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.
Underpinning modernisation efforts in the Australian and US Air Forces is the shared recognition that success in the future battle space depends fo
Air and Space Power Conference 2024 Transcript: Operating in Northern Australia by Mr Cameron Smith.Live Transcripts from the Air and Space Power C
Chief of Air Force and the other Australian Defence Force Service Chiefs launch the Air Power Manual 7th ed and Space Power eManual
Air and space power are critical to the conduct of Australian air operations in ADF joint warfighting.
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.
Air and Space Power Conference 2024 Transcript: Resilience through Networking and Northern Bases by Air Vice-Marshal Glen Braz, AM, CSC, DSMLive Tr
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.
Multiple challenges are coming fast and simultaneously creating a future operational environment of unprecedented complexity. For example:
