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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Williamtown base radar system revealed

Williamtown base radarHours before the Malaysia Airlines plane bound for Kuala Lumpur was shot down over Ukraine, the Newcastle Herald was being shown a radar defence system at Williamtown RAAF base that will play a key role in security for the G20 leaders’ summit in Brisbane in November.

In the Williamtown base’s Eastern Region Operations Centre, the Herald watched on as air-battle managers engaged with a wave of RAAF fighters and a radar-carrying Boeing 737 – the E-7A Wedgetail ‘‘airborne early warning and control platform’’ – taking part in simulated war games over the ocean off Newcastle.

At the time, the detailed defence briefing and the tactical manoeuvres of the F/A-18 pilots had more of a theoretical air than a real-life urgency.

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