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“So you’ve got to start considering how you respond to threats, how you establish deterrents, how you operate, and just exercise and be familiar with the place.”
The RAAF are even more absent than Army – “in fact probably even more so. Despite pilot training at RAAF Pearce, we have more Singaporean fighter capability in the state than Australian.
forms such as Hawkei or a G-Wagon. The electro-optic head was removable to ensure heli-portability, while the system could be fitted to and removed from a host vehicle of whatever size by two people.
TITANIS
A scaleable, fully integrated counter-unmanned aerial sys- tem (C-UAS) capability that employs soft-kill, hard-kill, and directed-energy effectors was unveiled by EOS.
Based on the EOS R-series remote weapon station (RWS), Titanis combines detection, command-and-control (C2), and layered capabilities to acquire, track, and defeat all types of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), including fixed-wing platforms and ‘Class 3’ quadcopters weighing up to 600 kg.
UAVs are located using a software-defined, 4D, active elec- tronically scanned-array (AESA) pulse Doppler radar with an extremely high elevation coverage and a range of about 10,000 m, as well as passive radio frequency (RF) detection. Day-time and thermal-imaging cameras, a laser rangefinder, and advanced video software track UAV targets from about 4,700 m before a non-kinetic radio-frequency inhibitor is used to defeat the UAV.
If unsuccessful, Titanis will switch to hard kill mode and an EOS-manufactured 35 kw laser will engage targets out to 4,000 m, with high rates of target engagement capable of defeating a swarm attack. The laser will eventually be upgraded to 55 kw.
Closer-range ballistic effectors comprise the Mk44S 30mm cannon mounted on an EOS R800 RWS firing pro-
ABOVE: EOS will use Raider Targetry’s system to support a comprehensive test fire program for its R400 RWS.
“NOW THAT THERE’S A REFOCUS ON THE DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA, ARMY MUST ADDRESS OPERATING IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA”
“At least we’ve got half the RAN at HMAS Stirling but they don’t ex- ercise very much in the northwest, they exercise in the southwest and sail past on their way to Asia or the Middle East.”
Touching on defence industry, Pa- palia said Western Australia was not getting anywhere near its appropri- ate share “and that’s not a parochial
argument, there should more done in WA in the national interest and people in WA know that, and there’s a federal election coming.”
PRECISION TECHNIC DEFENCE
Only a few metres from where the Minister was speak- ing, the West Australian subsidiary of Danish company Precision Technic Defence was displaying a mobile sensor system comprising a six-metre telescopic mast topped by a TACFLIR 280, a long-range multi-spectral surveillance capability designed for operations in the toughest terrains.
Managing Director Gregory Whitehouse said the capa- bility had been selected by the Danish army and met the light mobility requirement of the Land 1508 Phase 1 Grey- fin special operations capability assurance program. It was also ideally suited for Pilbara Regiment operations.
The system could be easily integrated onto smaller plat-
EOS