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Australia is set to dramatically scale back the number of infantry fighting vehicles it buys for the army as part of a defence overhaul to be announced on Monday. The army had planned to acquire up to 450 infantry fighting vehicles, at a cost of up to $27bn, to replace Australia’s Vietnam war-era armoured personnel carriers. But a review, billed by the Albanese government as the most significant update of defence planning in nearly 40 years, will recommend reducing this number to just 129 vehicles, enough for one mechanised battalion. The government is likely to accelerate and expand numerous other...
