Category: Defence

The RAAF is closer to commencing Super Hornet maintenance training in Australia with the delivery of a Visual Environment Maintenance Trainer to the aircraft’s home base at RAAF Amberley. The trainer is a Super Hornet cockpit simulator which provides maintenance students with touch screens on which to perform representative diagnostics and functional checks, and will

A former RAAF 707 tanker has been broken up at RAAF Richmond is preparation for its cockpit and forward fuselage to be restored for display at the RAAF Museum at Point Cook near Melbourne. The restoration is being undertaken by Omega Air International as part of an agreement to return three other former RAAF 707s

The USAF has confirmed reports that it is operating a previously unknown reconnaissance UAV out of Kandahar airfield in Afghanistan. The aircraft, designated the RQ-170 Sentinel, was photographed earlier this year and again in early November, and is believed to have been designed and built by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works. The latest photographs of the

BAE Systems Australia has been awarded a contract to upgrade the Australian Army’s Advanced Air Defence Simulator (AADS). The $5 million contract will see the facility, located at the 16th Air Defence Regiment’s facility at Woodside near Adelaide, equipped with new projectors, upgraded computers and software, and other enhancements under Project Land 19 Phase 2B.