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The Royal Australian Air Force has welcomed its latest F-35A Lighting II and E-7A Wedgetail pilots, which have completed six-month operational conversion courses that wrapped up on Exercise Rogue Ambush 21, held from 15 June to 2 July.
Sir Richard is considered to be the “Father of the RAAF”, due to his role in advocating for the establishment of an Australian Air Force, run separately to Army and Navy, following WWI.
The iconic aircraft was transported by a US Air Force C-5 Galaxy, pictured above, which has a 70-metre wingspan and weighs more than 172,000kg empty.
Army’s Shadow 200 drones used their lasers to identify targets 9,000 feet in the air during recent exercise Dragon Sprint. The UAV is equipped with high resolution cameras and fed back information to Tiger helicopters and M777A2 Howitzers, which launched Hellfire missiles that the Shadows then guided onto their targets. This content is available exclusively
Aircraft security operations teams, mobile air load teams and communications elements from No. 95 and No. 96 Wings worked with No. 86 Wing aircraft and aircrew to develop procedures to strengthen interoperability between Air Mobility Group and Combat Support Group.
Since 2012, Quickstep has manufactured and supplied over 200 wing flaps for the RAAF’s C-130J Hercules fleet, on behalf of Lockheed Martin, and on 2 June, was welcomed to RAAF Base Richmond in order to understand how the fleet is operated and sustained in service.
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