Living and Thriving Under Ambiguity
Luke Houghton and Jennifer Loy
Griffith University
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.
Like all aspects of the ADF, the Air Force has the need to contribute and enable Australia’s larger national power strategies.
What are the national challenges and opportunities for Australia with respect to future energy; especially for powered flight?
Turning the Tap Off - Stopping the Flow of Pointless Jobs in the RAAF
Daniel Cook
Australian Defence Force
application of aerospace power has seen significant developments since 1994, most notably through American-led operations in Central Europe and Afghanistan, and continuing technological advances with weapons, uninhabited vehicles, space-based systems and information systems.
China's current and evolving grey zone activities in the South China Sea, the East China Sea and Ladakh region
The Air and Space Power Centre will launch "Air/Space" in early 2021, an open-source blog that will be hosted on our website.
Multiple challenges are coming fast and simultaneously creating a future operational environment of unprecedented complexity. For example:
