Defence has finally signed a $86.6 million, six year Interim Basic Flying Training (IBFT) contract with BAE Systems to continue to provide basic pilot training at Tamworth from January next year. “Under the contract, BAE Systems will continue to provide basic flying training at Tamworth using the CT-4B Airtrainer aircraft, upgraded to meet contemporary crashworthiness
An ADF Heron Remotely Piloted Aircraft Detachment (HRPAD) has set a unit record for monthly flying hours, while deployed on operations to Kandahar, Afghanistan, in April. The fourth rotation (ROT 4) of personnel from HRPAD took out the honours, after clocking 475 hours while flying the aircraft on various intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions.
Six RAAF F/A-18F Super Hornets have arrived in Malaysia to take part in Exercise Bersama Lima, the first time Australian Super Hornets have deployed overseas since entering service in March last year. The Australian participation in Bersama Shield 2011 comprises the six Super Hornets from 1 Squadron, plus ANZAC frigates HMA Ships Ballarat and Parramatta,
Sikorsky has celebrated the production of 100 MH-60R and 200 MH-60S Seahawk helicopters for the US Navy, with both types having accrued a combined total of 460,000 flight hours in the service. Designed to replace the CH-46D, UH-3H, HH-1N and HH-60H helicopters in service, the MH-60S ‘Knighthawk’ entered service in 2002 and has flown more
Defence Materiel Minister Jason Clare has announced the completion of a “full diagnostic review” into the troubled MRH 90 Multi-Role Helicopter program being acquired under Phases 2, 4 and 6 of the Air 9000 project, recommending that the program not be added to the Project of Concern list at this time. Chaired by Defence
BAE Systems has announced the completion of System Acceptance Testing (SAT) for the Army’s Advanced Air Defence Simulator (AADS) Refresh project, fulfilling a $5 million contract issued by the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) in 2009. The project saw BAE replace obsolete simulator dome projectors, computers and software with the latest equipment and programs to produce
