Funding to ADF Operations increases by 40%

The Rudd Government has clearly signaled its operational priorities in the 2009-2010 budget released last month. Total spending on ADF operations has increased from A$1.218 billion in FY2008-2009 to A$1.699 billion for FY2009-2010 including A$1381.1 million for Afghanistan alone. Read more...

Geospatial Systems

Geospatial technologies are playing an ever-increasing role in boosting the military capabilities of many nations, and it is no coincidence that the recent Australian Defence White Paper addresses issues of satellite technology.  It is an undeniable fact that Geospatial Information Technology (based on satellite data) makes a huge contribution to... Read more...

J-XX The PLAAF’s Plans for a Stealthy Fifth Generation Fighter

There is very little information available about the J-XX. The existence of the program was first disclosed by US Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) in 1997 when J-XX was described as a 4th generation fighter to enter the service around 2015. China, however, tends to use Russian parlance, and in Russian parlance J-XX is a fifth generation fighter. Read more...

Rebalancing – with more change on the way

There are good and bad things in this US DoD’s Fiscal 2010 budget proposals.  President Obama and the US DoD recognise – unlike Prime Minister Rudd – that there are limits to the size of the country’s coffers for military expenditure, despite the fact that the war in Afghanistan is rapidly replacing the one in Iraq and is escalating very rapidly. Read more...