The RAAF will have to wait nearly 12 months before its six Boeing 737 Wedgetails' airborne early warning and control system are fully operational.
Despite impressing US and other observers during the multinational Exercise RIMPAC earlier this year in Hawaii, the Wedgetail's complex radar and communications system is taking longer to mature than everybody had hoped according to Defence's project manager Chris Deeble.
The air vice-marshal tells The Australian some obstinate technical issues with the mission, computer, electronic warfare, tactical data link and radar tracking software have not been fixed satisfactorily yet.
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