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HMAS Canberra's flight deck team conduct crash-on-deck training with a grounded MRH-90 helicopter during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2019. Defence made no mention of the fleet-wide MRH90 grounding until asked by media nearly two weeks after this photo was published. Photo by Leading Seaman Richard Cordell.
Australian Australian Army News Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology 

MRH-90 fleet still grounded – only ‘minor modification’ required

12/08/201912/08/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3751 Views 0 Comments

Australia’s fleet of 47 MRH-90 helicopters is still grounded more than a month after a single aircraft developed a vibration

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HMAS Hobart’s embarked MR-60R helicopter ‘COBRA 16’ during first-of-class flight trials off the east coast off Australia. Photo by Lieutenant Commander Sidney Raper.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology 

HMAS Hobart conducts first-of-class flight trials

02/08/201902/08/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2546 Views 0 Comments

From Navy Daily, 2 August 2019 Author Lieutenant Ryan Zerbe Two of Navy’s newest cutting-edge platforms have combined, with the air

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HMAS Melbourne leads STS Young Endeavour and Chilean Navy tall ship, Buque Escuela Esmeralda into Sydney Harbour. Photo by Leading Seaman Jarrod Mulvihill.
Australian News Rest of World Royal Australian Navy 

Chilean tallship visits Sydney

01/08/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2751 Views 0 Comments

Four historic Australian ships and two contemporary Royal Australian Navy ships welcomed the Chilean Navy’s tallship Buque Escuela Esmeralda to Sydney today. CAPTION:

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An LHD landing craft carries an M1A1 Abrams tank in Townsville Harbour during post-upgrade trials. Royal Australian Navy Photo.
Australian Australian Army News Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology 

LLCs modified and tested to carry tanks

31/07/201909/08/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5534 Views 0 Comments

The landing craft aboard Australia’s Canberra-class landing helicopter dock (LHD) ships have undergone significant modification and testing over the past

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An Australian Army officer co-pilots a Royal New Zealand Air Force NH90 helicopter with a New Zealand pilot from No. 3 Squadron RNZAF during Exercise Talisman Sabre. NZDF photo.
Australian Australian Army News Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology Talisman Sabre 

Aussies fly Kiwi choppers as own fleet grounded

29/07/201912/08/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 6896 Views 3 Comments

A fleet-wide grounding of all Australian MRH-90 helicopters recently put a significant dent in ship-to-shore capabilities – and no doubt

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A typical dhow in the Middle East. Photo by Able Seaman Jayson Tufrey.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy 

Navy takes a break from Middle East patrols

16/07/201921/08/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2682 Views 0 Comments

With the return of HMAS Ballarat from its nine-month deployment to the Middle East under Operation Manitou on Sunday –

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Families and friends welcome home HMAS Ballarat at Fleet Base West, Western Australia, after her nine-month deployment on Operation Manitou. Photo by Leading Seaman Kylie Jagiello.
Australian Middle East News Operations Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Ballarat home from very successful Middle East mission

14/07/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2401 Views 0 Comments

Family, friends and VIPs welcomed the return of Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Ballarat to Australia today following a highly

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HMAS Sirius at anchor off the coast of Samoa. Photo by Corporal Jessica de Rouw.
Australian News Overseas Pacific Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Sirius gets confusing head start on six-month Pacific mission

05/07/201912/07/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4784 Views 0 Comments

A Defence press release issued today says Joint Task Force 637 and Her Majesty’s Australian Ship Sirius will arrive in Fiji

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HMAS Newcastle's decommissioning crew march off their ship for the last time.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Newcastle formally decommissioned

30/06/201930/06/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2937 Views 0 Comments

The Royal Australian Navy has celebrated the completion of 25 years of service by HMAS Newcastle at a ceremony to

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Ship’s company of HMAS Success march off the ship for the last time during her decommissioning ceremony at Fleet Base East, Sydney. Photo by Chief Petty Officer Cameron Martin.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Success ceremonially decommissioned

30/06/201930/06/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2711 Views 0 Comments

Auxiliary oiler replenishment ship HMAS Success was ceremonially decommissioned at her home port of Garden Island in Sydney on Saturday 29 June

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Lieutenant Megan Ryan stacks boxes ammunition seized during a boarding in HMAS Ballarat's hangar. Photo by Leading Seaman Bradley Darvill.
Australian Middle East News Operations Royal Australian Navy 

Ballarat seizes suspected arms shipment

28/06/201929/06/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3270 Views 0 Comments

HMAS Ballarat has conducted a boarding of a dhow in international waters in the Arabian Sea, finding, seizing and destroying a cargo

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The Royal Australian Navy Guided Missile Destroyer HMAS Brisbane (III)’s ceremonial lifebuoy announcing the ship’s arrival at Hamilton wharf on the first visit to her namesake city. Photo by Corporal Colin Dadd.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy 

20 warships to visit Brisbane

20/06/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5231 Views 0 Comments

During June and July, Brisbane will host more than 20 military ships as an off-shoot of Exercise Talisman Sabre 2019.

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HMAS Success in company with HMAS Toowoomba (rear), and HMAS Adelaide (handrail, front) during Indo Pacific Endeavour 2018. (This image was digitally altered by Defence (no details)). Photo by Able Seaman Kieran Dempsey.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy 

‘The Battle Tanker’ comes home for the last time

16/06/201928/06/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3250 Views 0 Comments

The Royal Australian Navy’s longest-serving ship, HMAS Success (II), today completed her final voyage after 33 years’ service to Australia. FILE

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AWD Hobart on initial sea trials, 2016. Photo courtesy the AWD Alliance.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology 

HMAS Hobart’s Aegis Combat System ‘light off’

12/06/201913/06/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3903 Views 0 Comments

Lockheed Martin Australia in support of the Royal Australian Navy has conducted a successful ‘light off’ of the Aegis Combat

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HMAS Newcastle connects to HMAS Success during a replenishment at sea evolution during Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019. Photo by Leading Seaman Christopher Szumlanski.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Newcastle comes home for the last time

12/06/201916/06/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3793 Views 0 Comments

The Royal Australian Navy today celebrated the completion of the final overseas deployment by an Adelaide-class guided missile frigate with

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Royal Australian Navy ship, HMAS Melbourne during Exercise Pacific Vanguard 19. Photo by Leading Seaman Ronnie Baltoft.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Melbourne comes home for last time

11/06/201905/07/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3412 Views 0 Comments

The Royal Australian Navy’s oldest Adelaide-class warship, HMAS Melbourne (III), has returned to Australia from her final overseas mission. The

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Able Seaman Justin Springer and Leading Seaman Daniel Colliver remove sacks containing suspected narcotics from a dhow's hold in the Middle East. Photo by Leading Seaman Bradley Darvill.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Ballarat nabs more drugs – Defence suddenly coy about specifics

08/06/201913/06/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3361 Views 0 Comments

. Royal Australian Navy Frigate HMAS Ballarat has seized another four illicit drug shipments in three days while deployed to

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Royal Australian Navy guided-missile frigate HMAS Melbourne launches an SM2 missile while holding formation with Republic of Korea Navy guided-missile destroyer ROKS Wang Geon and Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force destroyer JS Ariake during a live-fire demonstration as part of Pacific Vanguard. Photo by MC2 Taylor DiMartino.
Australian News Overseas Rest of World Royal Australian Navy 

First Exercise Pacific Vanguard a success

31/05/201901/06/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3467 Views 0 Comments

The first iteration of Exercise Pacific Vanguard was successfully held off the coast of Guam over the period 22 to

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HMAS Ballarat's boarding party conduct a boarding of a suspicious dhow. Photo by Leading Seaman Bradley Darvill.
Australian Middle East News Operations Royal Australian Navy 

Ballarat busts past $billion$ milestone

30/05/201930/05/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2773 Views 1 Comment

The crew of HMAS Ballarat has stopped illegal narcotics in excess of AUD$1 billion* from funding terrorism and other illegal

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HMAS Ships Parramatta, Newcastle, Canberra and Success in formation during Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019. Photo by Corporal Kylie Gibson.
ADF Asia Australian News Overseas Royal Australian Navy 

Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019 returns home

26/05/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4031 Views 0 Comments

Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019 (IPE 19) Joint Task Force has returned to Australia following a three-month regional-engagement mission to South and

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