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RAF BAe Nimrod AEW.3. The AEW Nimrod was an innovative British design which ran into development problems and in 1986 was cancelled in favour of the larger Boeing E-3/Westinghouse APY-2 AWACS system. Many of Nimrod's troubles stemmed from the choice of an airframe too small to support the space, cooling and power requirements of a high performance AEW system resulting in major shortcomings in range! endurance. This was compounded by problems in antenna/receiver/ radome performance and data processing capability.
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Aew & Awacs
Part II – The Rustrrlirn Perspective
Australia is in the somewhat unique position of having to defend a very large, but sparsely populated land mass against seaborne and aerial intruders.
These may range from high level threats such as AV-MF and SSA Bears and Backfires, staging from Cam Ranh Bay and flying peacetime surveillance/recce and wartime strike missions, through Indonesia’s F-16 and A-4 tactical jets which could be expected to play a major role in any serious regional dispute, down to general aviation aircraft used to smuggle drugs into the country or other items (eg; wildlife) out of the country. While these winged intruders constitute a potential and real problem, one cannot overlook the environmental threat posed by Indonesian fishing vessels often caught plundering the rich fishing areas of the North and North-West, this activity is pursued with obvious contempt for Australian quarantine procedures.
Clearly the problems of illegal fishing, immigration and drug running are the most pressing at this instant in time, the potential wartime threat of air strikes and supporting recce however, must not be dismissed, given the rapid economic growth in the North and North-West.
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