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Super Hornets test air combat power in Guam
By: John Armstrong
Australian F/A-18F Super Hornet aircrews were tested to the limit during the recent Exercise Cope North, which brought together fighter and support assets from three countries for air defence operations under realistic combat conditions.
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Libya: Way of war for next decade?
By: Peter Layton
Military forces of many Western countries are being scaled back because of financial and economic concerns, the implication being that countries with smaller armed forces will now have less impact on international events, but the relationship between force size and effectiveness is not quite as simple as that.
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Advancing counter-stealth radar technologies
By: Dr Carlo Kopp
A recent announcement in Moscow that 100 large NNIIRT/Almaz-Antey 55Zh6M Nebo M radar systems would be procured for Russia's air defence forces received no attention in the Western mass media, yet this was a significant development by any measure.
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Airbase hardening in the Western Pacific
By: Dr Carlo Kopp
The Information Age can be a blessing and a curse, clearly evident in the domain of strategy. Profound changes are underway, as the globalised market absorbs a generation of new technologies, including Precision Guided Munitions and a plethora of digital Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance systems.
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Russia's Syrian power play in the Mediterranean
By: David Eshel
The turmoil across the Middle East could lead to the entire eastern Mediterranean basin being in danger of falling under Islamist control, which is causing considerable alarm in Moscow.
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Strategic potential of the Cocos and Christmas Island
By: Dr Carlo Kopp
The ongoing drift in the global balance of economic and military power toward Asia has brought important policy changes in the United States, with the recent Defense Strategic Guidance document putting the Asia-Pacific region and the associated air-sea battle strategy concept at the top of its long term strategic agenda.
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'Wedgetail' in operational service - two years on
By: Nigel Pittaway
April this year marks two years since the first two Boeing 737-based Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning & Control aircraft entered service with the Australian Air Force - albeit without achieving full specified performance criteria.
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United States refocuses Air Sea Battle Concept
By: Dr Carlo Kopp
The United States is currently in the midst of the largest single strategic reorientation, force structure change, and defence budget constriction observed since the end of the Cold War. Much of this change is effectively an abandoning of the dysfunctional Gates Doctrine.
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Hawk Lead-In Fighter - Upgrade or replace?
By: Nigel Pittaway
Project AIR 5438, the RAAF's Lead In Fighter Capability Assurance Program, aims to maintain the Hawk Mk.127's relevance in the fast-jet training scheme and its suitability to deliver candidates into the F-35A Lightning training pipeline when it enters service from 2017.
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Air superiority 'Game Changers': T-50 PAK-FA and J-20
By: Dr Carlo Kopp
The emergence of non-United States stealth fighters is a pivotal strategic development, but one which has also been long expected, given that the first US stealth fighter, the F-117A Nighthawk entered production thirty years ago.
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Israel's integrated air defence concept
By: David Eshel
If there's one nation constantly under the threat of air attack, it is Israel, so it's not surprising that in many areas, such as Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance and Integrated Air Defence, Israel is regarded as the yardstick for air defence measures.
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US Marines refocus on Asia Pacific region
By: Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe
The US Government's landmark decision late last year to strategically refocus in the Asia-Pacific region places Australia in the centre of that area of operations, with an escalation of involvement of US forces in northern Australia.
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