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and development that will lend itself to synergies for operations, training, and support.
While the USN program expects to achieve Ini- tial Operational Capability (IOC) in 2023 for what will ultimately be a 68-aircraft fleet, the RAAF seems unlikely to achieve the same with its initial airframe until late 2024.
PERSISTENT OVERLAND AND LITTORAL ISR
US approval for Australia to buy up to 12 weapons- ready General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) MQ-9B SkyGuardian RPAS air vehicles and associated equipment at an estimated cost of US1.6 billion was announced in April.
This represented the latest step in Project Air
7003 Phase 1, aimed at acquiring an armed me-
dium altitude, long endurance RPAS capability under Air 7003 Phase 1. Should second pass approval be achieved in mid-2022 as expected, deliveries are anticipated in the 2023/2024 timeframe with IOC to follow 12 months later.
Surprisingly, considering that the MQ-9B will be the ADF’s first armed RPAS, Defence chose on its program web- site to emphasise the SkyGuardian’s persistent ISR and elec- tronic warfare capabilities over its precision strike attributes for the land and littoral environments.
For its part, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said the proposed sale was designed to enhance the RAAF’s capabilities not only in ISR, but also in target acquisition, submarine location, and counter- land and counter- surface sea operations.
Approved equipment includes the Leonardo/Selex Sea- spray 7500E V2 multi-mode maritime radar, carried in a pod on the centreline station together with the automatic Identi- fication ship-tracking system, confirming an enhanced mar-
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