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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

It's welcome Wedgetails and farewell workhorses

Boeing 737-700 AEW&C (Wedgetail) |It's taken 20 years and well over $3 billion, but the RAAF finally has six of the best airborne warning and control aircraft money can buy.

On the same day the service farewelled two of its veteran C-130 Hercules load carriers in Sydney, Defence Materiel Minister Jason Clare and Chief of Airforce Air Vice-Marshal Geoff Brown announced in Canberra the Wedgetail has finally reached initial operating capability.

The declaration is expected to end the program's four-year sojourn on the defence minister's ''projects of concern list'', currently the subject of a high-level conference in Canberra.

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