Category: Defence

Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare had credited Boeing with keeping production of rudder pedals for the F/A-18F Super Hornet in Australia after a previous Australian manufacturer – Production Parts – went into receivership. Under a new contract, Brisbane based Ferra Engineering will produce the remaining pedal kits previously contracted to Victorian company Production Parts,

The Royal Australian Air Force has received the third of its five Airbus Military KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport aircraft on order . The aircraft was the third of four converted from a commercial Airbus A330 airliner to the KC-30 tanker configuration by Qantas Defence Services at Brisbane Airport, and joins two others operated by

Boeing has delivered its first AH-64D Apache Block III attack helicopter to the US Army, under an initial US$247m contract signed last year covering eight aircraft. The new the AH-64D received enhanced 1500kW T700-701D engines, composite main rotor blades, a new split-torque face gear transmission, the modernised target acquisition detection system/pilot night vision system (MTADS/PNVS),

More than 60 members of an Australian Army helicopter unit returned home on November 3 after eight months in Afghanistan. The members of Rotary Wing Group Six operated a pair of CH-47D Chinook helicopters. They were attached to the US 101st Combat Aviation Brigade at Kandahar Airfield and flew throughout the southern provinces of Uruzgan,