Royal Australian Air Force personnel have deployed to Nevada with an E-7A Wedgetail AEW&C platform and a C-130J Hercules tactical airlifter for the Red Flag 17-1 exercise. Alongside counterparts from the US and the UK, about RAAF 200 personnel will support and participate in missions involving up to 100 aircraft, flying over 31,000 square kilometres
No fewer than six centre fuselage sections for the RAAF’s next batch of F-35A Joint Strike Fighters are currently in production at Northrop Grumman’s F-35 Integrated Assembly Line (IAL) at Palmdale, California. The fuselage sections are for six of the RAAF’s next eight F-35As, which are scheduled for delivery in 2018, after the first two
The US Marine Corps (USMC) will deploy its largest helicopter and tiltrotor element to northern Australia yet when its next six-monthly rotation to Darwin gets underway in April. The sixth rotation since deployments to Australia were first announced on November 16 2011, the aviation combat element of 13 helicopters and 1,250 personal of the Marine Rotational Force
Northrop Grumman Australia is planning to double in size over the next few years as it bids for new defence acquisition programs and prepares to support the MQ-4C Triton unmanned surveillance aircraft and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as they enter RAAF service. “Our forecasts are pretty aggressive, we should double our size in the next
Quickstep Holdings says it achieved an 85 per cent increase in delivered parts for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project in the three months to December 31 2016, with production expected to further ramp up in the period ahead. The Australian manufacturer said it delivered 263 parts for the F-35 program in the second quarter
Northrop Grumman Integrated Defence Services, an Australian subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation, has signed separate agreements with Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance (AFI KLM E&M) and Lufthansa Technik for the provision of services in support of the KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT). AFI KLM E&M will provide services including aircraft component, auxiliary
