Lockheed Martin has delivered the 79th and final C-5 Galaxy airlifter to undergo a first phase of upgrades under a two-stage modernisation program. The Avionics Modernization Program (AMP), as the first phase of upgrades is known, incorporates a mission computer, a glass cockpit with digital avionics, an autopilot system, and updated communications, navigation and surveillance
An F-35A has completed the Joint Strike Fighter program’s first inflight refuelling while configured with external weapons. The April 21 flight from Edwards Air Force base saw F-35A AF-4 refuel from a KC-10 tanker while carrying two inert AIM-9X missiles externally and two JDAM guided bombs and AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles internally. “The two-hour mission tested
The ADF has deployed 12 aircraft and two naval vessels to participate in Exercise Bersama Shield 2012 in southeast Asia. The exercise marks the 41st anniversary of the Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA), a series of bilateral agreements between the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Malayisa and Singapore. This year’s exercise, set to run through
A former RAN TA-4G Skyhawk is returning to Australia nearly 20 years after it was sold to New Zealand, and will take up its new home at the Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum. The McDonnell Douglas built aircraft, serial No. N13-154911, served with the RAN’s No. 724 SQN from 1967 until 1984, when it was
An RAAF KC-30A has set a new ADF record by carrying 220 passengers and 14 crew, the largest number of people ever to take off on a single RAAF flight. The aircraft, belonging to 33SSQN, carried passengers from the Australian Defence Force Academy on a two hour flight from the Defence Establishment Fairbairn, Canberra last
Two aircraft carrier-variant F-35C Joint Strike Fighters have flown together for the first time. The test aircraft, CF-1 and CF-2, flew in formation for more than an hour after taking off from Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, Lockheed Martin says. Three versions of the F-35 are being produced for the US military: the
