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Author: Posted by Brian Hartigan

Artist's impression of Ghost Shark under water.
News Royal Australian Navy Sovereign industry 

Ghost Shark program on fast track

05/08/202406/08/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2246 Views 0 Comments Ghost Shark

Production of the Ghost Shark program will be accelerated with Defence and Anduril Australia entering into a co-funded early works

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Australian News Sovereign industry 

Defence Digital Engineering Strategy

05/08/202406/08/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1701 Views 0 Comments Defence Digital Engineering Strategy

Defence is transforming how it works with businesses through the launch of the Defence Digital Engineering Strategy to speed up

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Editor's Vlog 

Make and install a bathroom safety rail

03/08/202403/08/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1492 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

A safety rail wasn’t on my to-do list. But, with the bathroom in full use by the client (my 30-something

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News Royal Australian Air Force 

Royal Australian Air Force officially unveils first MQ-4C Triton

01/08/202401/08/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2080 Views 0 Comments MC-4C Triton

Representatives of the Australian government, the Royal Australian Air Force and Northrop Grumman officially unveiled the RAAF’s first MQ-4C Triton

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US Navy and Royal Australian Navy graduates from the US Navay's Basic Enlisted Submarine School, aboard the US Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut. US Navy photo by Lauren Laughlin.
News Royal Australian Navy USA 

First Australian sailors graduate from USN Basic Enlisted Submarine School

31/07/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1951 Views 0 Comments AUKUS

In a first for AUKUS, a group of Royal Australian Navy enlisted sailors has graduated from the United States Navy’s

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Collins-class submarines HMA Ships Collins, Farncomb, Dechaineux and Sheean in formation while transiting through Cockburn Sound, Western Australia. Story by Warrant Officer Class Two Max Bree. Photo by Lieutenant Chris Prescott.
News Royal Australian Navy 

$2.2billion Collins-class sustainment contract awarded

29/07/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1492 Views 0 Comments Collins-class submarines

The government has signed a new four-year sustainment contract with ASC Pty Ltd for the sustainment of the Collins-class submarines.

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An Exercise Pitch Black multi-national formation with French Air and Space Force Rafale B; Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) F-16C Fighting Falcon; Italian Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon; and RSAF F-15SG Eagle. Photo by Flying Officer Ben Dunleavy.
News Rest of World Royal Australian Air Force 

Italian fighter jet crashes in NT outback

24/07/202425/07/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3950 Views 0 Comments Exercise Pitch Black

A Eurofighter Typhoon F-2000 from the Italian air force crashed in remote bushland in the Northern Territory while participating in

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Concept design of Army's new Landing Craft Medium.
Australian Army News Sovereign industry 

Building Army’s fleet of medium landing craft begins

24/07/202431/07/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3285 Views 2 Comments medium landing craft

The build of 18 medium landing craft for the Army’s new littoral fleet has been accelerated according to the current

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HMAS Sydney fires Royal Australian Navy’s first Naval Strike Missile during a SINKEX off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii,as a part of Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024. Photo by Leading Seaman Daniel Goodman.
News Royal Australian Navy USA Videos 

HMAS Sydney’s new missile fire a major milestone

22/07/202422/08/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2697 Views 0 Comments Naval Strike Missile, RIMPAC

Hobart-class destroyer HMAS Sydney has conducted a successful firing of the Naval Strike Missile, Navy’s replacement for the ageing Harpoon

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Military working dog 'Kuga' in Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan, Afghanistan. SOTG photo.
Australian Veterans 

Remembering SAS hero dog Kuga

17/07/202421/07/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3481 Views 0 Comments Military Working Dogs

Belgian Mallinois Kuga saved lives in Afghanistan but paid the ultimate price, succumbing to war wounds on 24 July 2012.

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Australian Government-donated Bushmaster protected mobility vehicles bound for Ukraine at RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland, in April 2022. Photo by Corporal Jesse Kane.
News Sovereign industry 

15 new Bushmasters ordered for HIMARS regiment

16/07/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2377 Views 2 Comments Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicles

The Australian government has ordered 15 new Bushmaster protected mobility vehicles under a $45 million contract with Bendigo-based Thales. FILE

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RAAF armament technicians prepare a guided bomb unit (GBU-32) for use by the Air Task Group in the Middle East region. Photo by Corporal Ben Dempster.
Australian Europe News 

Australia’s largest single military assistance package for Ukraine

12/07/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1934 Views 5 Comments Ukraine

Australia continues its steadfast support for Ukraine with the announcement of its largest single military assistance package to date, worth

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Editor's Vlog 

Futureproofing our house access

11/07/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 872 Views 0 Comments

Both retired – getting older – knees stiffening – and two steps up to our front door that really don’t

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Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare, or AM) Eurofighter Typhoons taxi at RAAF Base Darwin, followed by an AM KC-767A tanker transport, on arrival for Exercise Pitch Black 24. Photo by Flight Lieutenant Claire Campbell.
News Rest of World Royal Australian Air Force 

Exercise Pitch Black 24 – biggest ever

11/07/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2115 Views 1 Comment Exercise Pitch Black

Australia’s biggest international air combat training activity – Exercise Pitch Black – will begin tomorrow, 12 July and run until

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Asia News Royal Australian Air Force 

RAAF Base Pearce welcomes Republic of Singapore Air Force contingent

10/07/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2091 Views 0 Comments Republic of Singapore Air Force

Royal Australian Air Force is hosting an extended fighter-aircraft detachment from the Republic of Singapore Air Force over the period

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Editor's Vlog 

Meet Mr fan Tastic

09/07/202409/07/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1092 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

Rosie bought one of those fancy all-in-one bathroom extractor/light/heater thingies like the one I installed in the bathroom downstairs –

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Outgoing Chief of Defence Force General Angus Campbell at the Change of Command Ceremony for the Chief of Joint Capabilities at Russell Office, Canberra. Photo by Rodney Braithwaite.
ADF News 

Senate to investigate process of awarding medals in Defence

06/07/202409/07/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3952 Views 10 Comments

The Senate has approved a motion to launch an investigation into the process of awarding medals in Defence – including

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Editor's Vlog 

Meet Mr fan Tastic

06/07/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 866 Views 0 Comments Make-n-Do

Rosie bought one of those fancy all-in-one bathroom extractor/light/heater thingies like the one I installed in the bathroom downstairs –

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News Veterans 

New veterans’ entitlements legislation now law

03/07/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2714 Views 1 Comment

The federal government is simplifying and harmonising Australia’s veterans’ rehabilitation and compensation system – with new legislation introduced today. Under

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A Bushmaster protected mobility vehicle bound for the Republic of Fiji Military Forces is loaded onto HMAS Choules in Brisbane, Queensland. Photo by Able Seaman Lucinda Allanson.
News Pacific Royal Australian Navy Videos 

Choules in Pacific – delivers Bushmasters to Fiji

30/06/202421/07/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3150 Views 0 Comments Bushmaster, Fiji, HMAS Choules, Tonga

HMAS Choules has delivered 14 Bushmaster protected mobility vehicles to Fiji as part of a month-long deployment in the South

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