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Exercise Elang AUSINDO 23 will see 150 RAAF personnel training alongside 160 of their Indonesian counterparts, planning and undertaking offensive and defensive counter air missions, basic fighter and air combat manoeuvres, as well as air-to-air refuelling with a RAAF KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport.
The move is hugely significant for Australia, with the first delivery of the uncrewed aircraft set for next year and an inaugural flight imminent.
The sixth-generation bomber is currently undertaking engine testing in California that has been described as an “essential milestone” on the path to an eventual first flight.
The apprentices, who have graduated from Aviation Australia’s (AA) 80-day Certificate II in Aircraft Line Maintenance, will join BDA’s F/A-18F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler maintenance program at RAAF Base Amberley.
The in-cockpit footage was taken from a display at the Gold Coast Pacific Airshow last month and has already clocked up more than more than 300,000 views.
In total, six of the aircraft type will take part in Exercise Bushido Guardian 23 at Komatsu Air Base, halfway between Kanazawa and Fukui City, in the country’s centre.
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