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A RAAF P-8A Poseidon supports sea trials for NUSHIP (now HMAS) Hobart in the Gulf St Vincent off the coast of Adelaide. Photo by Corporal Craig Barrett.

What we don’t know about P-8A Poseidon is somehow comforting

06/01/202106/01/2021 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3962 Views 1 Comment

The government recently announced that it was buying two extra P-8A Poseidon long-range, armed, maritime search, reconnaissance (and attack) aircraft

An E-7A Wedgetail at Australia's main air operating base in the Middle East. Photo by Corporal David Cotton.

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“Defence News” – a new oxymoron / Wedgetail’s 50-day flight from Middle East

29/10/202003/11/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3510 Views 0 Comments

ADF reported on 29 Oct that an “E-7A Wedgetail and support personnel have [present tense] returned to Australia”. They left 50 days ago!

Detachment Commander Squadron Leader Kevin Lee oversees the removal of communications equipment at Camp McNamara in the Middle East before the Aussie base is handed back to the US Air Force. Photo by Corporal Tristan Kennedy.

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RAAF returns Middle East air base to USAF

28/10/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2532 Views 1 Comment

The former home of the ADF’s air operations in the Middle East has been handed over to the United States Air Force.

Royal Australian Air Force Air Refuelling Operator, Flight Lieutenant Ingrid Van Der Vlist, with the KC-30A MRTT. Photo by Corporal Jesse Kane.

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Meet the RAAFie with five wings

28/09/202027/10/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 10640 Views 12 Comments

One current-serving Royal Australian Air Force woman recently earned her third aircrew badge making for a seven-wing career (so far?).

Republic of Singapore Air Force personnel work on RAAF Base Darwin's flightline during Exercise Pitch Black 2014. Photo by Corporal David Said.

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Singapore AF arriving in Darwin ahead of NT exercises

10/09/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3102 Views 0 Comments

Republic of Singapore Air Force fighters will soonn arrive in Darwin ahead of air combat exercises in the Northern Territory next month.

Members of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces deploying as part of the next rotation the United Nations Assistance Mission – Iraq take their seats on a Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster III in preparation for take-off. Photo by Captain Krystelle Jones.

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RAAF airlifts Fijians to Middle East

12/03/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3041 Views 0 Comments

Australia’s relationship with Fiji has strengthened with two sustainment missions for 2020 transporting Fijian peacekeepers to the Middle East in March.

Five KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport aircraft from No 33 Squadron on taxiway Alpha at RAAF Base Amberley. Photo by Sergeant Peter Borys.

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KC-30As ‘elephant walk’ at Amberley

29/11/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2650 Views 0 Comments

On 15 November 2019, No. 33 Squadron prepared five of its KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transports for launch at the same

KC-30A MRTT and E-7A Wedgetail conduct Air to Air refuelling testing in the airspace near RAAF Williamtown.

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Australia increases commitment to Iraq/Syria

04/07/201904/07/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2871 Views 0 Comments

Australia will continue – and increase – its current contribution to support efforts by the US-led Global Coalition against Daesh

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Australian Space Agency partners with Airbus

27/09/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2310 Views 0 Comments Australian Space Agency

The Australian Space Agency (ASA) today signed a statement of strategic intent with European manufacturing giant Airbus, representing a significant

A Royal Australian Air Force air refuelling officer on the flight deck of a KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport controls refuelling operations for a Dassault Rafale M from the French during an Operation Okra mission over the Middle East. Photo by Corporal David Cotton.

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KC-30A offloads 100,000,000th pound of fuel

11/08/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3039 Views 0 Comments KC-30A MRTT

RAAF’s KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport recently delivered its 100,000,000th – yes, that’s 100millionth – pound of fuel during air-to-air

An emulation of what the image processing system 'sees' during the first automatic contact between an A310 MRTT demonstrator and a RAAF KC-30A. Airbus photo.

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World first automatic air-to-air refeuling system test

12/07/201812/07/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3463 Views 0 Comments A330 MRTT, A3R, KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport

Airbus Defence and Space has successfully demonstrated an automatic air-to-air refuelling (A3R) between two multi-role tanker transports. CAPTION: An emulation of