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At The Pointy End Of The Raaf’s Participation In K95 Were 10 F/a-18s From 75 Squadron. Like The F-111s, Much Of The Hornet’s Operations Were Ground Attack Missions In Support Of The Army, Although As The Exercise Went On Progressively More Time Was Spent On Intercept Missions Of Orangeland’s Elliot Fighters (learjets). Initially The Exercise’s Rules Of Engagement Meant That The Hornets Would Intercept And Visually Identify Orangeland Aircraft Which Had Penetrated Australian Airspace. Only Later Were They Cleared To ‘shoot’ Them Down. Other Missions Included Escort Of Paradrops, Combat Sar, Maritime Strike And Naval Air Defence.
Kangaroo 95 Exercise Repor
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Kangaroo 95 — Orange Incursions Repelled
Kangaroo 95, Australia’s largest ever military exercise has been fought and won, with the ADF’s capabilities tested in a range of scenarios across Australia’s top end.
The triennial Kangaroo exercise is the ADF’s primary multi service and multinational exercise, and this year’s was the largest ever involving 17,000 ADF personnel and 2,000 from overseas. The exercise area covered some 40,000 sq km from Derby in the west to Cairns in the east, with operations lasting for four weeks during August.
This year’s scenario envisioned a low level conflict between Australia and its allies, Blue Force, and Orange Force, 1,800 or so personnel from the mythical nation of Orangeland — a fictitious chain of islands across Australia’s northern coast. Orangeland mounted a series of low level incursions against towns, resource installations and defence bases as part of its campaign to stretch the ADF to its limits, and to try and gain support for its causes from the Australian public. This was in response to its failure to secure fair and equitable mineral resource access from the ‘imperialistic and militaristic Australians’.
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