iscoverRaytheon says it has successfully flight tested a new precision Small Tactical Munition (STM) designed specifically for use from UAVs. The STM is 60cm in length and weighs just 6kg, and features a dual mode semiactive laser seeker and GPS guidance system for use against fixed and mobile targets in all weather conditions. This content
The Army’s two CH-47D Chinooks of the Rotary Wing Group detachment based at Kandahar, Afghanistan, returned home on board two RAAF C-17 transports earlier this month. Since deploying earlier this year, the two Chinooks flew 737 hours over 860 sorties, and carried 4700 troops and 691,000kg of supplies and equipment in support of the International
A dispute over the awarding of the ADF’s Middle East Air Sustainment contract has been resolved, with Adagold Aviation entering into a two year contract with Defence on October 22. The contract was awarded following an investigation by the ADF’s Chief Audit Executive and an independent validation of the process by PricewaterhouseCoopers. It had been
The Ipswich Art Gallery will be dedicated to an exhibition of F-111 artefacts and memorabilia from late November to coincide with the retirement of the aircraft from RAAF service on December 3. The gallery says “stories of the crews, pilots and designers will feature alongside drawings, mementos and some rare photographs.” This content is available
US industry media is rife with speculation that the USAF will further delay its KC-X tanker replacement selection from November to sometime in the first quarter of 2011. Evaluation of the tenders from Boeing and EADS North America for the KC-767NG and A330 based KC-45 respectively reportedly is taking longer than expected, and the USAF
The Department of Defence has released images of the test dropping of a AGM-154C JSOW glide bomb from a RAAF F/A-18F Super Hornet last month. The weapon release was part of 1SQN’s first live weapon trials with the Super Hornet at the Woomera Test Range, north of Adelaide. Five Super Hornets and about 100 aircrew,
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