Defence Update

Aew Big on Jul V Sdsc Air Power Conference

AGENDA The Jindalee and Airborne Early Warning debates intensified in the mid-year during the ‘Air Power in the Defence of Australia’ conference organised by the Australian National University’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre in Canberra.

One major point to emerge, contrary to some reports, is that the RAAF would be delighted if the Australian-developed Over The Horizon Radar experimental system, Jindalee, functioning from two sites near Alice Springs in Central Australia not only could be proven as operationally capable of pinpointing an undefined ‘intruder’ but could vector a fighter, otherwise unaided, to intercept it, using its own radar. Again, contrary to some views, the RAAF is not trying to disprove the capabilities of the Jindalee system to ‘see’ possible targets up to several thousand kilometres away, but simply wants to define what it can do with reasonable accuracy, or what it cannot be guaranteed to do.

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