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Australia invests in training equipment

12th March 2020 - 23:00 GMT | by Flavia Camargos Pereira in London

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The Australian Department of Defence is intensifying its efforts to improve how armed forces personnel are trained, with the award to Raytheon Australia of a $330 million contract to provide Joint Adversarial Training and Testing Services (JATTS).

This system will support Australian Defence Force (ADF) exercises in the air, land and naval domains for eight years. According to the department, the main services to be delivered include aerial opposing force effects, manned and unmanned targets and electronic attack capabilities.

JATTS includes testing, training and certification of IFF Mode 5 interrogation systems used by the ADF, and airborne threat simulations. It

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