02/21/2016: The Royal Australian Air Force has deployed a contingent of approximately 200 personnel to Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada for Exercise Red Flag 17-1, taking place from 23 January to 10 February 2017. Conducted by the United States Air Force, the exercise also involves participants from the United Kingdom,…
11/17/2016: The Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP, Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, the Hon Peter Dutton MP, Chief of Air Force, Air Marshal Leo Davies AO, CSC and President Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific of Boeing,…
09/15/2016: In this video the Tiger Army helo is seen being transported by the RAAF C-17s to the Northern Shield Exercise which has just recently concluded. Exercise Northern Shield 2016 (NS16) is a recently concluded Australian Defence Force (ADF) training activity where high-readiness forces deploy quickly to remote locations in Australia…
07/15/2016: Royal Australian and United States Air Force personnel are conducting military search and rescue training off the coast of Townsville as part of Exercise Angel Reign 16. The scenarios have seen a number of people rescued from life rafts in the Coral Sea with United States pararescuemen winching them to…
06/11/2016: HMAS Adelaide participated in Exercise Sea Explorer 2016 (EX SE16) from 25 May – 05 June off the coast of North Queensland as part of the certification process to determine its readiness to conduct amphibious operations. The second Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) to be commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy…
05/03/2016: As Air Commodore Heap, head of the Surveillance Response Group, noted in an interview with Second Line of Defense in March 2016: “We are small but we want to be capable of being a little Tasmanian Devil that you don’t want to play with because if you come at…
02/17/2015: Royal Australian Air Force Combat Controllers from the 4th Squadron prepare to jump from an RAAF 37th Squadron C-130J during Exercise COPE NORTH 2016, February 11, 2016. Exercise COPE NORTH 16 includes 22 total flying units and nearly 3,000 personnel from six countries and continues the growth of strong, interoperable,…
02/17/2016: Exercise Red Flag 16-1 is an air combat training exercise which centers on the large force employment of aircraft in a high-end warfighting environment. RF16-1 was conducted from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, United States, from 25 January to 12 February 2016. The aircraft which participated in the Nevada…
