Why has the RAAC been decimated?
Why has 1st Armoured Regiment been stripped of all its tanks and given a new role as a non-combatant, evaluating
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Author: Posted by Brian Hartigan
Prize idiot (nearly) installs dust collector
I’ve been plugging away with the dust collector move. It’s not a big deal – or shouldn’t be. All I’m
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The RAAC: Back to the future … the sooner the better
“From the start of 2025 … the 2nd Cavalry Regiment will be the heaviest and most combat capable manoeuvre regiment
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FOR SALE: 3 x Vic Bks in massive estate purge
The Australian government received an audit report of Defence estate at the end of 2023 and today made public that
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How to fix the problems facing RAAC
“The role of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC) is to locate, identify, capture and destroy the enemy, by day
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VALE Major Bill Burton, OAM, RAAC
Willam ’Bill’ Thomas Burton died in hospital in Cairns in the presence of his wife, Deidre, on 27 January 2026 In
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Dust collector move pt2
Moving a dust collector is no small task. Preparations for the move are dangerously dusty in themselves. The hardest, dustiest
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Incompatibility: 2 Cav Regt’s recon and close fire support roles
Stripping the tanks from 1 Armd Regt meant that 2 Cav Regt (Townsville) had to take on dual roles: close
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Why is it that the Armoured Corps has to continually justify itself?
“If we’re going to make a mistake, let’s only make half a one”. Commander, Australian Forces Vietnam (COMAFV), 1968
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Australia’s first Peregrine arrives
The first of four MC-55A Peregrines – Australia’s inaugural airborne intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and electronic warfare (ISREW) aircraft – has
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Preparing to move my dust collector
To progress my basement project, I’m upstairs preparing to move and re-build my dust-collection system. Reason being, the dust collector
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Trump’s latest ‘foot-in-mouth’ upsets all allies – Aussies included
The Returned & Services League of Australia categorically rejects the assertion by United States’ President Donald Trump that allied forces
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“The destruction of the Regiment weighs heavily on my heart …”
“The destruction of the Regiment weight heavily on my heart. The current-serving decision makers do not care about heritage, history
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Does 1st Armoured Regiment’s reputation matter?
“Why should it be of any importance whether it’s a tank regiment or an experimentation unit?”. Apart from the now
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SHOTS END TIMOR RAID – Diggers thwart enclave incursions
Following is a page-1 story from ARMY Newspaper published 3 February 2000By Corporal Brian Hartigan – now CONTACT Editor OECUSSI, JAN
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Fixing my forklift
Remember that red hand-operated forklift I bought a little while ago – the one that wouldn’t wheel with a load
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RNZAF training flight turns to real-life rescue
A training flight over the Hauraki Gulf turned into a real-life search and rescue operation for crew members of a
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What is 1st Armoured Regiment’s legacy to be for those who come after?
“A legacy: something left or handed down from the past; something with lasting impact for future generations.” It was almost taken
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RAAF slashes heritage fleet
Royal Australian Air Force will dispose of eight of its 19 heritage aircraft following a review of “technical and airworthiness
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DroneShield panelled for counter-drone solution
Australian company DroneShield has been selected as a supplier for the Australian Department of Defence’s (Defence) Project LAND 156’s Line
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