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Wedgetail sets mission duration record

written by WOFA | November 12, 2015
An E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning, control and surveillance aircraft at its operating base in the Middle East Region after completing a new record by flying a 17.1 hour operational mission over Iraq and Syria. Along with a RAAF KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport aircraft and six F/A-18 Hornets, the Australian aircraft participate in close air support and precision strike operations, air-to-air refuelling and airborne command and control in Iraq and Syria as part of the international coalition formed to disrupt and degrade the Daesh threat.
Wedgetail at its operating base in the Middle East Region after its record setting 17.1 hour operational mission over Iraq and Syria. (Defence)

A Royal Australian Air Force E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning and control platform has set a new record by flying a 17-hour operational mission over Iraq and Syria, Defence stated on November 11.

The senior surveillance and control officer explained that coalition demand for surveillance aircraft like the Wedgetail is substantial: “Even before the addition of Russian operations in Syria there was a lot happening in the region that we needed to survey.

“The Russian operations have only increased the complexity of an already very complex area, making our work even more important.”

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