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Australia's first MC-55A Peregrine departs the United States for RAAF Base Edinburgh, South Australia. Photo courtesy L3Harris Technologies.
News Royal Australian Air Force 

Australia’s first Peregrine arrives

25/01/202625/01/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1010 Views 0 Comments

The first of four MC-55A Peregrines – Australia’s inaugural airborne intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and electronic warfare (ISREW) aircraft – has

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Medics, nurses and doctors carry out blood training during a scenario as part of Exercise Surging Forward. Story by Captain Chris Wade. Photos by Corporal Adrian Murphy.
Australian Army Health and Wellbeing News 

Medics confronted with multiple challenges

23/01/2026 Posted by Mike Hughes 388 Views 0 Comments 3rd Health Battalion, Exercise Surging Forward, RAAF Edinburgh

Personnel from the 3rd Health Battalion trialled innovative ways of deploying their equipment into the field swiftly and efficiently, under

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An Army HX81 truck pulls a water tanker to demonstrate the new weighbridge at RAAF Base Amberley. Story by Warrant Officer Class 2 Max Bree. Photos: byPrivate Mikayla Abson.
Australian Army News Royal Australian Air Force 

Base overhaul a boon for Defence’s big haulers

22/01/202622/01/2026 Posted by Mike Hughes 625 Views 0 Comments 9th Force Support Battalion's (9FSB), RAAF Amberley

Defence’s MAN truck drivers will no longer struggle when weighing or washing their vehicles at RAAF Base Amberley thanks to

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Australian Army Lieutenant Mitchell 'Tex' Walker in tank number 51 during the delivery of Australian M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. Story and photos by Lieutenant Commander John Thompson
Australian Army News 

Aussies who prepared tanks for Ukraine delivery

22/01/202625/01/2026 Posted by Mike Hughes 682 Views 2 Comments M1A1 Abrams, Operation Kudu, Ukraine

The recent delivery of the final batch of M1A1 Abrams to Ukraine had special meaning for Townsville-born – and now

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Wargamers from Defence Science and Technology Group and the Army Battle Lab engage in an analytical wargame. Story by Robert Nutbrown. Photo by Mandom Paje.
ADF Australian Army News Royal Australian Air Force Royal Australian Navy 

Wargamers explore tech of tomorrow

20/01/2026 Posted by Mike Hughes 586 Views 0 Comments DSTG, Wargaming

Defence has staged the first Innovation and Asymmetry Wargame to explore how emerging technologies might shape future military operations. CAPTION:

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Private Mathew Guy, A Company, 3RAR, keeps a keen eye on suspected militia activity across the border in West Timor, from East Timor's Oecussi Enclave. Photo by Corporal Brian Hartigan.
Australian Army Operations Veterans 

SHOTS END TIMOR RAID – Diggers thwart enclave incursions

17/01/202617/01/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 813 Views 0 Comments

Following is a page-1 story from ARMY Newspaper published 3 February 2000By Corporal Brian Hartigan – now CONTACT Editor OECUSSI, JAN

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A94-983 Sabre in RAAF's 75 Squadron markings on its first flight after restoration at Temora Aviation Museum. Photo by Brian Hartigan.
News Royal Australian Air Force 

RAAF slashes heritage fleet

16/01/202616/01/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 8619 Views 21 Comments

Royal Australian Air Force will dispose of eight of its 19 heritage aircraft following a review of “technical and airworthiness

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DroneShield's rapidly deployable fixed-site C-UAS solution at a Defence site. Image supplied by DroneShield.
Australian News Science & Technology 

DroneShield panelled for counter-drone solution

16/01/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 876 Views 0 Comments

Australian company DroneShield has been selected as a supplier for the Australian Department of Defence’s (Defence) Project LAND 156’s Line

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A black-and-white newspaper clipping from a 1980s Army Newspaper showing military personnel.
Australian Army History News 

Defence funds newspapers digitisation

13/01/202617/01/2026 Posted by Mike Hughes 832 Views 0 Comments

Step back in time this summer with Defence early service newspapers, which capture the spirit of Australia’s armed forces and

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Royal Australian Air Force members help a civilian during the nationwide floods in 1974.
History News Royal Australian Air Force 

Eight squadrons in biggest mercy operation

13/01/2026 Posted by Mike Hughes 722 Views 0 Comments

Step back in time this summer with defence early Service Newspapers, which capture the spirit of Australia’s armed forces and

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Former Navy clearance Diver Wally Reynolds, right, with Phillip Meade after he descended 327 feet to set an Australian aqualung diving record 12 miles off the coast of Newport, NSW. Story by Corporal Darryl Gallagher.
History News Royal Australian Navy 

Navy diving records broken then and now

13/01/2026 Posted by Mike Hughes 618 Views 0 Comments

Step back in time this summer with defence early Service Newspapers, which capture the spirit of Australia’s armed forces and

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A photo from the 1984 newspaper article.
Australian Army History News 

The 30-year-old mystery of the wallet

13/01/202613/01/2026 Posted by Mike Hughes 603 Views 0 Comments

Step back in time this summer with defence early Service Newspapers, which capture the spirit of Australia’s armed forces and

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A soldier rides a Mechanical Mule in a 1960 photo from the Australian Army newspaper, now digitised through Trove.
Australian Army History News 

From Mechanical Mule to modern mobility

13/01/202613/01/2026 Posted by Mike Hughes 544 Views 0 Comments Canungra

Step back in time this summer with defence early Service Newspapers, which capture the spirit of Australia’s armed forces and

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An Australian Army M142 HIMARS is prepared for loading onto a United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at RAAF Base Amberley. Photo by Corporal Jesse Linards.
Australian Army News USA 

Kenney Strikes Back in north and south parks

10/01/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1260 Views 0 Comments HIMARS

The Australian Army, United States Army and United States Air Force demonstrated a new capability as part of Exercise Kenney

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A soldier views the new mySPECTRA software on his work computer. Photo by Corporal Luke Bellman.
ADF News Science & Technology 

New software to manage Defence radio frequencies

10/01/202610/01/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1038 Views 0 Comments

Defence has completed operational test and evaluation on the new mySPECTRA software, designed to modernise management of the electromagnetic spectrum

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Australian Olympians Haylie Powell and Natalya Diehm, Australian Olympic Committee member Melissa Romer, and Senior Indigenous Liaison Officer, Squadron Leader Coen Henry, sit on the ramp of a Royal Australian Air Force C-130J Hercules during Exercise Christmas Hop 2025, over the Northern Territory. Photo by Leading Aircraftman Campbell Latch.
News Royal Australian Air Force 

Olympian joins RAAF

10/01/202610/01/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 930 Views 0 Comments

Women’s Olympic street skateboarder Haylie Powell is excited to be following in her parents’ footsteps by joining the Royal Australian

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Group Captain Adam Saber gives a farewell gift to outgoing Commander Air Mobility Group, Air Commodore Bradley Clarke at a Change of Command ceremony at RAAF Base Richmond. Photo by Leading Aircraftwoman Mikaela Fernlund.
News Royal Australian Air Force 

Change of command at Air Mobility Group

10/01/202610/01/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 878 Views 0 Comments

Air Mobility Group (AMG) aviators marched on the tarmac at RAAF Base Richmond on December 10 to farewell the outgoing

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Warrant Officer of the Air Force Warrant Officer Ralph Clifton presents acting Flight Lieutenant Thomas James Carmody’s Australian Service Medal 1939–1945 and War Medal 1939–1945 to Julie Carmody. Photo: Aircraftman Jakob Reid.
News Royal Australian Air Force Veterans 

War hero’s medals awarded 80 years late

10/01/202610/01/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 809 Views 0 Comments

Fire, exploding ammunition and a collapsing aircraft hangar didn’t stop acting Flight Lieutenant Tom Carmody (deceased) during the Second World

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Royal Australian Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force members participate in Virtual Flag: Coalition 26-1 at the 705th Combat Training Squadron, also known as the Distributed Mission Operations Center, at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.
Australian Army News Royal Australian Air Force USA 

Coalition enhanced on virtual Red Flag

03/01/202603/01/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1282 Views 0 Comments

The Virtual Flag: Coalition exercise, hosted annually by the 705th Combat Training Squadron, also known as the Distributed Mission Operations

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Australian M1A1 Abrams tanks bound for Ukraine are unloaded in Europe after arriving from Australia on a cargo ship. Photo by Lance Corporal JA Thompson.
Australian Army Europe News 

Australia completes delivery of tanks to Ukraine

19/12/202520/12/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 1794 Views 0 Comments M1A1 Abrams, Operation Kudu, Ukraine

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has completed its landmark commitment to provide Ukraine with 49 M1A1 Abrams tanks, reinforcing the

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