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APA NOTAMS ISSN 1836-7135
Discussion, Commentary and Analysis
Analytical Perspectives on Contemporary Defence Topics

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“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”
Eric Arthur Blair, writing as George Orwell,
British writer and satirist , 1903 - 1950
The APA NOTAM series comprises short topical discussion articles, intended to provide a professional audience, and the public, with an expert analytical perspective on contemporary defence topics. APA NOTAMs cover the full gamut of defence policy, strategy, technology, operations and tactics. NOTAM series contributors include some of Australia's foremost authorities in their topical areas.

Air Power Australia NOTAMS
NOTAM Number
Date Published
 Authors
 NOTAM Title
APA NOTAM #74
04/07/2011		 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd)
and Peter Goon		 The Chengdu J-20: Peace in Our Time?
APA NOTAM #73
23/02/2011		 Dr Carlo Kopp Defence Materiel Organisation Probability of Failure: Pfail = 1.0
APA NOTAM #72
16/02/2011		 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) F-35, F-22 and B-2 vs China's Underground Airbases
Everything Old is New Again
APA NOTAM #71
24/01/2011		 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) J-20 Stealth Fighter: China's First Strike Weapon
APA NOTAM #70
09/01/2011		 Dr Carlo Kopp The Strategic Impact of China's J-XX [J-20] Stealth Fighter
APA NOTAM #69
31/12/2010		 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) What China's New Stealth Fighter Means for the F-35 JSF and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
APA NOTAM #68
13/12/2010		 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) Fast Forward ‘Fast Transients’: John Boyd, the F-22 and F-35 in 2016
APA NOTAM #67
19/10/2010		 Dr Carlo Kopp F-35 JSF: Can It Meet Canada's Needs?
APA NOTAM #66
04/10/2010		 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) F-111: Deadly Strike-Fighter to be Trashed
APA NOTAM #65
17/07/2010		 Peter Goon Is the JSF Affordable? An Australian’s Perspective
APA NOTAM #64
17/07/2010		 Dr Carlo Kopp Reassessing Iran's Air Defences
APA NOTAM #63
09/07/2010		 Peter Goon F-35 JSF Program: When is “Affordability” Not?
APA NOTAM #62
05/07/2010		 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) How? The Deadly Question for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
APA NOTAM #61
30/03/2010		 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd)
and Peter Goon		 Why the F-22 and the PAK-FA have the “Right Stuff” and why the F/A-18 and the F-35 do not
APA NOTAM #60
24/03/2010		 AVM B J Graf, RAAF (Retd) F-35 JSF: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Do No Good
APA NOTAM #59
23/02/2010		 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd)
and Peter Goon		 PAK-FA, F-35, F-22 and “Capability Surprise”
APA NOTAM #58
15/02/2010		 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) Sukhoi PAK-FA - Russia's Strategic ‘Game Changer’
APA NOTAM #57
13/02/2010		 Peter Goon F-35A JSF: Not Even Second Place...
APA NOTAM #56
10/02/2010		 Peter Goon
and Dr Carlo Kopp
 A Perspective on the Quadrennial Defense Review
APA NOTAM #55
14/01/2010		 Dr Martin Andrew, RAAF (Retd)
 China’s Anti-Ballistic Missile Test: Much Ado About Nothing
APA NOTAM #54
06/12/2009		 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) FD-2000 / HQ-9 SAM - China's Strategic ‘Game Changer’
APA NOTAM #53
22/11/2009		 Peter Goon F-35 JSF: The Gamekeeper vs the Poachers
     .... JET Mk.II Juxtaposition and the 'Normalisation of Deviance'
APA NOTAM #52 19/11/2009 Dr Carlo Kopp F-35 JSF Program:  Assessment of Top Level Programmatic Risks
APA NOTAM #51 13/11/2009 Kris Kafka
 F-35 JSF and the SecDef's Nightmare
APA NOTAM #50 11/11/2009 Peter Goon F-35 JSF: Becoming Your Own Peer Threat . . .While Killing Off the “Best Bang for the Buck” Option - the F-22A Raptor
APA NOTAM #49 08/11/2009 Peter Goon Mr Secretary - Why Does the Pentagon Say the JSF is a 5th Generation Fighter . .  Really?
APA NOTAM #48 14/09/2009 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) F-35 Joint Strike Fighter vs Russia's New Airborne Counter-Stealth Radars
APA NOTAM #47 17/08/2009 Dr Carlo Kopp
and Peter Goon		 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program:
Collapse is a “When” Question, not an “If” Question
APA NOTAM #46 06/07/2009 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) F-22 and the Survival of American Air Power
APA NOTAM #45 17/04/2009 Peter Goon JSF, F-22, C-17 and the Hon Robert Gates: “Next war-itis” – Yet another dose of ‘alternate reality’
APA NOTAM #44 14/04/2009 Dr Carlo Kopp, MIEEE, SMAIAA, PEng F-22 Termination: America’s Self-Induced Strategic Death Spiral
APA NOTAM #43 11/04/2009 Peter Goon F-22A Raptor: More Bang for the Buck than F-35 JSF….with Far Less Risk
APA NOTAM #42 08/04/2009 LTCOL Walt Bjorneby, USAF (Retd)
 F-22: 187 Raptors is NOT Enough!
APA NOTAM #41 06/04/2009 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) JSF F-35 Program: How Many Miles Does an F-35A Go On a Tankful of Gas?
APA NOTAM #40 31/03/2009 Peter Goon Accountability  vs  Indifference to What is Real
APA NOTAM #39 30/03/2009 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) Air Combat: Russia’s PAK-FA versus the F-22 and F-35
APA NOTAM #38 29/03/2009 Peter Goon JSF: Through the Prism of Risk Management
APA NOTAM #37 04/03/2009 Dr Carlo Kopp When America’s Stealth Monopoly Ends, What's Next?
APA NOTAM #36 03/03/2009 Dr Carlo Kopp F-35 JSF: Cold War Anachronism Without a Mission
APA NOTAM #35 02/03/2009 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) JSF: WGCDR Mills Responds to Maj Gen Davis
APA NOTAM #34 27/02/2009 Dr Carlo Kopp JSF: Dr Kopp Responds to Maj Gen Davis
APA NOTAM #33 24/02/2009 Dr Carlo Kopp United Kingdom: F-35 or F-22?
APA NOTAM #32 23/02/2009 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd)
and Peter Goon
APA NOTAM #31 19/02/2009 Peter Goon JSF Alternate Realities: … and from whence they come
APA NOTAM #30 17/02/2009 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) Will the US Air Force be Annihilated in the Next War?
APA NOTAM #29 16/02/2009 Dr Carlo Kopp Numbers Matter: Strategic Consequences of F-22 Termination
APA NOTAM #28 09/02/2009 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) F-22A Raptors for the Marine Corps
APA NOTAM #27 27/01/2009 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) Breaking the Kill Chain
APA NOTAM #26 18/01/2009 Dr Carlo Kopp Hybridisation of Surface to Air Missile Systems
APA NOTAM #25 07/01/2009 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) Coffin Corners for the Joint Strike Fighter
APA NOTAM #24 03/08/2008 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) D.I.E.D. in Air Combat
APA NOTAM #23 29/05/2008 Dr Carlo Kopp RUSI Address: Australia’s Regional Challenge – The Proliferation of Russian High Technology Weapons in the Region
APA NOTAM #22 16/05/2008 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) The Air Force Association  Threats to Air Supremacy  Presentation
APA NOTAM #21 23/04/2008 Col Grigoriy Medved (Retd) Grisha's Stealth «Pidgeon Shoot»
APA NOTAM #20 20/04/2008 Col Grigoriy Medved (Retd) Grisha's Missile «Shoot-Off»
APA NOTAM #19 13/04/2008 Col Grigoriy Medved (Retd) Grisha's Radar «Fry-Off»
APA NOTAM #18 13/03/2008 Dr Carlo Kopp
and Peter Goon 		Ministerial Submission:  Strategic Needs and Force Structure Analysis:  The Thinking Behind the F-22A and Evolved F-111 Force Mix Option
APA NOTAM #17 15/02/2008 Peter Goon Why F-22A Raptor instead of F-35A Joint Strike Fighter?
APA NOTAM #16 06/01/2008 Peter Goon Revisiting “A Farewell to Arms - Revisited”
APA NOTAM #15 06/01/2008 AIRCDRE E. J. Bushell AM, RAAF (Retd) The Changing Tide in Australia's Air Power
APA NOTAM #14 21/11/2007 Dr Carlo Kopp Situating the Appreciation – The Perils of Force Structure Planning by Edict
APA NOTAM #13 20/11/2007 WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd) AUSTRALIA'S FUTURE: Air Dominance Capability
APA NOTAM #12 12/11/2007 AIRCDRE E. J. Bushell AM, RAAF (Retd) THERE’S THAT ‘M’ WORD AGAIN! With Particular Reference to the RAAF
APA NOTAM #11 05/11/2007 Dr Carlo Kopp,
Peter Goon, et al 		Analysing “The ADF Air Combat Capability- On the Record”
APA NOTAM #10 03/09/2007 Col Grigoriy Medved (Retd) Sukhoi's Lightning Strikes the F-35 JSF
APA NOTAM #9 19/08/2007 Dr Carlo Kopp Destroying Australia's Defence Industrial Base
APA NOTAM #8 06/08/2007 Col Grigoriy Medved (Retd) Pesticide for Super Hornets
APA NOTAM #7 30/07/2007 AIRCDRE E. J. Bushell AM, RAAF (Retd) The Critical Gap Between Government Policy and Department of Defence Implementation Planning
APA NOTAM #6 30/07/2007 WGCDR Peter Larard, RAAF (Retd) The Nation's Air Strategy - a 2007 View
APA NOTAM #5 23/07/2007 AIRCDRE E. J. Bushell AM, RAAF (Retd) The Proust Defence Management Review - Symptoms or Solutions?
APA NOTAM #4 16/07/2007 Peter Goon Open Sourced, Closed Minds
APA NOTAM #3 10/07/2007 AIRCDRE E. J. Bushell AM, RAAF (Retd) Initial Problems in Defence Give Lasting Problems for Australia
APA NOTAM #2 04/07/2007 Col Grigoriy Medved (Retd) How to Destroy the Australian  Defence Force
APA NOTAM #1 16/04/2007 Peter Goon JSF: The Biggest Loser

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Air Power Australia NOTAMS Online Journal ISSN 1836-7135
APA NOTAMS Editor: Carlo Kopp  Contact: +437-478-224 (Australia)
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Publisher: Air Power Australia - Australia's Independent Defence Think Tank
Previous and Current APA NOTAM Contributors:
AIRCDRE E. J. Bushell AM, RAAF (Retd)
WGCDR Peter Larard, RAAF (Retd)
WGCDR Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd)
LTCOL Walt Bjorneby, USAF (Retd)
Col Grigoriy Medved (Retd)
GPCAPT Ron G Green (Retd)
Peter Goon
Dr Carlo Kopp, SMIEEE, SMAIAA, PEng




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