Historical photographs of Wireless Troop... http://www.awm.gov.au/search-awm/collections/?q=Mesopotamia+wireless&conflict=first+world+war%2C+1914-1918&submit=Search Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > Some History.... >> The Royal Australian Corps of Signals (RASigs) is one of the 'arms' (combat >> support corps) of the Australian Army. It is responsible for installing, >> maintaining and operating all types of telecommunications equipment and >> information systems. > ... >> Australia has the unique distinction of having had the first regularly >> formed signal unit in the British Empire... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Australian_Corps_of_Signals > >> The 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron was a unit of the Australian >> Imperial Force (AIF) which served in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) during >> World War I. Formed in late 1915, it took part in the Mesopotamian Campaign >> from 1916 to 1918, providing communications to British forces. Later, >> elements of the squadron served as part of Dunsterforce in 1918 and 1919, >> and in Kurdistan in 1919. The unit was also known as the 1st Wireless Signal >> Squadron and 1st Australian and New Zealand Signal Squadron. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Australian_Wireless_Signal_Squadron > > Australians in Mesopotamia (Chapter 1, The Signal Units, 1916-17) > http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1069687--1-.PDF > > Marghanita > > Tom Worthington wrote: >> On 19/08/14 23:19, Stephen Loosley wrote: >> >>> ... technology and specifically ... >> The "Future Land Warfare Report 2014" from the Australian Army's >> Directorate of Future Land Warfare Headquarters said "Military cyber >> operations can be as effective as precision-guided munitions against >> either a nation-state or a non-state actor": >> http://www.army.gov.au/~/media/Files/Our%20future/Publications/FLWR_Web_B5_Final.pdf >> >> My suggestion was an "Australian CyberWarfare Battalion", made up of >> reserve personnel working in the IT industry: >> http://blog.tomw.net.au/2013/08/australian-cyberwarfare-battalion.html >> >> Also Australia could order four additional P-8 Poseidon Maritime Patrol >> Aircraft, fitted with CEA Technologies' Australian phased array radar >> technology, for electronic warfare and surveillance: >> http://blog.tomw.net.au/2014/03/maritime-patrol-aircraft-with.html >> >> Australia has already ordered EA-18G "Growler" Electronic Warfare >> variants of the F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft: >> http://blog.tomw.net.au/2012/09/australia-purchaing-electronic-warfare.html >> >> Also Australia should limit it purchase of submarines to six >> conventionally powered ones, smaller than the current Collins class. >> Instead investment could be made in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles >> (AUVs) to be launched from the submarines. The AUVs can use technology >> from the one person submarine made in Sydney for James Cameron: >> http://blog.tomw.net.au/2014/08/james-camerons-submarine-made-in-sydney.html >> >> > >
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