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The 'poor man's air force' is a term for employing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hobbyist drones or uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) to strategic level military effect, and that effect cannot be understated (Waters, 2018; Nadeau, 2022; Shift, 2023). The ability for terror organisations to coordinate multiple layers of effects, including using COTS drones, to destroy Command and Control (C2) nodes in Israel causes alarm. Couple this with the use of COTS drones for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, strike and battle-damage assessment missions, and the threat posed by what are essentially toys is alarmingly real.
Welcome to the live recordings of the Chief of Air Force Symposium 2023:
In January 2020, I was privileged to fill the role of Senior ADF Officer (SADFO) and Air Base Executive Officer (ABXO) of the RAAF Base Wagga, as the national bushfire emergency unfolded across the NSW southwest slopes.
For almost a decade now, IBM Research has been supporting risk management using an AI based and data driven, support tool: the Scenario Planning Ad
Resilience and Innovation in Air Power and Space Power releasing the Air Power Manual. #ASPCon22 #AirPower #SpacePower
Like any modern military, the Australian Defence Force is reliant upon space capabilities to conduct global, connected and precise military operati
Train like we fight, fight like we train.
Ensuring that logistics support is organised as a single, coherent system that removes duplication and assists in the provision of a consistent, comprehensive and complementary flow of logistics support through each of the levels of war to enable the effective application of air power.
