Air Power Development Centre Publications Catalogue - Pathfinder

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Pathfinder is a fortnightly bulletin from the Air Power Development Centre. Its title is a tribute to the Pathfinder Force which operated within RAF Bomber Command from August 1942. The original Pathfinders were an elite navigational group with the role of preceding each raid and accurately lighting up the target area with incendiary fires to permit visual bombing by the main force. The first commander was Group Captain (later Air Vice-Marshal) D.C.T. Bennett, a Queenslander who trained with the RAAF in 1930-31 before transferring to the RAF, and many other Australians also flew with the force.

The emblem we have adopted is 'Fiery Mo', the unofficial insignia carried on No.6 Squadron's Hudson aircraft in New Guinea during 1943.

These are available for download and are in PDF format and average 2.5Mb each in size.

Issue	Title
#80 - November 2007	Active Electronically Scanned Array Radars Part 2 – The Significance of AESA Radar Technology
#79 - November 2007	Active Electronically Scanned Array Radars Part 1 – Overview
#78 - November 2007	The RAAF’s First Peacekeepers
#77 - October 2007	The Asymmetry Of Air Power
#76 - October 2007	The RAAF in ‘Konfrontasi’
#75 - September 2007	Precision Airdrop – The Future of Arial Supply
#74 - September 2007	Northern Territory Special Reconnaissance Unit
#73 - August 2007	Realising True Net-centric Capability: Integrated Readiness Management
#72 - August 2007	TSR-2: A British Story with an Australian Chapter
#71 - July 2007	The Air Campaign
#70 - July 2007	Wau, New Guinea – The Forgotten Airlift
#69 - June 2007	AP-3C Operations in the MEAO – New Missions for New Wars
#68 - June 2007	Women – An Untapped Resource
#67 - May 2007	Humanitarian Assistance – Operation Sumatra Assist: An Air Operations View
#66 - May 2007	Coast Watchers: An Early ISR Network
#65 - April 2007	ADF’s New Multi-role Tanker Transport Capability
#64 - April 2007	RAAF Evacuation of Australians from Iran, 1979
#63 - March 2007	The Evolving and Adapting Air Operations Centre
#62 - March 2007	A Fresh Look at Air Attack
#61 - February 2007	Air Control Doctrine – A Contemporary Analysis
#60 - February 2007	Air Control Doctrine – Myth or Reality
#59 - January 2007	The On-Going Evolution of Air Power Application
#58 - December 2006	The Doctrinal Contribution of AVM Wrigley – a Fresh Assessment
#57 - November 2006	Exploiting the Near-Space
#56 - November 2006	“N.Z.3” – First Joint Exercise for the RAAF
#55 - October 2006	Small Air Forces, UAVs and Operational Flexibility
#54 - October 2006	Air Power in Defence of Australia – Early Thoughts
#53 - September 2006	Turning Efficiency into Effectiveness – Swing-role Air Combat Capability
#52 - September 2006	One Family’s Long Air Tradition
#51 - August 2006	Professional Mastery in the Application of Air Power
#50 - August 2006	Responsive Global Airlift - An Australian Perspective
#49 - July 2006	The Need for Speed - Future Hypersonic Military Systems
#48 - July 2006	The Defence of Darwin, 1964
#47 - June 2006	Battlespace Superiority in the Future
#46 - June 2006	Battlespace Superiority Today
#45 - May 2006	Battlespace Superiority II
#44 - May 2006	Battlespace Superiority
#43 - April 2006	The Smuts Report
#42 - April 2006	Directed Energy Lasers - A New Breed of Weaponry
#41 - March 2006	Ancestors of the UAV
#40 - March 2006	Suppression of Enemy Air Defences - A Primary Mission
#39 - February 2006	D.C.T. Bennett - Airman Extraordinary
#38 - December 2005	The Ascendancy of Electronic Warfare
#37 - December 2005	The Air Campaign Over the Kokoda Trail
#36 - November 2005	Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicles - Challenges for the Future
#35 - November 2005	Butterworth: The RAAF’s Only Overseas Base
#34 - October 2005	Weapons in Space
#33 - October 2005	Defeating Germany's Weapons of Mass Destruction
#32 - September 2005	Enablers - The Critical Factor
#31 - September 2005	Award Winning History
#30 - August 2005	Future Space Capabilities
#29 - August 2005	Exploring the Nuclear Option
#28 - July 2005	Air Force Experiment - Headway: Some Insights
#27 - July 2005	Why the Red Centre Vanished
#26 - July 2005	The Coarse Art of Air Force Experimentation
#25 - June 2005	Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth
#24 - June 2005	Cruise Missiles - A Double-Edged Sword
#23 - May 2005	Phantoms of the Past
#22 - May 2005	Space Power and the RAAF
#21 - April 2005	The RAAF Experience of National Service
#20 - April 2005	Air Power in Urban Operations
#19 - March 2005	RAAF in Antarctica
#18 - March 2005	The Shape of Things to Come
#17 - February 2005	A Family of "War Loan" Beaufighters
#16 - February 2005	The Ongoing Debate - Why an "Air First" Approach?
#15 - January 2005	Precision - The Coming of Age of Air Power
#14 - January 2005	Chindits - A Reappraisal
#13 - December 2004	Australian Air Contribution to D-Day Operations
#12 - November 2004	Ten Air Power Pointers from Iraq 2003
#11 - November 2004	The Difference One Man Makes
#10 - October 2004	There is no Substitute for Air Power
#9 - October 2004	Meteors Versus MiGs
#8 - October 2004	Are Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicles Coming of Age?
#7 - September 2004	Bomber Command Memorial
#6 - September 2004	Which Air Power Capability is Most Important?
#5 - August 2004	Airborne Forward Air Control - A First for the RAAF
#4 - August 2004	Aerospace? Don't you mean Air and Space?
#3 - July 2004	Aerial Torpedoes - A Weapon System Failure
#2 - July 2004	The Changing Face of Air Power
#1 - June 2004	Iraq - The First Time Around

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