No. 1 Radar Surveillance Unit RAAF

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1RSU
Active	July 1, 1992
Branch	RAAF
Role	Radar Surveillance
Part of	41 Wing
Garrison/HQ	RAAF Base Edinburgh
Motto	Aegis Bastion

No. 1 Radar Surveillance Unit (1RSU) is the Royal Australian Air Force unit responsible for operating the Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN). While 1 RSU's headquarters are located at RAAF Base Edinburgh the unit also has personnel stationed at the JORN sites near Longreach, Queensland, Alice Springs, Northern Territory and Laverton, Western Australia.

1RSU was established on 1 July 1992 to operate the initial JORN site at Alice Springs and moved to RAAF Base Edinburgh in 1999. The sites at Longreach and Laverton were commissioned in mid-2003. In addition to the JORN sites, 1RSU operates the JORN Correlation Centre at RAAF Base Edinburgh which is responsible for providing JORN data to the system's 'customers', which include the Australian Strategic Theatre Joint Intelligence Centre and Northern Command.