Adelaide will be the centre of Australia’s strategic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fleet, complementing the fleet of P-8A Poseidon aircraft based at RAAF Base Edinburgh.
Twelve maritime surveillance aircraft are based at RAAF Base Edinburgh, also the location for deep level maintenance thanks to a new purpose-built Defence 373 deep maintenance and modification facility (DMMF).
A multi-billion-dollar investment in three over-the-horizon radar systems that use the ionosphere to monitor air and sea movements across at least 37,000 square kilometres.