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Strike Maintenance in the Middle East
25 August 2016
Keeping Australia’s advanced fighter planes in the air is a demanding and complex job at the best of times, but adding some Middle East Region heat into the mix,...
KC-30A successfully refuels multi-role F-16 Fight
22 August 2016
The operational capability of the Royal Australian Air Force’s KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport aircraft fleet has taken another important step forward with the...
Exercise Pitch Black 2016 wraps up in the Top End
19 August 2016
Air Force’s largest training activity for the year, Exercise Pitch Black 2016, has drawn to a close with a ceremony at RAAF Base Darwin to thank all of the...
Pitch Black White Ribbon Fun Run
8 August 2016Braving an unseasonably chilly Darwin morning, more than 65 RAAF personnel in Darwin raised awareness for White Ribbon Australia with a Fun Run on August 5.Held by Darwin...
Air Force Supports Indigenous Communities on Exercise Kummundoo 2016
5 August 2016
The Royal Australian Air Force is deploying to Western Australia on a mission to provide dental services to local Indigenous Communities on Exercise Kummundoo 2016....
ADF completes Exercise RIMPAC
5 August 2016
The Australian Defence Force achieved successful flight trials, missile launches and interoperability during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2016.
RIMPAC 16...
Power of five drives our future
28 July 2016
NEW light has been shed on the imminent 10-year strategy that will shape a world-class, fifth-generation Air Force.
CAF AIRMSHL Leo Davies (pictured) gave a preamble...
The ADF march in France on French National Day
14 July 2016
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) will today join its Anzac counterparts the New Zealand Defence Force in Paris to march with the French Armed Forces and other...
Air Show Spectacular to Celebrate Townsville's 150th Birthday
12 July 2016The Royal Australian Air Force has announced Townsville as the location for the 2016 Air Show. The RAAF will stage the major air show along The Strand on Saturday...
Practice makes perfect for French National Day Parade
12 July 2016
Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) personnel are in Paris for the French National Day Parade on 14 July 2016, and are in the midst of their rehearsals for the...
250,000 hours for Pacific Aerospace CT-4B Airtrainer at Australian Defence Force Basic Flying Training School
12 July 2016
The Australian Defence Force Basic Flying Training has celebrated 250,000 flying hours in the Pacific Aerospace CT-4B Airtrainer aircraft, a significant milestone for...
Australia's First F-35A Commanding Officer
11 July 2016
Australia’s first Commanding Officer (CO) of the F-35A, Wing Commander Darren Clare has had his first opportunity to see the F-35A up close at the Royal...
BAE Systems Australia operational maintenance delivery
4 July 2016
BAE Systems Australia took over operational maintenance of the Hawk 127 Lead-In Fighter on Friday, 1 July, in an extension of its contract for in-service support of the...
Exercise Angel Reign 2016 commences in Townsville
1 July 2016Exercise Angel Reign has wrapped up its first week of activity with an exercise to recover eight ‘isolated’ personnel in a training scenario on the Outer Reef in...
ADF exercises interoperability in major maritime exercise
30 June 2016
More than 1650 Australian Defence Force personnel have arrived in the United States ahead of a month of focused military training activities with 27 nations from across...
Exercise Angel Reign comes to Townsville
29 June 2016
Townsville will be hosting the Royal Australian Air Force, Australian Army, civilian agencies and international participants from the United States of America in the...
Big bird has landed in South Sudan
28 June 2016
On 23 May 2016, after months of planning, a Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster III, from Amberley-based No. 36 Squadron, touched down in Juba, South Sudan for...
F-35 Software Runs Smoothly During Mountain Home Deployment
22 June 2016 WASHINGTON — Software glitches have plagued the F-35 in recent months, but operators said they noticed a marked improvement during a June deployment where the...
Australia's voice loud and clear in the global F-35 test team
22 June 2016Two Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) members on posting to the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Operational Test Team (JOTT) located at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) in the...
Repatriation at RAAF Base Richmond
6 June 2016
WITH heavy hearts, families of 33 Australian personnel and dependants watched their loved ones return to Australian soil for the first time in 50 years on June 2.
As...
RAAF Base East Sale Consultation
27 April 2016
Community Drop-In Information Session RAAF Base East Sale 2035 ANEF
The Department of Defence is preparing an Australian Noise Exposure Forecast (ANEF) for RAAF Base...
Lest we forget
22 April 2016
Anzac Day goes beyond the anniversary of the landing on Gallipoli in 1915. It is the day on which we remember all Australians who served and died in war and on...
Air Show spectacular to Celebrate Townsville's 150th Birthday
20 April 2016The Royal Australian Air Force has announced Townsville as the location for the 2016 Air Show. The RAAF will stage the major air show along The Strand on Saturday...
Heron makes history
14 April 2016
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has made history by flying the Heron Remotely Piloted Unmanned Aircraft System out of RAAF Base Amberley. This was the first time...
Air Task Group Wedgetail Achieves 100 Mission Success Rate in the Middle East
11 April 2016
The Australian Air Task Group E-7A Wedgetail command and control aircraft has achieved a record 100% mission success rate in Coalition operations against Daesh in the...
