Pathfinder Collection Volume 3
Since June 2004 the Air Power Development Centre has published the fortnightly Pathfinder bulletins, ranging across air power and historical subjec
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How Can We Prepare for Something We Can’t Predict?
Introduction (Siovahn Daly)
Swarms of Trouble: The Hidden Threat of Consumer UAVs
Technology usually follows a certain progression – first the device gets more features before it reduces in size. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) fill this description perfectly, and we have yet to come up with an adequate defence for them.
Royal Australian Air Force and 3D Printing: Co-Creating for the Future Workforce
Imagining potential futures where we create advantage through collaboration.
Wrigley Prize and WOFF-AF Creative Writing Award Winners Announced!
Since 2010, the Wrigley Prize writing competition has called for written submissions that demonstrate an understanding of air power theory, and mor
Australia's Antarctica National Air Power Futures
Antarctica is changing.
Sir James Rowland Air Power Seminar
Proposals for presentations of 3,000 words (max.) are invited from established scholars, early career academic researchers, industry leaders, polic
Is the Australian Society Ready for Mass information Warfare?
Is the Australian Society Ready for Mass information Warfare?
Elliot Parker
Australian Defence Force
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.
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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