Category: Defence

Australia is close to a deal to sell six C-130H Hercules airlifters to Indonesia, officials in that country have confirmed. The price tag for the aircraft, which the RAAF is retiring at the end of the year, was said to be roughly US$15 million each. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login

The RAAF’s newest and largest aircraft has made its debut in a multi-national exercise, flying out of RAAF Base Townsville as part of Exercise Pitch Black 12. The KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport, a heavily modified Airbus A330 airliner, has taken on light duties refuelling F/A-18 Hornet fighters as part of its run-up to initial operating

Boeing’s Unmanned Little Bird H-6U helicopter successfully performed 14 autonomous takeoffs and landings from a ship during test flights in July in another milestone for robot flight. The tests, conducted from a private ship off the coast of Florida, used a commercial off-the-shelf takeoff-and-landing system combined with Unmanned Little Bird’s automated flight control system. Two

Boeing has been awarded an $18 million US Army contract for Phase II of its Adaptive Vehicle Management System (AVMS) program, designed to improve helicopters’ manoeuvrability and performance. The advanced rotorcraft flight control system, a joint development project between Boeing and the Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD), reduces aircrew workload and overall operating costs,