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Chief of Joint Capabilities Lieutenant General John Frewen, right, with the winning ADF team in the capture-the-flag competition at the 2022 Cyber Skills Challenge. Photo by Corporal Olivia Cameron.

ADF team takes out Cyber Skills Challenge

23/12/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 895 Views 0 Comments ADF, ADF Cyber Skills Challenge

Record numbers of cyber enthusiasts participated in this year’s ADF Cyber Skills Challenge, held at the QT Hotel in Canberra

About 350 Afghan officer cadets graduated on 20 July after completing an intensive 11-month training course supported by New Zealand Defence, Australian, Danish and British mentors. Photographer unknown.

ADF Australian New Zealand News Operations Overseas Videos

New Army officers graduate in Afghanistan – 2 headed for Duntroon

21/07/201728/07/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5242 Views 0 Comments ADF, Afghan officer cadets, New Zealand Defence Force, NZDF

About 350 Afghan officer cadets graduated yesterday, 20 July 2017, after completing an intensive 11-month training course supported by Australian

Corporal Matthew Molloy (left) and Corporal Doug Coombs from 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry) examine a Wasp unmanned aerial system. While the UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) is one-man portable, the UAS (system) has a bit more weight to it. Photo by Sergeant Janine Fabre.

Australian News Science & Technology

ADF buys Wasp UAS

01/06/201707/06/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 9609 Views 5 Comments ADF, AeroVironment, WASP AE, XTEK

The Australian Defence Force has just acquired a new unmanned aerial surveillance and reconnaissance capability that will give our soldiers extra sting on

CONTACT Shop

Little booklet does big business

15/12/201530/10/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3868 Views 2 Comments ADF, viewee twoee, weapons

A little booklet we published this past weekend has done big things for the CONTACT brand with overwhelming support for the concept and awesome

Task Group handover parade. Photo by Captain Bradley Richardson

Australian News Operations

Task Group Taji Rotation 2 takes point

05/12/2015 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4481 Views 0 Comments ADF, Daesh, NZDF, Taji

Task Group Taji Rotation 2 formally took point on responsibility for training Iraqi security forces when Australian and New Zealand personnel

An Australian F/A-18A Hornet relelases a flare at sunset in the skies over Iraq. RAAF photo.

Australian News Operations

Australia set to bomb Syrian targets

09/09/201513/10/2015 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4752 Views 0 Comments ADF, Iraq, Operation Okra, RAAF, Syria

The Australian government today announced that it had decided to extend Australia’s air strikes against Daesh allowing the RAAF to bomb Syrian

Australian Army trainer Corporal Benjamin Wallis demonstrates how to carry an injured soldier correctly on battlefield during a first aid lesson at the Taji Military Complex, Iraq. Photo by Corporal Oliver Carter.

Australian News Operations

ANZAC trainers still doing it in Iraq

09/09/201512/10/2015 Posted by Brian Hartigan 6147 Views 0 Comments ADF, Daesh, Iraq, Training

Australian and New Zealand trainers continue to provide instructional support to an Iraqi Army NCO Academy designed to enhance the skills

Australian News Operations Royal Australian Navy

Drug-haul frigate coming home after Middle East mission

09/09/201512/10/2015 Editorial 3265 Views 0 Comments ADF, Australian, Royal Australian Navy

Guided Missile Frigate returns after a highly successful deployment to the Middle East, where she seized a massive illegal drug

A United States Navy surgical team perform cleft-palate surgery on a two-year-old boy from Bougainville onboard hospital ship USNS Mercy during Pacific Partnership 2015. Photo by Able Seaman Chantell Brown

Australian News Overseas

Exercise Pacific Partnership 2015 completed

07/09/201512/10/2015 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3493 Views 0 Comments ADF, Pacific Partnership, US Navy

The Australian Defence Force has completed its involvement in Exercise Pacific Partnership 2015, an annual United States-led humanitarian and civic

Australian News Operations Royal Australian Air Force

ADF delivered humanitarian aid to flood-stricken Burma

12/08/201512/10/2015 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4796 Views 0 Comments ADF, Myanmar, Myanmar floods, RAAF

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFaT) delivered crucial humanitarian aid to flood-stricken Burma on

An assault amphibious vehicle, assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, transits toward Gold Beach for an amphibious assault during Talisman Sabre 2015 at Fog Bay, Australia, July 11, 2015. US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Daniel M. Young

Australian News

Last chance to see TS military action

23/07/201512/10/2015 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3693 Views 0 Comments ADF, Talisman Sabre, USMC

Darwin residents can have one last chance to see TS military action on their local coastline as the US military machinery

Sergeant Sandy McInerney pays proper military respects to her boss.

Feature Articles

THE BOSS’ DRIVER

12/07/201512/10/2015 Posted by Brian Hartigan 8813 Views 6 Comments ADF, Driver

Sergeant Sandra ‘Sandy’ McInerney OAM was the first female ever appointed driver to the highest-ranking officer in the land –