Better Eyes for F-18 Super Hornets

The Royal Australian Air Force have acquired 24 APG-79 AESA array radar system affixed upon their FA-18 Superhornets, some 24 are now fully fitted and are fully operational within RAAF bases throughout Australia, particularly at the Amberley Air Force Base, South West of Brisbane. The 82nd Wing of the 1st and 6th squadron, of teh RAAF, have 24 FA-18 Superhornets stationed on location.

The APG-79 AESA system represents the latest state of the art electronic warfare capability for the Australian defense system which is unparalleled within the South East region air defense capabilities. Suffice it to suggest, that the current generation 4, multi-role fighter jet, which has been recently made operational within RAAF was procured specifically to replace the antiquated F111 Aardvark. The FA-18, Superhornet, was made fully operational within Australia in 2011, and will become, with the augmentation of the APG-79 AESA Array Radar system, the latest military exponent to be made fully operational throughout the South East Asian region.

However, come 2014, will we see the highly anticipated arrival of the JSF-35 Strikefighter multi-role fighter jet, which is considered a generation 5 level fighting craft which will match the Chinese most recent public release of their generation 5, multi-role fighter aircraft.


http://youtu.be/4tsH-Q8jZk0 Joint Strike Fighter, JSF-35, will enjoin the 82 Wing 1st sqd, and the 6th Sqd, of the RAAF come 2014, when, some 100 JSF 35, which have been procured and manufactured within the USA, specifically for the RAAF.

The JSF35 will be fitted with AN/APG-81 AESA Radar, designed by Northrop-Grumman, plus 6 additional passive infrared sensors, the AN/AAQ-37, called the Distributed Aperture System (DAS) in particular, gives the JSF-35 a hightened sensitvity in the skies, which will sense the departure points of Surface to air missles, their locality, and to vector co-ordinates for eliminating the threat. These sensors also detects air to air launched missiles by hostile aircrafts.

The most likely threat to the airspace dominance of the JSF35, certainly within the next two decades within South East Asian skies at least, could only come from the Chinese airforce.

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Tim Tufuga Brisbane.