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Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance
and Networking Capabilities


Wedgetail first flight (Boeing photo)
Wedgetail AEW&C (Boeing photo)

The RAAF is introducing its first AEW&C aircraft and networking capabilities. Both are necessary prerequisites for the application of modern air power. Unfortunately fleet numbers remain an issue with the Wedgetail AEW&C, and deep problems remain with the fundamental thinking underpinning the impact of networking. Important gaps remain in Australia's planned ISR 'constellation', especially in ground surveillance and ELINT/SIGINT/MASINT capabilities.

This website will post a selection of relevant articles, submissions and papers.

Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance Topics





Carlo Kopp
Air Power Australia
Jul 2007
Hard Kill Counter ISR  Programs
Carlo Kopp
Air Power Australia May 2009
Russian/Soviet/WarPac Ground Based ECM Systems
Carlo Kopp
Air Power Australia Jul 2007
Soviet Maritime Reconnaissance, Targeting, Strike and Electronic Combat Aircraft
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today
Jun 2004
Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance during Operation Iraqi Freedom [PDF]
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today Dec 2003
The Changing World of Maritime Patrol [PDF]
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today Feb 2005
MMA for Australia [PDF]
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today Sep 2006
UAVs - Can One Size Fit All? [PDF]
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today Nov 2006
Hard Kill Counter-ISR Capabilities Proliferate [PDF]
Carlo Kopp
RAAF APSC WP33
1995
Air Warfare Applications of Laser Remote Sensing [PDF]
Carlo Kopp
Air & Space Power Chronicles, Maxwell AFB March 1996
Laser Remote Sensing - a New Tool for Air Warfare, Mirror@APA
Carlo Kopp
ADFA/ADSC 'Control of the Air' Conference (Invited Paper) 1999
Sensors, Weapons and Systems for a 21st Century Counter Air Campaign [PDF]
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation
Sep 1983
Why Australia Needs an Airborne Early Warning Capability
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Mar/May 1989
AEW & AWACS  Parts 1 & 2
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Jun 1994
AEW&C - Phased Array Technology Parts 1 & 2
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Jun 1999
Wedgetail - Australia's 'Pocket AWACS' [PDF]
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Oct 2000
Wedgetail and the Region [PDF]
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation Jun 2004
Wedgetail - How Many is Enough? [PDF]
Carlo Kopp
Australian Aviation
Oct 2004
Defeating Cruise missiles [PDF]
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today Jun 2004
Wedgetail - Australia's Pocket AWACS [PDF]
Carlo Kopp
Publication
Jul 2005
Airborne Outpost 'Wedgetail' [PDF]
Carlo Kopp
ASPI SI #29
Sep 2006
Wedgetail: Australia's eagle-eyed sentinel
Carlo Kopp Air Power Australia Apr 2010 Wedgetail AEW&C Antennas
Carlo Kopp
Air Power Australia
Jul 2007
The PLA-AF's Airborne Early Warning & Control Programs
Carlo Kopp Defence Today Dec 2009 Identification underwater with towed array sonar
Carlo Kopp Defence Today Dec 2010 UAVs versus Manned LRMP Platforms
Carlo Kopp Defence Today Dec 2010 Evolving ASW Sensor Technology
Carlo Kopp Defence Today Oct 2010 Advanced ISR for Land Warfare
David Lynch, Jr and Carlo Kopp
Radar Handbook, 3rd Ed, McGraw-Hill
2008
Chapter 5 Multifunctional Radar Systems for Fighter Aircraft
Carlo Kopp Microwave Journal
Aug 2012
Evolution of AESA Radar Technology

Defence Today NCW 101 Series Articles [PDF]


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Carlo Kopp
Defence Today
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Part 1 - Information and Why it Matters
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today -
Part 2 - Digital Datalinks and Networks
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today -
Part 3 - JTIDS/MIDS
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today -
Part 4 - Ad Hoc Networking
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today -
Part 5 Optical Imaging Sensors
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today -
Part 6 Thermal Imaging Sensors
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today -
Part 7 Synthetic Aperture Radar
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today -
Part 8 Ground and Maritime Moving Target Indicator Radar
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today -
Part 10: Satellite Communications in NCW
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today -
Part 11: Pseudolites and Stratospheric Relays
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today -
Part 12: GPS in Networked Systems - Part 1
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today -
Part 13: GPS in Networked Systems - Part 2
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today -
Part 14: Fundamentals of Information Warfare
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today -
Part 15:Information Warfare vs ISR Systems
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today -
Part 16: Information Warfare vs Networks
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today -
Part 17: Data Mining and Knowledge
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today -
Parts 18 - 20 - Refer NCW101 Book

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NCW, Networking and Computing Technology Topics





Carlo Kopp Air Power Australia Mar 2012 Moore's Law and Telephoto Imaging
Carlo Kopp Air Power Australia Mar 2012
Digital Versus Wet Film Photographic Imaging
Carlo Kopp IO Journal Dec 2010 Exponential Growth Laws in Basic Technology and Capability Surprise
Michael Tyson and Carlo Kopp
Proceedings of MilCIS2008 Nov 2008
RF Propagation Environment Awareness for Smart Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Michael Tyson and Carlo Kopp Proceedings of MilCIS2007 Nov 2007
LGSP: A Lightweight GNSS Support Protocol for Military and Civil Applications [PDF]
Carlo Kopp 5th Australian IW&Sec Conference Nov 2004
Boyd, Metcalfe and Amdahl  -  Modelling Networked Warfighting Systems (Slides)
Carlo Kopp
ADFA/ADSC  'UAV Australia' Conference (Invited Paper) 2001
The UCAV Ascendancy: What are the Problem Issues?  (Slides)
Carlo Kopp Australian Aviation Mar 2003
Uninhabited Combat Aerial Vehicles
Carlo Kopp
Monash University
2001
Airborne Ad Hoc Networks
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today
Dec 2008
NCW in the maritime environment
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today May 2007
Radio frequency spectrum congestion – Emerging headache for NCW
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today May 2007 Knowledge Warfare
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today May 2007 GIS/ISR - Fusion on the battlefield
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today Jul 2005
Smart Tankers
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today Jan 2005
Understanding Network Centric Warfare
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today Sep 2004
NCW - In the Land Environment
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today Mar 2004
NCW - Buzzwords, Bytes and the Battlespace
Carlo Kopp
Defence Today Aug 2003
Network Centric Warfare
Carlo Kopp
Asia/Pacific Open Systems Review Mar 1997
Mobile Satellite Communications - Part I
Carlo Kopp
Asia/Pacific Open Systems Review Apr 1997
Mobile Satellite Communications - Part II
Carlo Kopp
Asia/Pacific Open Systems Review May 1997 An Introduction to Spread Spectrum Techniques
Carlo Kopp
Systems Journal
Jul 1998
Cryptography -  Part I
Carlo Kopp
Systems Journal Aug 1998
Cryptography - Part II
Carlo Kopp
Systems Journal Nov 1998
Computing - Military Style
Carlo Kopp
Systems Journal Jun 1999
Ad Hoc Networking
Carlo Kopp
Australian Communications
Sep 1999
Angels, HALOs and Atmospheric Networks
Carlo Kopp
Systems Journal Nov 1999
Flying High with VME [COTS]
Carlo Kopp
Comms World Feb 2000
Optical Amplification [Laser]
Carlo Kopp
Comms World May 2000
Microwave and Millimetric Wave Propagation
Carlo Kopp
Systems Journal Jun 2000
Vector Processing Futures
Carlo Kopp
Systems Journal Jul 2000
Moore's Law - is the end upon us?
Carlo Kopp
Comms World Jul 2000
Microwave Monoliths bring Moore's Law to RF
Carlo Kopp
Comms World Sep 2000
Ultra Wide Band Modulation
Carlo Kopp
Comms World Nov 2000
High Definition Television
Carlo Kopp
Systems Journal Feb 2001
Firewire
Carlo Kopp
Systems Journal Mar 2001
Wireless Ethernet - the Next Generation (COFDM)
Carlo Kopp
Comms World May 2001
Shedding Light on IR/Optical Datalinks


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Australia is very likely to join the US Navy MMA program which is intended to replace the P-3 series of LRMP aircraft. The MMA program presents a good opportunity for Australia to field a genuine SIGINT/ELINT capability, and a future SAR/GMTI ground surveillance and targeting capability (Boeing artwork).


Australia has no current plans to acquire a SAR/GMTI ground surveillance and targeting asset, examples being the E-8C JSTARS or its smaller European equivalent (U.S. Air Force).


A capability currently underdeveloped in Australia is SIGINT/ELINT/MASINT. The most capable system in this category currently operational is the US Air Force RC-135V/W Rivet Joint, equipped with the highly capable Raytheon 55000 Electronic Support Measures (ESM) and 85000 signals intelligence (SIGINT) receiver systems. The Rivet Joint has proven exceptionally useful for both strategic reconnaissance roles, and in support of air campaigns in progress (U.S. Air Force).


Networking of combat assets in an increasingly common practice in modern air forces. Aerial refuelling tankers are especially attractive as nodes and relays in networks as they are ubiquitous in areas of operations, and persist on station for many hours. The U.S. Air Force is introducing its 'SMART tanker' with ROBE equipment using the KC-135R (U.S. Air Force).


High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) UAVs offer an important high footprint persistent platform for ISR and networking payloads. With applications as EO sensor platforms, SAR/GTMI/MMTI/AMTI radar platforms, SIGINT/ELINT platforms and network/communications relays, HALE UAVs will occupy an increasing fraction of ISR roles historically performed by manned platforms. Depicted is a Northrop Grumman RQ-4A Global Hawk in recently adopted low visibility camouflage (Northrop Grumman).


The AP-3C is Australia's LRMP system. It is an important component of the ISR 'constellation' providing conventional LRMP capabilities and an electronic reconnaissance capability. It is likely to be replaced by the P-8A MMA (Paul Sadler photo).






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