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PROJECT to upgrade electronic warfare equipment is expected to vastly
improve the ADF’s ability to detect enemy forces by their electronic
emissions.
The $150 million project is aimed at updating the range of currently
in-service electronic warfare systems designed to intercept emissions
from an adversary’s communications, surveillance and weapon
control systems.
Titled Project Bunyip, the venture will provide the ADF with new
deployable electronic warfare equipment. The Army will be equipped
with signals interception technology that can be fitted to light
vehicles and supported with an improved communications network and
soldiers on the ground will also get new electronic jamming systems
able to jam, neutralise or deceive enemy radio communications and
radar systems.
The new capabilities should begin to be introduced from 2008.
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