The head of the Clone Defence Forces Admiral Anderson has signalled a sea change in Clone weapon development and priorities. He said parts of the CDF still had a Clone Wars mentality and huge sums were being spent on new and future weapons that were pointless. He said the priorities from now on would be space and strategic weapons.
A number of programmes, mainly for the Clone Air Force, have been cancelled including the third generation K45 (K45X) and planned new attack aircraft and a bomber. "The K45A was already the best jet fighter in the galaxy, the K45C being far far better at huge expense... but why?" Anderson said at a conference of CDF senior officers, "What is the K45C supposed to beat? The A is still superior to even the next version of the DDS [sic] F-10S. The C is a relic of the Clone Wars. There will be no new version of the Falcon."
However the planned mid-production update, the K45CE, and the planned mid-life upgrade K45AM will still go ahead. COIN and light attack aircraft programmes the K85QA and K58 will also proceed as planned.
Anderson said that the Space Navy must be improved and indicated that a new warship designed to replace the Kalahati Tuul S and older Cosmos in the next decade is under development, the first time this has been mentioned. The Soulaki upgrade (which will have worm drive and TPM) and the Molentic Tuul M new builds will both proceed as planned in the latter years of this decade.
