French Dassault Rafales, Indian Sukhoi Su-30s and Thai Saab Gripens are among the foreign aircraft to have deployed to the Northern Territory for the Royal Australian Air Force’s major multinational large-force employment exercise Pitch Black, which kicked off on Friday. The 2018 edition of Exercise Pitch Black features up to 4,000 personnel and up to
Report examines why Australia has yet to graduate a female fighter jet pilot In almost a quarter century since the Australian Defence Force fully opened the cockpit door, women have piloted C-130s, C-17s and Black Hawk helicopters and more. But they have yet to crack the big one, to become fully qualified fast jet pilots.
The first two aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) aerobatic display team have arrived in Australia. The pair of Pilatus PC-21s, with registration HB-HWS and HB-HWT, landed in Darwin on Saturday July 21 from Kupang in Indonesia, as these photographs from Sid Mitchell showed. On Sunday, the PC-21s flew from Darwin to Adelaide
The first automatic air-to-air refuelling (A3R) contact between two large aircraft was successfully completed on June 20 by an Airbus A310 MRTT test aircraft and an RAAF KC-30A MRTT off the coast of Spain. Seven successful contacts were made between the two aircraft. The successful development follows a successful test earlier in 2018 where the
UMS SKELDAR has launched the V-200B unmanned aerial system (UAS) at the Farnborough Airshow, adding extra endurance, new engine management and payload capabilities to its existing V-200. The update to the mid-sized heavy fuel VTOL V-200 was announced at Farnborough on July 16. The V-200B retains the primary maritime focus of the system. “It is
The average price of the F-35A conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) variant should drop below US$90m (A$121m) for the first time, according to a media report.
