katherine in Australia’s Northern Territory will be the home of the country’s new fleet of F-35 strike fighters once the upgrade is finished in 2027."

Correct [?] also that those F-35 fighter planes needing improved and appropriate infrastructure for base-ing, mission not possible otherwise?

See additionally previous blog entries [with further embedded links] as revlavant:

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2018/11/manus.html

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2017/04/mrf-2017.html 

coolbert.