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A New Approach and Attitude to Electronic Warfare in Australia

And that’s not just airpower, that’s across the entire joint space.

This requires us to fundamentally change our exercise approach to train aviators in the kill web. It is a
fundamental in dealing with the kinds of adversaries we find in the real world.

We cannot take yesterday’s “block and tackle” combat aircraft approach to train to be the kind of distributed
mission commanders we need in the future air combat force.

We need to focus on the sensor-shooter relationship in which we can deliver distributed kinetic and non-kinetic
effects.

And this comes from within the kill web.

Put another way, you are training for autonomy in all of the weapon shooter nodes and crafting the overall
impact accordingly.

Our decisive advantage is going to be in our ability to operate in high-tempo ops, fully networked.

That’s what will make it a completely unfair fight.
It’s not going to be about mass and numbers; that will always have a part to play.

But our decisive advantage has to be our ability to just run our kill web at high speed.

We have parts of our organization that are now thinking at the tactical and operational level in fifth-generation
sense, but we are yet to exercise the enabling and support function in that same mindset.

That’s a challenge for us.

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With a major reshaping effort under way as described by Air Commander Australia, how does the Chief of
the RAAF see then the role of the RAAF?

“Our core business is to ensure that we can be a responsible element of whatever coalition the government
determines we need to work with to meet Australian interests

“Australia and the Air Force in particular need to be equipped, trained and agile enough to be effective.

“Our core business is to focus on day-to-day management of sovereign Australia territory and interests.

"And that can vary from our contribution to the monitoring of fisheries, or of dealing with people smuggling,
or of being aware of what's in the sky above us, and what might be in the sky above us in years to come, is
our everyday evolution of a defense force.

“We can do that better if we understand our neighborhood as well as we understand our own country.

"We have consciously begun to shape a trained workforce and a strategy which prioritizes our international
engagement and our relationship with our neighbors,

“We've had strong military-to-military relationships with our neighbors for many decades. And we look to
strengthen and improve our effect in this domain.”

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