Date
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Advisory
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03/07/2009
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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
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Add further material to SNR-75 / Fan
Song analysis.
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28/06/2009
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Add further material to 5N62 Square Pair
analysis; Miscellaneous fixes.
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27/06/2009
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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.
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22/06/2009
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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”.
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21/06/2009
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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.
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20/06/2009
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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.
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17/06/2009
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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.
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14/06/2009
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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
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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.
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10/06/2009
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Add
new page covering Air Defence System
Defensive Aids, covering decoys, MAWS and other countermeasures for
radars and SAM systems.
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08/06/2009
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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
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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.
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| 30/05/2009 |
Updated
Nebo SVU with
further antenna imagery generously provided by Miroslav Gyűrösi. |
29/05/2009
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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
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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.
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26/05/2009
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Updated Nebo SVU, Square Pair
with additional material.
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| 21/05/2009 |
Updated Gamma S1 with new
high mobility variant.
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19/05/2009
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Add
new wheeled Buk M2E / SA-17 Grizzly imagery to Engagement and
Fire Control Radars page, and Search and Acquisition
Radars page.
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18/05/2009
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Updated
Nebo SVU analysis with parametric
comparison against the Nebo M RLM-M VHF band radar.
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17/05/2009
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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.
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08/05/2009
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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).
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| 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
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12/04/2009
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Updated SA-2 and SA-3 TEL entries;
Fan
Song and Low
Blow entries.
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| 11/04/2009 |
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| 08/04/2009 |
Add new NOTAM F-22: 187 Raptors is NOT Enough! |
| 06/04/2009 |
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04/04/2009
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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;
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| 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.
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01/04/2009
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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
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Add new NOTAM Accountability vs
Indifference to What is Real |
30/03/2009
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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
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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.
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| 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.
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| 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
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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
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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.
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07/03/2009
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Formatting changes to APA
Analyses page.
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05/03/2009
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Rebuild NOTAMs page to ease user access.
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| 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
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Add new NOTAM JSF: WGCDR Mills Responds to Maj Gen
Davis |
27/02/2009
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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
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| 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
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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
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Expand
F-22 index page with section on "Why America Needs
More F-22 Raptors". Add hotlinks.
|
03/02/2009
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Add new APA Analysis Surviving the Modern Integrated Air Defence
System. |
01/02/2009
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Updated
SA-8
Gecko
with new material generously provided by Miroslav Gyűrösi.
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30/01/2009
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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
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Add new NOTAM Breaking the Kill Chain. |
18/01/2009
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Add
new NOTAM SAM system hybridisation.
|
| 17/01/2009 |
Updated
Surface
to Air Missile System Radar Index, Counter Stealth radar
pages. |
16/01/2009
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Updated PLA
Air Defence Radar, Counter Stealth radar
pages. |
14/01/2009
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Add
new reference on PLA
Air Defence Radars, excerpted from Chinese Radars by J.C Wise. |
09/01/2009
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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
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Updated/expanded
Surface
to Air Missile System TEL / Radar Mobility page; updated Engagement and Fire Control Radars
page. |
07/01/2009
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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.
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06/01/2009
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Updated/expanded SAM/AAA Multimedia page.
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05/01/2009
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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.
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03/01/2009
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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
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Add new S/X-Band Acquisition Radar page to
Regional Capabilities page.
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31/12/2008
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Add Surface to Air Missile System Radar Index
to Regional Capabilities page. |
30/12/2008
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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
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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
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Add
new APA Analysis
entitled Rebuilding
the Warrior Ethos by AIRCDRE E. J.
Bushell AM, RAAF (Retd). |
12/12/2008
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Add
new analysis - The
Impact of Russian
High Technology Weapons: Transforming the Strategic Balance in Asia.
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02/12/2008
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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
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Add new analysis - Assessing Joint Strike Fighter Air Combat
Capabilities |
12/10/2008
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Updated Fullback analysis with new cockpit and EO
targeting system details.
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01/10/2008
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Added
AIR DOMINANCE: THE
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENT AFA presentation by Dr R.P. Hallion [posted
with permission from the author] |
30/08/2008
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Added Shenyang J-11B Flanker B page.
|
22/09/2008
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Updated S-400
analysis with more recent technical material on missiles and
radar.
|
01/09/2008
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Layout modifications to
multiple pages.
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30/08/2008
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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
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23/08/2008
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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.
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18/08/2008
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Add
new APA Analysis covering National Military
Strategy and the Defence 2008 White Paper.
|
04/08/2008
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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
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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.
|
| 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
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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
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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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