Exercise Diamond Storm runs from June 5-27.

It will continue the training regime of the RAAF’s Air Warfare Instructors Course.

The exercise involves pilots, intelligence officers and air combat officers across a range of Air Force platforms, including F/A-18A Classic Hornets, F/A-18F Super Hornets, E-7A Wedgetail, and C-130J Hercules aircraft.

Conducted by the Air Warfare Centre, the aim of the AWIC is to graduate expert leaders and instructors capable of tactics development, validation and instruction.

The last in a series of training exercises, Diamond Storm will be conducted from RAAF Bases Darwin and Tindal and will operate over the Northern Territory training areas.

The Diamond Series of exercises is designed to enhance integration of people and systems; facilitated by the introduction of the fifth generation capabilities coming into service.

As ADF platforms interact, electronically, so too must the human elements interact more closely to get the greatest benefit from this technology.

The AWIC, developed by the Air Warfare Centre, has done that and each component of the course has prepared RAAF instructors to be more effective in the integrated Air Warfare space.

Graduates will provide leadership in the development of future tactics and help determine how those tactics can be used to enhance the ADF’s joint warfighting capability using fifth generation capabilities.

The course exercises complex war-like scenarios and the students put their newly developed skills into practice and make decisions which will shape the way RAAF fights in the future; in an integrated war-space using fifth generation capabilities.