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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Defence takes delviery of first two troubled Wedgetail jets

Boeing 737-700 AEW&C (Wedgetail)Defence has taken delivery of two Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft, four years behind schedule for the $4 billion project.

Listed in the black book of Greg Combet, Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, as a “project of concern” the aircraft's developmental MESA radar is not delivering its much hyped specifications.

Today, defence admitted technical bugs still needed to be fixed.

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