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03/07/2009
Add new page detailing S-200VE Vega / SA-5 Gammon Missile Site Design; thanks to Martin Korec, Matej Kopecky, and Pavel Kisling for the generous provision of photographic materials covering the Dobříš and Rapotice SA-5B sites; updated PLA Mechanised Infantry Division Air Defence Systems / PLA Point Defence Systems
30/06/2009
Add further material to SNR-75 / Fan Song analysis.
28/06/2009
Add further material to 5N62 Square Pair analysis; Miscellaneous fixes.
27/06/2009
Add new S-200VE Vega / SA-5 Gammon page with a considerable amount of new material; declutter SA-5 entries on existing pages; add new SA-2 and SA-3  SAM cutaways to the Engagement and Fire Control Radar page.
22/06/2009
Add Iraqi 3M9/R-60 Hybrid Heatseeking Gainful Round to legacy SAM upgrades; mirror Dr Ben Lambeth's APJ analysis “Kosovo and the Continuing SEAD Challenge”.
21/06/2009
Updated ground based counter ISR ECM systems  with R-330 family of VHF comjammer systems. Includes images generously provided by Miroslav Gyűrösi; completed index page modifications.
20/06/2009
Index pages are being currently subjected to a update and layout change to structured tabular formatting. The intent is to simplify access. Some additional links have been added where appropriate.
17/06/2009
Updated Legacy Air Defence System Upgrades with new material; declutter Legacy TEL/TL and Engagement and Fire Control Radar pages; updated SAM System Index; revise toolbars and home page shortcuts due to high visitation rates to SAM system index page and low visitation rates to Abstracts page - contacts to auxiliary toolbar, new main toolbar button for SAMS/IADS; replace home page SAM system index shortcut button with Legacy Air Defence Systems Upgrades shortcut button, migrate Abstracts links to Navigation page.
14/06/2009
Add new APA analysis Revisiting the Lessons of Operation Allied Force  by Dr Martin Andrew.; add new page covering Legacy Air Defence System Upgrades - it is intended that existing upgrade material on other pages will be migrated to this page over time.
12/06/2009
Updated ground based counter ISR ECM systems and Air Defence System Defensive Aids pages with further imagery generously provided by Miroslav Gyűrösi; updated 76N6 Clam Shell page with performance specifications; updated 9A84 S-300V TEL/TL image; updated IADS command posts with new materials; add new Valeria E to Emitter Locating System page.
10/06/2009
Add new page covering Air Defence System Defensive Aids, covering decoys, MAWS and other countermeasures for radars and SAM systems.
08/06/2009
Add new page covering Briefings and Submissions; replace upper toolbar FAQ shortcut button with Briefs/Submissions button, FAQ to Contacts page; add new SPN-40 jammer images and SA-10 5P85SE/DE TEL images generously provided by Miroslav Gyűrösi.
07/06/2009
Add new page covering Proliferation of Advanced Surface to Air Missiles.
31/05/2009 Add new page covering NKMZ 40V6M/40V6MD Universal Mobile Mast; declutter 76N6 Clam Shell page.
30/05/2009 Updated Nebo SVU with further antenna imagery generously provided by Miroslav Gyűrösi.
29/05/2009
Updated PLA point defence weapons page with new material including the Type 90 SPAAG, Yitian SAM system and FN-16 MANPADS; Add new S-400 Triumf / SA-21 page using existing materials from existing S-300PMU page with updates, depopulate S-400 entry in S-300PMU page. This has been done due to the ongoing and increasing availability of new S-400 materials; further updates to Russian ground based counter ISR ECM systems.
28/05/2009 Updated Nebo SVU with further imagery generously provided by Miroslav Gyűrösi.
27/05/2009
Updated Nebo SVU with additional imagery generously provided by Miroslav Gyűrösi; add new S-300PMU2 Favorit / SA-20 Gargoyle page with imagery generously provided by Said Aminov of Vestnik PVO; add new page (still under construction) with Russian ground based counter ISR ECM systems.
26/05/2009
Updated Nebo SVU, Square Pair with additional material.
21/05/2009 Updated Gamma S1 with new high mobility variant.
19/05/2009
Add new wheeled Buk M2E / SA-17 Grizzly imagery to Engagement and Fire Control Radars page, and Search and Acquisition Radars page.
18/05/2009
Updated Nebo SVU analysis with parametric comparison against the Nebo M  RLM-M VHF band radar.
17/05/2009
Updated counter VLO radar page with the new Nebo M Mobile Multiband Radar System; this is a significant development both in its capability, and in the associated design of a self-propelled variant of the VHF-band Nebo SVU AESA.
08/05/2009
Add new APA analysis paper The Decay Of Critical Military Thinking And Writing; With Particular Reference To The RAAF by Air Commodore Ted Bushell (Retd).
17/04/2009 Add new NOTAM JSF, F-22, C-17 and the Hon Robert Gates: “Next war-itis” – Yet another dose of ‘alternate reality’
14/04/2009
12/04/2009
Updated SA-2 and SA-3 TEL entries; Fan Song and Low Blow entries.
11/04/2009
08/04/2009 Add new NOTAM F-22: 187 Raptors is NOT Enough!
06/04/2009
04/04/2009
Updated PLA Area Defence Missile Systems; updated PLA Mechanised Infantry Division Air Defence Systems / PLA Point Defence Systems; PLA Air Defence Radar pages; add shortcut buttons to home page.
02/04/2009 Updated PLA Area Defence Missile Systems; PLA Mechanised Infantry Division Air Defence Systems / PLA Point Defence Systems;
01/04/2009 Due to ongoing problems with quality of service, and server platform performance, APA rehosted the website today to a more powerful server. Unfortunately the short notice involved resulted in an unavoidable outage of several hours.
01/04/2009
Add new page covering PLA Area Defence Missile Systems; updated PLA Mechanised Infantry Division Air Defence Systems / PLA Point Defence Systems  page
31/03/2009
Add new NOTAM Accountability  vs  Indifference to What is Real
30/03/2009
Add new NOTAM Air Combat: Russia’s PAK-FA versus the F-22 and F-35
29/03/2009 Add new NOTAM JSF: Through the Prism of Risk Management
28/03/2009
Updated WZ551D, LY-60 and HQ-61 on PLA Mechanised Infantry Division Air Defence Systems / PLA Point Defence Systems  page; updated HT-233.
25/03/2009 Updated S-300V/VM TELAR/TEL page.
24/03/2009 Updated S-300V/VM page with additional material on S-300VM and S-300VMK. NB significant aperture increases to the 9S32M/ME engagement radar.
22/03/2009 Add David K. Barton's May, 1994, Microwave Journal analysis Design of the S-300P and S-300V Surface-to-Air Missile Systems with additional imagery; Updated S-300PMU page with additional imagery generously provided by Miroslav Gyűrösi.
21/03/2009
Updated S-300V/VM page with additional imagery generously provided by Miroslav Gyűrösi.
17/03/2009 Add new page covering PLA Mechanised Infantry Division Air Defence Systems / PLA Point Defence Systems; NB significant counter PGM capability in LD-2000 SPAAGM.
08/03/2009
Add Defence Today (2008) articles: Future expeditionary warfare challenges; Killing the Vampire / Soviet ASCM development; Milestones: Cruise missiles post World War II; Milestones: Soviet cruise missiles post World War II; High energy laser air defence weapons; NCW in the maritime environment; Russian VHF counter stealth radars proliferate.
07/03/2009
Formatting changes to APA Analyses page.
05/03/2009
Rebuild NOTAMs page to ease user access.
04/03/2009 Add new NOTAM When America’s Stealth Monopoly Ends, What's Next?
03/03/2009 Add new NOTAM F-35 JSF: Cold War Anachronism Without a Mission
02/03/2009
Add new NOTAM JSF: WGCDR Mills Responds to Maj Gen Davis
27/02/2009
Add new NOTAM JSF: Dr Kopp Responds to Maj Gen Davis
24/02/2009 Add new NOTAM United Kingdom: F-35 or F-22?
23/02/2009 Add new NOTAM Navalising the F-22 Raptor - Restoring America's Maritime Air Dominance
20/02/2009 Add Bill Sweetman's AeroIndia 2009 briefing slides: Fighters In The Long War (PDF 12.6 MB); special thanks to Bill for generously providing this material for posting.
19/02/2009 Add new NOTAM JSF Alternate Realities: … and from whence they come
17/02/2009
Add new NOTAM Will the US Air Force be Annihilated in the Next War?
16/02/2009 Add new NOTAM Numbers Matter: Strategic Consequences of F-22 Termination
09/02/2009 Add new NOTAM F-22A Raptors for the Marine Corps.
07/02/2009
Expand F-22 index page with section on "Why America Needs More F-22 Raptors". Add hotlinks.
03/02/2009
Add new APA Analysis Surviving the Modern Integrated Air Defence System.
01/02/2009
Updated SA-8 Gecko with new material generously provided by Miroslav Gyűrösi.
30/01/2009
Air Power Australia is pleased to announce the release of its first book, entitled NCW101: An Introduction to Network Centric Warfare. Media release.
27/01/2009
Add new NOTAM Breaking the Kill Chain.
18/01/2009
Add new NOTAM SAM system hybridisation.
17/01/2009 Updated Surface to Air Missile System Radar IndexCounter Stealth radar pages.
16/01/2009
Updated PLA Air Defence Radar, Counter Stealth radar pages.
14/01/2009
Add new reference on PLA Air Defence Radars, excerpted from Chinese Radars by J.C Wise.
09/01/2009
Updated Gamma DE specs to reflect 2007 VNIIRT data (stow/deploy from 90 minutes to 5 minutes in SP config). Updated/expanded Surface to Air Missile System TEL / Radar Mobility page.
08/01/2009
Updated/expanded Surface to Air Missile System TEL / Radar Mobility page; updated Engagement and Fire Control Radars page.
07/01/2009
Add new APA analysis Assessing Joint Strike Fighter Defence Penetration Capabilities; add related NOTAM Coffin Corners for the Joint Strike Fighter; and associated Media Release.
06/01/2009
Updated/expanded SAM/AAA Multimedia page.
05/01/2009
Updated/expanded Counter Stealth radar page; S/X-Band Acquisition Radar page; Engagement and Fire Control Radars page.
04/01/2009 Miscellaneous updates and fixes to SAM pages; upgraded Surface to Air Missile System Radar Index and swap title page button.
03/01/2009

Add new Engagement and Fire Control Radars (S-band, X-Band, Ku/K/Ka-band) to Regional Capabilities page; updated S/X-Band Acquisition Radar page.
02/01/2009
Add new S/X-Band Acquisition Radar page to Regional Capabilities page.
31/12/2008
Add Surface to Air Missile System Radar Index to Regional Capabilities page.
30/12/2008
Finalise updates to Counter Stealth radar page; updated S-300P/S-400 analysis  with more recent images, and technical material on missiles and radar.
28/12/2008
Updated Counter Stealth radar page with additional radars, additional images, additional specs and range vs RCS performance charts. Further updates to come.
27/12/2008
Add new APA Analysis entitled Rebuilding the Warrior Ethos by AIRCDRE E. J. Bushell AM, RAAF (Retd).
12/12/2008
Add new analysis - The Impact of Russian High Technology Weapons: Transforming the Strategic Balance in Asia.
02/12/2008
Updated Emitter Locating Systems analysis, Legacy SAM, and Point Defence SAM support vehicles with additional systems and high quality imagery by Miroslav Gyűrösi.
10/11/2008
Add new analysis - Assessing Joint Strike Fighter Air Combat Capabilities
12/10/2008
Updated Fullback analysis with new cockpit and EO targeting system details.
01/10/2008
Added AIR DOMINANCE: THE ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENT AFA presentation by Dr R.P. Hallion [posted with permission from the author]
30/08/2008
Added Shenyang J-11B Flanker B page.
22/09/2008
Updated S-400 analysis  with more recent technical material on missiles and radar.
01/09/2008
Layout modifications to multiple pages.
30/08/2008
Add Defence Today articles: Milestones: Early Air Defence Radar; Industry Capabilities in Software and Systems Integration; Technology Trends in Simulation; China's Air Defence Missile Systems; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Techniques
23/08/2008
Home page shortcut buttons added for strategy papers and submissions; fixes to National Military Strategy and the Defence 2008 White Paper; miscellaneous fixes.
19/08/2008 Add new missile range animated chart.
18/08/2008
Add new APA Analysis covering National Military Strategy and the Defence 2008 White Paper.
04/08/2008
Updated JDAM analysis and produce HTML version of Part 2.
03/08/2008 Add new NOTAM D.I.E.D. in Air Combat; Add more home page shortcut buttons and updated related guided munitions pages.
27/07/2008
Add new analysis on Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence Systems.
22/07/2008
Upgraded navigation toolbar tooltips to improve access; sundry fixes to multiple pages.
19/07/2008 Add new analysis Phazotron Zhuk AE/ASE: Assessing Russia's First AESA.
16/07/2008
Topic index page formatting fixes and text backgrounds added.
15/07/2008 Implement 'high density' shortcut button layout; replace hotlinks on F-22, Flanker, JSF, F/A-18 and Region index pages with shortcut buttons.
14/07/2008 Add more home page shortcut buttons; updated navigation page.
13/07/2008 Further home page modifications for rapid access; updated parliamentary submissions page; updated navigation page.
12/07/2008 Split notices and updates page into current (here) and archived notices pages; add research page toolbar button; other sundry fixes; add new APA Analysis - The RAAF's Professional Mastery Problem: Symptoms, Causes and Measures to Reskill the RAAF by AIRCDRE E. J. Bushell AM, RAAF (Retd) and Dr Carlo Kopp; upgrade banner artwork for HTML pages.
11/07/2008 Add further home page hotlink buttons; revised all header toolbar buttons; revised auxiliary navigation toolbar; split media page into media / news and NOTAM / media release pages. All modifications intended to improve navigation especially for new visitors, and to declutter the legacy media page.
07/07/2008 APA and  associates have made three detailed submissions to the Canberra Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade of Federal Parliament, Review of the Defence Annual Report 2006-2007.
These submissions are now posted at: http://www.aph.gov.au/..../subs.htm; Evidentiary items for Submission #3 remain available at NOTAM #18.
06/07/2008 Add new APA analysis on Eurofighter Typhoon by Dr Kenneth Freeman MBA, MPA.
01/07/2008
Updated Russian and PLA Legacy Air Defence System Vehicles.
30/06/2008
Updated Ranets E HPM DEW ie "RF Cannon".
29/06/2008
Updated S-300V analysis; add new pages covering Air Defence System Support Vehicles.
28/06/2008
Add nuclear E-bomb primer; add new navigation buttons to index page.
26/06/2008 Add new APA analysis on Russian fighter technology.
25/06/2008 Revised Su-34 Fullback analysis, add new Su-33/33UB Flanker D page.
24/06/2008
Add Defence Today articles: NCW101 series; GIS/ISR - Fusion on the battlefield; Chemical and Biological Weapons; Knowledge Warfare; Radio frequency spectrum congestion – Emerging headache for NCW; Regional Air Power Developments 2007; Anti-Shipping Missile Survey; The Technology of Improvised Explosive Devices; Origins of the Assault Rifle; Milestones: Early cruise missile operations; Ballistic Missile Operations; Genesis of the Bunker Busting Bomb; Operating the F-22 Raptor - A 1st Fighter Wing USAF Perspective; Pacific Raptors:  F-22A based in Alaska; US strategic overstretch and regional impact; Russian fighters –capability assessment;  miscellaneous formatting fixes.
19/06/2008
APA apologises for the 48 hours of site downtime. This was due to technical problems with the ISP's Linux cluster.
09/06/2008 Sundry fixes to multiple pages; updated 76N6 Clam Shell analysis.
08/06/2008 Restructure regional capabilities page indexing structure to simplify navigation; add title page hotlink to regional capabilities page; further updated Regional Precision Guided Munitions page.
07/06/2008 Add Russian Air Defence Command Post page; updated Regional Precision Guided Munitions page; including SS-N-27 GLCM and ALCM, additional imagery including KAB-500SE satellite guided bomb.
04/06/2008
Updated Tor M2E analysis and S-400 analysis.
03/06/2008 Updated Russian Low Band radar analysis; add  Vostok VHF solid state radar analysis.
02/06/2008 Updated/expanded High Energy Laser weapons analysis with PLA analysis.
01/06/2008
Updated/expanded High Energy Laser weapons analysis.
31/05/2008 Updated APA analysis covering Russian / PLA Point Defence Weapons HEL DEW; Russian / PLA Point Defence Weapons with Ranets E HPM DEW ie "RF Cannon".
30/05/2008 Updated/expanded High Energy Laser weapons analysis - Russian airborne laser testbed.
29/05/2008 RUSI lecture slides now available under NOTAM #23. Updated APA analysis covering Russian / PLA Point Defence Weapons with Ranets E HPM DEW ie "RF Cannon".
27/05/2008
Updated/expanded High Energy Laser weapons analysis.
20/05/2008 Updated APA analysis covering Russian / PLA Point Defence Weapons with HEL DEW; add additional imagery esp Kupol JSC.
19/05/2008
Add new APA analysis covering Russian / PLA Point Defence Weapons.
18/05/2008 Updated S-300PMU1/2 and S-400 analysis, including new imagery.
17/05/2008 Add new APA Analysis on JSF Program progress.
16/05/2008 Add NOTAM #22 by WgCdr Chris Mills, RAAF (Retd)
03/05/2008
Add new analysis on Emitter Locating Systems / ELINT Systems; updated Russian Low Band radar analysis with JY-27.
29/04/2008
Add detailed technical analysis of Russian 1L119 Nebo SVU VHF-band AESA counter-stealth radar.
23/04/2008 Add NOTAM #21 by Col Medved (retd) dealing with Russian counter-stealth technology.
20/04/2008 Add NOTAM #20 by Col Medved (retd) dealing with BVR missile combat.
15/04/2008 Updated Russian Low Band radar analysis; add new images and Nebo SVU VHF AESA analysis.
13/04/2008 Add NOTAM #19 by Col Medved (retd) dealing with radar lethal electronic attack.
02/04/2008
Add new APA analysis on Flanker Radars in BVR Air Combat.
25/03/2008
Add new APA analysis on Russian BVR missiles.
13/03/2008
APA has decided to make public its ministerial submission on fighter matters. The documents are available under NOTAM #18 by Dr Carlo Kopp and Peter Goon.
15/02/2008 Add NOTAM #17  by Peter Goon.
05/02/2008
Add new APA analysis on RAAF air base hardening issues.
24/01/2008
Add updated refuelling infrastructure analysis and USAF synfuels analysis.
23/01/2008
Add F-22A video footage to analysis page.
20/01/2008
Update F-22A Exercises with table of planned unit assignments.
13/01/2008
Add new APA Analysis  by AIRCDRE Ted Bushell (retd).
06/01/2008
Add NOTAM #15  by AIRCDRE Ted Bushell (retd), NOTAM #16 by Peter Goon.



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