Pseudosatellites: Disrupting Air Power Impermanence
Commercial and research interests have begun developing balloon and air vehicle system designs for performing missions in the stratosphere that are
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Air Power Seminar: Understanding and Dealing With Space Debris
With 18,000+ trackable space objects now in orbit around the Earth, the threat of damage from high-speed orbital debris particle impacts has become
So You're Posted to CASG - Part IV
Stick with me now—we are nearly there! For those of you still with me, welcome back.
Intelligence Support for Air Operations
Air power is distinguished from sea and land power by its flexibility, speed, ubiquity, range and shock effect. These characteristics give air power a unique ability to concentrate force
and manoeuvre rapidly over long distances
The Essential Elements That Enable Our People
Introduction – Stefan Gabric (RNZAF)
Development of an ADF Integrated Air and Missile Capability to Combat Advanced Air and Missile Threats - 2019 Wrigley Prize Winner
Access to foreign bases has long been a critical enabler of the ADF, and ongoing access will be key to Australia’s future security. In the past, these Forward Operating Bases (FOB) were considered relatively secure, however continual improvements to the range and accuracy of missiles acquired by adversarial militaries have made these bases attractive targets, being the seemingly soft underbelly of western militaries.
In order to continue utilisation of FOBs, and to guarantee the safety of deployed forces, the ADF cannot remain idle to the threat of advanced air and missile attacks. As such Australia must look to develop its Air and Missile Defence (AMD) capabilities in order to remain secure in future operations.
The aim of the essay is to discuss a range of AMD design and operating concepts to inform the development of an ADF Integrated AMD (IAMD) capability.
This essay will be structured into four key areas: western nations’ historical and future reliance on FOBs to project power; the emerging threat of powerful state and non-state actors; Australia’s response to emerging air and missile threats; and, IAMD design and operational concepts in an Australian context.
Australia’s New Regional Context: Pacific Island Futures and Air Power Possibilities
In the Australian strategic consciousness the Pacific Islands loom very large.
Asymmetry and Air Power: Exquisite Investment or Extraneous Irrelevance
The RAAF has evolved as an Air Force based on the lessons of 20th century Air Power to become a ‘model’ mid-sized Air Force with an exquisite, mode
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Group Captain David Millar
Dragons Jaw - The Vietnam War Target the Paved the Way to a Modern Precision Air Weapon
Dragon’s Jaw is the Vietnamese nickname for the Thanh Hóa bridge.
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