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Australia is going to allow the US to base some nuclear-capable B-52 Stratofortess bombers in northern Australia.
China's Foreign Ministry was this week reportedly not happy.
Today I have some insider's knowledge on this.
This is not new, it has been in the works for years, and the Chinese - and the world - would know that much better than me.
These giant machines would be located at Australia's biggest RAAF Base which is at Tindal, just outside the outback town of Katherine in the Northern Territory.
The Americans and the Australians have been spending big there in recent years beefing up the base.
That includes more hangars, more accommodation, even dedicated fuel storages and bomb depots for the Americans.
They have been paying for it.
This is all military posturing for the most part but some readers might be interested to learn what the locals think about it.
If the Chinese are so worried, that surely makes Tindal a target.
Tindal is home to a few thousand military personnel.
It is about 15km east of Katherine, population about 10,000 - the NT's fourth biggest town.
The town shares the airport with the RAAF, the civilian part is down one end, the off-limits military part down the other end.
We, the taxpayers, have been spending a lot of money extending and strengthening Tindal's airstrip in recent years.
One of the reasons for that was so the Americans could station some of the B-52's there.
None of this is a secret.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison had a press call there in 2020 to shout it from the proverbial rooftops.
Tindal is Australia's first response base for any attacks on the country.
It has been re-equipped with the new F-35 Lightning jet fighters.
I missed their deployment to Tindal's No. 75 Squadron by a year.
During my time there, it was the F/A-18 Hornets which buzzed the local skies.
A pair of them used to start the footy season each year with a noisy fly-past.
I once spent some time on that Tindal runway, taking pictures of the Hornets taking off.
I enjoyed a good relationship with the boss out at Tindal, I grew to like military hardware, what can I say.
That's why we got to interview a group of US pilots who flew in with their F-22 Raptor fighter jets.
To me the Raptors were a lot more impressive than B-52's.
Some might wonder why stick our biggest and best RAAF Base in the middle of nowhere?
It's there by design.
Darwin came a little unstuck during World War II when the Japanese flattened the joint, several times.
It was thought any enemy would have to fly instead over land for 300km's and could give better defence warning for those at Tindal, than coastal Darwin.
It was also thought being outside the possible nuclear bomb blast radius of Darwin would be a good thing.
The locals get on well with the base for the most part.
The fact the base poisoned the town's water with the PFAS chemicals they used in fire fighting foams has caused upset.
But the current occupants of the base played no part in that.
There is no supermarket on the base, or schools - again by design.
The Tindal folk support the local town, many of them choose to live there, supporting all sorts of community and sporting groups.
The locals put up with rattling windows, although night-time exercises can be a source of complaints.
Lots of Tindal's contractors live in the town, spend money in the town, and employ a lot of people from the town.
Most locals think they are very fortunate the base is where it is.
The arrival of more military planes won't phase them much.
There has been some discussion about the Americans wanting to better protect their assets if they do actually keep the bombers there full-time.
That discussion has centred on a missile defence.
Now that would no doubt get the spy networks of foreign countries more interested than the old bombers.
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