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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Unworkable Wedgetail radar may kill off $3.5b aircraft deal


Boeing 737-700 Wedgetail First Flight

Australia's most troubled defence project, the $3.5 billion purchase of six early warning aircraft, is more than four years late and could collapse.

Things are so bad that US radar experts have been called in to assess whether the vital Project Wedgetail will get off the ground.

Senior military officers have admitted the prime contractor, US giant Boeing, and its sub-contractors have no idea how to fix the main problem - an unworkable radar system.

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