The first Kaman SH-2G(I) Super Seasprite helicopter for the Royal New Zealand Navy has arrived by ship in Auckland, as this image Tweeted on Thursday by the NZ Chief of Navy shows. New Zealand is acquiring 10 Super Seasprites, designated SH-2G(I) – I for International – to replace its five older SH-2Gs currently in service (and which in turn
The RAAF is to shortly replace its Air Task Group (ATG) which is deployed to Al Minhad Air Base, UAE, from where it is has been taking part in anti-ISIL combat operations over Iraq as part of Operation Okra. Ahead of their return home to Australia some of the 400-personnel strong first Air Task Group were visited by Chief of
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is to send three F-16Cs of its Black Knights formation aerobatic display team to the Avalon Airshow. In the team’s Australian International Airshow debut, the Black Knights “will perform an exciting and highly memorable display”, the airshow organisers said on Monday, without providing further detail. This content is
The New Zealand government has announced it has sold five soon-to-be-retired RNZN SH-2G Super Seasprite helicopters to Peru. The aircraft were new-build machines which entered service with 3SQN in 2001 and 2003, and which are now in the process of being replaced by 10 SH-2G(I) Super Seasprites which were part of a former Australian order,
The RAAF has accepted the first two of 10 C-27J Spartan tactical airlifters onto the Commonwealth register, and commenced maintenance training on the aircraft at L-3’s facility at Waco in Texas on December 8, and aircrew training with instructors from L-3 Communications on December 15. The milestone is the latest in the RAAF’s effort to
Media reports in New Zealand have indicted the NZ Defence Force may be considering acquiring between two and four C-17s to replace its C-130H Hercules and Boeing 757 transports in service. First reported with little accompanying detail on Auckland’s Radio ZB on December 13, the story has spread across social media in the past week, particularly