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In this March 28, 1999 file photo, Yugoslav army experts check the wreckage of a downed American
F-117 aircraft, in the village of Budjanovci, 45 km (30 miles) northwest of Belgrade. Chinese officials
recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter - and some of the technology it turns out, may well
have come from the U.S. itself - in the form of a U.S. jet that was shot down over Serbia in 1999.
(AP Photo/Vladimir Dimitrijevic Tanjug)
By David Axe
January 24, 2011 DANGER ROOM
On March 27, during the height of NATO’s air war on
Serbia, a very smart and very lucky Serbian air-defense commander achieved the seemingly impossible. Firing three 1960s-vintage SA-3 missiles, Col. Zoltan Dani managed to shoot down an attacking
U.S. Air Force F-117 stealth fighter-bomber piloted by Lt. Col. Dale Zelko. NATO commanders had been sending the alliance’s planes, including the stealth attackers, into Serbia along predictable
routes, allowing Dani to carefully plan his missile ambush. A fast-acting team of Air Force A-10 attack planes and helicopters retrieved Zelko intact, but not so the wreckage of the colonel’s
top-secret jet, one of the technological stars of the 1991 Gulf War. The destroyed F-117’s left wing, canopy and ejection seat — plus Zelko’s helmet — wound up in a Belgrade aviation museum, but
most of the rest of the 15-ton jet was gathered up by farmers living around the crash site. Twelve years later, some of those components may have finally surfaced — in the design of China’s new
J-20 stealth fighter. If true, and that’s a huge “if,” the partly American origin of China’s first radar-evading warplane could be both a damning indictment of the Pentagon’s reliance on
easily-copied high technology, and a potential comfort to U.S. military planners desperately trying to assess the J-20’s impact on Pacific war plans.
Another interesting point
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The Hon. Jason Clare MP
Minister for Defence Materiel.
Better communications system to help keep soldiers safe
"Defence today signed a $69 million contract to deliver faster and more reliable communications on the battlefield.
Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare said the contract with Raytheon would provide:
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more than 1000 radios, which will be mounted on Army vehicles, primarily Bushmasters and M113 armoured vehicles,
and handheld portable radios to be carried by soldiers in the field;
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equipment needed to mount and operate the radios; and
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maintenance and support services for three years.
These new radios will give frontline soldiers and the Commanders directing them instant information on where they are, where
they need to be and what is happening around them,” Mr Clare said.
Right now, the Army is using an older, analogue system which is fast becoming obsolete.
It’s served our troops well, but it’s time to move the Army forward into the digital age.
This new system will be faster and more reliable, allowing troops to communicate instantly with the central command
post.
It will help Commanders plan better by giving them more accurate and timely information about what is happening on the
ground.
This will help keep our soldiers safe.
It’s the next step in our plan to deliver a fully digital communications system to the Army.”
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