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A New Approach and Attitude to Electronic Warfare in Australia

"It was a work of art.

“The infantry officer came at the end came up says, "Hey, that was fantastic, but I think that's not very
realistic."

“We need to capture it on live streaming video see we can see a confirmation of those targets."
“I commented: Well it's overcast, they're not going to be streaming video, and you're probably not going to
have a Reaper out there, right? It's going to get shot down."

“He goes, "We need more time so we can review the video feeds."

“I said, we have to remove the admirals and the generals out of the kill chain.
“If the pilots have got the right RoE, let them loose.

“If you inject too many decision makers from on high, you're going to get Solders, Sailors and Airmen killed.”

Davis added: “We're going to grow the F-35; We’re going to be very aggressive about growing capabilities
in the F-35. It's good at what it does right now; it'll be a hell of a lot better in the future.”

He then went on to describe other roll-outs of evolving EW capability for the MAGTF.
Second Line of Defense

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