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Australia To Reduce The Scope of EW Self-Protection For Rotary Wing Aircraft

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Friday, September 25th, 2009

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Australia's Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science Greg Combet recently announced the government agreed to a Defence recommendation to reduce the scope for approved project AIR 5416 Phase 2--electronic warfare self protection for rotary wing assets, known as Project Echidna, under prime contractor BAE Systems. Combet said Defence will complete modifications to 12 Black Hawk helicopters to provide a basic level of electronic warfare self protection but discontinue work on a more advanced equipment suite including the Australian developed…

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