Flying in the three-week long Exercise Pitch Black 14 began on Monday. The biennial exercise is the RAAF’s largest, and this year sees participation from 110 aircraft and 2,300 personnel from Australia, the US, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and France operating from RAAF Bases Darwin and Tindal.
Some 110 aircraft and 2,300 personnel from Australia, the US, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and France are due to take part in Exerise Pitch Black 14, which began on Friday. The three-week long exercise will see participants conducting offensive counter air and defensive counter air missions from RAAF Bases Darwin and
A 725SQN MH-60R ‘Romeo’ helicopter has fired a Hellfire missile, the first time a RAN aircraft has fired a guided missile since the demise of the Fleet Air Arm’s fixed wing flying in the early 1980s. The missile was fired on July 25 by one of two 725SQN MH-60Rs currently deployed to the US Navy’s
Chief of Air Force Air Marshal Geoff Brown has told the rollout ceremony of the first RAAF F-35 that the aircraft represents the “greatest evolutionary change” in Australian military aviation history. The first of a planned fleet of 72 F-35A Lightnings was revealed to dignitaries and invited guests at a “rollout celebration” at Lockheed Martin’s
Lockheed Martin has previewed the second F-35A for the RAAF a day ahead of a formal rollout of Australia’s first aircraft in a ceremony, which took place at the company’s Fort Worth facility on Thursday. The second jet, AU-2, was previewed to media on Wednesday ahead of the formal rollout of aircraft AU-1, and wears the
Development of the Finmeccanica-Alenia Aermacchi MC-27J ‘Praetorian’ gunship under the lead of ATK is progressing, with the prototype recently completing a first phase of ground and light tests at Eglin AFB in Florida. The MC-27J utilises a roll on-roll off palletised gun and mission control package for gunship missions, and retains an integral L-3 Wescam
