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Australia to deploy surveillance aircraft to assist Ukraine

The E-7A Wedgetail is one of Australia's most sophisticated surveillance planes [File: Cpl David Gibbs/Australian Defence via AFP]

Australia will send a Royal Australian Air Force surveillance aircraft to Germany to help support Ukraine by protecting vital humanitarian and military supply lines.

The E-7A Wedgetail, one of Australia’s most sophisticated early warning and airborne control platforms, will be based in Germany for six months along with as many as 100 crew and support personnel, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told a news conference in Berlin on Monday.

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