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New Zealand could benefit from Australia building a wall of military drones to keep China at bay.
A defence analyst said Ukraine provides the inspiration for a much larger wall, possibly of three layers of air drones and sea drones too.
Dr Malcolm Davis has written about this for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), saying the Australian platform may work better, if allies co-operated.
"To essentially add in a New Zealand layer to an Australian drone wall, that could be very useful," he said.
"If, for example, China were to get a forward military presence into the southwest Pacific, I think that it would be highly useful to have a New Zealand component to this.
"That would effectively plug-and-play into the Australian system, and we'd be w
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