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Author: Posted by Brian Hartigan

NZDF personnel in the UK training Ukrainian soldiers in support of Ukraine’s self-defence. NZDF photo.
Europe New Zealand News 

New Zealand expanding Ukraine military assistance package

15/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2826 Views 1 Comment Ukraine

New Zealand Defence Force deployments to the United Kingdom and Europe in support of Ukraine’s self-defence will continue into 2023.

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Australian Army Sergeant Tarese Heath (operating ventilator) and US colleagues transfer a wounded patient from a medical evacuation helicopter to the Emergency Department of the Air Force Theater Hospital at Balad, Iraq. Photo by Major Patricia Anderson, US Army.
Poets Corner 

Space Age Angels

14/11/202214/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1650 Views 0 Comments By George Mansford

You ask this old soldier where I’ve been Oh, to see the space age medics and their teams So many

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Placing a poppy on the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial. Photo by Corporal Nunu Campos.
Poets Corner 

DO WE REALLY HONOUR OUR PAST?

14/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1488 Views 0 Comments By George Mansford

Stand tall and proud for all those yesterdays When our flag of unity was first flown to lead the way

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Pacific leaders visit the humanitarian and disaster-relief warehouse at Blackrock Camp, during the Joint Heads of Pacific Security Meeting 2022, in Fiji. Photo by Allan Stephen.
Australian News Pacific 

25-nation Pacific security leaders meeting

13/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1916 Views 0 Comments

Pacific security leaders from 25 countries have visited Nadi, Fiji, for the fourth Joint Heads of Pacific Security (JHOPS) meeting

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Life on the Line Podcast 

Adrian Clunies-Ross – Life on the Line

13/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2255 Views 0 Comments Life on the Line Podcast

Thomas Kaye interviews career army man and Vietnam veteran Adrian Clunies-Ross. Thomas spoke with Adrian at his home in Canberra.

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A headstone of an unknown Australian soldier. Photo by Corporal Jake Sims.
Australian News Veterans 

Three more WWI soldiers identified

13/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2681 Views 2 Comments

Three Australian soldiers of the First World War have been formally identified more than 105 years since they were killed

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A Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130H flys over RNZAF Base Ohakea during Tactical Exercise 22. RNZAF photo.
Asia New Zealand News 

Kiwi and Singapore Herc crews conduct low-flying nav ex

06/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2131 Views 0 Comments Republic of Singapore Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force

The Royal New Zealand Air Force is conducting Tactical Exercise 22 (TACEX 22) from RNZAF Base Ohakea in the Manawatū

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A Sikorsky S-70 Black Hawk flies without pilots. Sikorsky photo.
News Science & Technology USA Videos 

Black Hawk flies without pilots

05/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2835 Views 0 Comments Black Hawk, DARPA, Sikorsky

Sitting on the runway in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, one of Sikorsky’s pilots in an S-70 Black Hawk helicopter flips the

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ADV Cape Naturaliste. Austal photo.
News Royal Australian Navy 

Third evolved Cape-class patrol boat delivered

05/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2722 Views 0 Comments Cape-class Patrol Boat

Austal announced yesterday that it had delivered the third of eight evolved Cape-class patrol boats (ECCPB’s) to the Royal Australian

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Republic of Korea Air Force KF-16U Fighting Falcon and Royal Australian Air Force F-35A Lightning II conduct a flight together during Exercise Pitch Black 2022. ROKAF photo.
Asia News Royal Australian Air Force 

RAAF and ROKAF sign in-air refuelling coop agreement

03/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2617 Views 0 Comments Republic of Korea Air Force

The Royal Australian Air Force and the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) have signed an arrangement formalising their cooperation

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Joint Strike fighter A35-11 departs for a night sortie from RAAF Base Williamtown. Photo by Corporal Craig Barrett.
Australian News Royal Australian Air Force 

Government pays BAE to expand F-35 maintenance capacity

03/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2453 Views 0 Comments BAE Syatems, F-35A Lightning II

The Australian government has signed a Facility Services Deed worth more than $100 million with BAE Systems Australia to expand

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HMS Medway crew us a drug-smuggler's boat for target practice after seizing 400kg of cocaine in the Caribbean. UK MoD. photo.
News UK USA 

Royal Navy sinks drug-smugglers’ boat

01/11/202201/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2579 Views 0 Comments

A Royal Navy ship and US Coast Guard boarding team has seized more than 400kg of cocaine from a boat

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A C-27J Spartan pulls a small-plane manoeuvre at Avalon Airshow and a RAAF C-130 Hercules on the ground at Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. Photos by Brian Hartigan.
News Royal Australian Air Force 

RAAF replacing Hercules and Spartan fleets

01/11/202201/11/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 33300 Views 46 Comments C-130J Hercules, C-27J Spartan

Defence today announced it intends to replace its current fleet of 12 C-130J Hercules air mobility aircraft with an expanded

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The State Gun Carriage, pulled by the British Royal Navy, carrying the coffin of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as it moves along the procession route in London, during the state funeral of The Queen. Photo by Sergeant Jarrod McAneney.
Poets Corner 

Our Late Queen

30/10/202230/10/2022 Mick Shave 1816 Views 0 Comments By Michael Shave

Tap, pause; tap, pause; tap, pause. A lonely sound which echoes round an ancient hall. And to its beat In

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Life on the Line Podcast 

Sally Heidenreich – Life on the Line

30/10/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2122 Views 0 Comments Life on the Line Podcast

Sharon Mascall-Dare interviews Iraq and Afghanistan veteran Sally Heidenreich. This conversation with Sally Heidenreich, a former intelligence officer in the

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HMAS Arunta’s embarked MH-60R helicopter 'Athena' come in to land as the ship transits through the Indonesian archipelago during a regional presence deployment. Photo by Able Seaman Susan Mossop.
Asia News Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Arunta to patrol North Korea sanctions

28/10/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1284 Views 0 Comments Operation Argos

Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Arunta is supporting the deterrence and monitoring of illegal ship-to-ship transfers of sanctioned goods bound

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Australian Army soldiers from the 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment present arms during the 9th Brigade Transition of Authority parade at RAAF Base Edinburgh, South Australia. Photo by Sergeant Tristan Kennedy.
Australian Army News 

9th becomes Army’s newest combat brigade

28/10/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4085 Views 0 Comments 144th Signal Squadron, 1CSSB, 1st Armoured Regiment, 1st Brigade, 7RAR, 9th Brigade

Adelaide-based 9th Brigade has become the Australian Army’s first truly integrated combat brigade, with the incorporation of several full-time Adelaide-based

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Action from the first ever women's International Defence Rugby Competition, a 15-a-side rugby tournament hosted by New Zealand. NZDF photo.
New Zealand News Overseas Videos 

France wins inaugural women’s International Defence Rugby Competition

27/10/202227/10/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2116 Views 0 Comments Women's Rugby

France has taken the honours in the first women’s International Defence Rugby Competition (IDRC) following an arm-wrestle final with New

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A No 35 Squadron C-27J Spartan flies at low level over Aussie bush.
News Royal Australian Air Force 

Radio upgrade for C-27J Spartan fleet

27/10/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1911 Views 0 Comments C-27J Spartan

Defence has signed a Commonwealth Avionics Upgrade Acquisition Contract for the C-27J Spartan light tactical fixed-wing fleet. FILE PHOTO: A

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Two Bushmaster protected mobility vehicles bound for Ukraine wait to be loaded onto a C-17A Globemaster III aircraft at RAAF Base Amberley. Photo by Leading Aircraftwoman Emma Schwenke.
Australian Army Europe News UK 

More Bushmasters, infantry trainers to support Ukraine

27/10/202227/10/2022 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1833 Views 0 Comments Ukraine

In a doorstop interview with journalists at Parliament House, Canberra, this morning, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard

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