Category: RAAF

An RAAF KC-30A tanker-transport has refuelled an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter for the first time. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username or Email Password Forgot password? Keep me signed in on this device. If you check this

The governments of Norway and Australia have formalised their agreement for Australia to participate in the development of the Joint Strike Missile for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The Joint Strike Missile – JSM – is being developed by Norway’s Kongsberg Defence Systems as a long-range maritime strike missile that can be carried in the

The Australian Air Task Group (ATG) has completed its first operational mission in Syria. No weapons were released during the mission, which provided “on-call interdiction and dynamic targeting support”, according to Defence. The two Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18A Hornets, a E-7A Wedgetail AEW&C platform and a KC-30A tanker transport that were involved in the

The federal government has decided to extend into eastern Syria airstrikes against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets carried out by Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) aircraft. “This marks the next phase of Australia’s contribution to the international coalition effort to disrupt, degrade and ultimately defeat the Daesh [ISIL] death cult,” Prime