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Tuesday, August 01, 2006

War games expose frontline fighter's battle weakness
Neil James, the executive director of the Australia Defence Association, has questioned the value of continuing with the $3 billion upgrade of RAAF's Hornets after they were trounced at the recent Red Flag.

The poor results were attributed to substandard electronic warfare system and bomb targeting pods. A project to upgrade these systems have run into trouble recently.

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How missiles miss the target

Exposed: $200m missile bungle

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