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No. 36 Squadron Loadmaster Corporal Deon Jones watches as palletised cargo rolls off the ramp of a Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster III during an airdrop of supplies to Mawson Research Station, Antarctica. Photo by Petty Officer Bradley Darvill.
Australian Army News Rest of World Royal Australian Air Force 

RAAF air-drops essential supplies to Mawson Station

03/06/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1509 Views 0 Comments Australian Antarctic Program, Mawson Station

Royal Australian Air Force and Australian Army personnel combined forces to resupply the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) from the air,

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Seaman Riley Moreton, Sub-Lieutenant Nathan Rose, Able Seaman Justin Haynes and Seaman Jamie Jackson in a rigid hull inflatable boat at Fleet Base East after assisting a a distressed kayaker in Sydney Harbour. Photo by Leading Seaman Harry Boardman.
News Royal Australian Navy 

Navy rescues civvie kayaker from Sydney Harbour during peak hour

03/06/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1156 Views 0 Comments

A quick, coordinated rescue effort by Royal Australian Navy personnel had a distressed kayaker plucked from icy waters, preventing a

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Australian and partner military personnel work on clearing a site to be used to dispose of WWII remnants during Operation Render Safe in Nauru. Photo by Sergeant Craig Barrett.
ADF News Pacific 

Operation Render Safe hits Nauru

03/06/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1921 Views 0 Comments Operation Render Safe

Australian Army personnel from the 6th Engineer Support Regiment and 20th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squadron, along with allied partners, have

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Australian Army medical specialists receive a simulated casualty in the Role 2 Basic resuscitation bay during Exercise Rhino Run at Cultana Training Area. Photo by Sergeant Matthew Bickerton.
Australian Army News 

Testing deployable hospital close to front line

03/06/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2165 Views 0 Comments

Soldiers could be less likely to succumb to battlefield injuries thanks to a new manoeuvrable surgical medical-treatment facility that operates

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Sapper Aidan Jones and his explosive detection dog, Yambo, during Exercise Brolga Run 2024 in Townsville Field Training Area, Queensland. Photo by Captain Brittany Evans.
Australian Army News 

Explosive detection dogs on Ex Brolga Run

31/05/202431/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1838 Views 0 Comments 3CER, EDD, Explosive Detection Dogs

From curling up with their handlers to doing a happy dance when they find explosives, the 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment’s

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Pallets of aid from Australia and the United Kingdom bound for Enga Province in Papua New Guinea wait to be loaded onto a C-17A Globemaster III at RAAF Base Amberley. Photo by Corporal Brett Sherriff.
News Pacific Royal Australian Air Force 

Aid heads to PNG after landslide

31/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1444 Views 0 Comments PNG landslide

The ADF has delivered much-needed supplies of humanitarian aid to Papua New Guinea in the aftermath of the deadly landslide

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Royal Australian Air Force aviators from No. 26 Squadron provide assistance to occupants disembarking Beechcraft B200 Super King Air VH-XDV after an emergency wheels-up landing at Newcastle Airport, NSW. Photo by Leading Aircraftman Kurt Lewis.
News Royal Australian Air Force 

Civilian aircraft lands in safe hands

31/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1704 Views 0 Comments RAAF Base Williamtown

A civilian light aircraft with one crew and two passengers on board performed a textbook wheels-up landing at RAAF Base

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Royal Australian Navy Armidale-class patrol boat HMAS Bathurst sails past USS Emory S. Land as the United States Navy ship prepares to come alongside Kuru Wharf at HMAS Coonawarra, Darwin, NT, during her visit of Australia. Photo by Petty Officer Leo Baumgartner.
News Royal Australian Navy 

US submarine tender (with 30 Aussie crew) visits Darwin

30/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2246 Views 0 Comments AUKUS

Australia has welcomed the United States of America’s submarine tender USS Emory S. Land to Darwin for a port visit.

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HMAS Stirling and WA emergency services personnel care for simulated casualties during Exercise Vulcan Phoenix 2024 at Fleet Base West, Western Australia. Photo by Leading Seaman Rikki-Lea Phillips.
News Royal Australian Navy 

Interagency crisis-response exercise in WA

29/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1574 Views 0 Comments

It was an all-agencies approach at Fleet Base West, Rockingham, as Exercise Vulcan Phoenix got underway. CAPTION: HMAS Stirling and

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Gunners from the 1st Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, fire an M777 Howitzer while taking up defensive firing positions, at Shoalwater Bay Training Area. Photo by Private Alfred Stauder.
Australian Army News 

Soldiers experience ‘danger-close’ artillery

29/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1878 Views 0 Comments 1st Regiment Royal Australian Artillery

Soldiers from 1st Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, conducted live-fire training, including danger-close serials, as part of a combined-arms training activity

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Soldiers from 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, on board F470 Zodiacs conducting small-boat training in the littoral environment during Exercise Tiger's Run 2022 on the Timor Sea. Photo by Corporal Rodrigo Villablanca.
Australian Army News Sovereign industry 

Call for pitches to optimise the soldier for littoral operations

27/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2111 Views 1 Comment

The Australian Army is calling on defence industry and academia to pitch innovative capabilities to optimise the soldier for littoral

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Lieutenant Donna Nabure, from the Australian Defence Force Malaria and Infectious Diseases Institute team, talks with a Papua New Guinea Defence Force member and his child during a health survey. Photo by Corporal Samuel Miller.
ADF News Pacific 

Scientific team surveys health in PNG

25/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1723 Views 0 Comments Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea Defence Force, PNG, PNGDF

Bringing science to the heart of Papua New Guinea, the ADF Malaria and Infectious Diseases Institute spent several weeks conducting

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Last known image of AE1, 9 September 1914 – five days before she was lost – with HMAS Ships Australia and Yarra in the background.
News Royal Australian Navy Veterans 

Marking 110 years of silent service

25/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2262 Views 0 Comments HMAS AE1, HMAS AE2

It’s been 110 years since the Royal Australian Navy took delivery of its first submersible vessels, and while the technology

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Australian Army soldiers from 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, fire a 12.7mm Mark 2 machine gun at night at Townsville Field Training Area, Queensland. Photo by Corporal Brandon Grey and Captain Brittany Evans.
Australian Army News 

1RAR fires heavy weapons at night

25/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1736 Views 0 Comments 1RAR

Soldiers from the direct fire support weapons platoon (DFSW) of the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, conducted a full-mission profile

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Stranded tourists board a RAAF C-130J Hercules at Noumea’s Magenta Airport for repatriation to Australia following violent unrest in New Caledonia. Photo by Leading Aircraftman Adam Abela.
News Pacific Royal Australian Air Force 

RAAF flies stranded Aussies home from New Caledonia

23/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1970 Views 1 Comment New Caledonia

Around 70 Australians and foreign nationals boarded a Royal Australian Air Force C-130J Hercules for the first ADF repatriation flight

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Royal Australian Navy sailor Able Seaman Dillan Ackerman oversees 3D printed engineering parts at Fleet Support Unit – South East, Sydney. Photo by Leading Seaman Jarrod Mulvihill.
News Royal Australian Navy 

New technologies could solve Navy’s spare-part problems

23/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1477 Views 0 Comments

Sailors from Fleet Support Unit (FSU) are developing tools that will ensure ships and submarines never run out of spare

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Royal Australian Navy EC-135 Aircraft from 723 Squadron conduct a fly past during the 723 Squadron Graduation Ceremony held at HMAS Albatross in Nowra. Story by Sub Lieutenant Jess Gould. Photo by Leading Seaman Ryan Tascas .
ADF News 

ADF helicopter-pilot training increased 50%

23/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2113 Views 0 Comments

After substantially increasing flying hours over the past two-and-a-half years, 723 Squadron has increased its graduate output by 50 per

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Australian Army officers and soldiers from 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment march in the streets of Airlie Beach while exercising their Freedom of Entry Parade. Photo by Trooper Dana Millington.
Australian Army News 

3CER exercise Freedom of Entry at Airlie Beach – finally

22/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1513 Views 0 Comments

In a first for the Whitsunday region, members of the 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment (3CER) conducted a freedom-of-entry parade at

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Australian Army soldier Private Lachlan Parker from the 5th Brigade on patrol during Exercise Tasman Reserve 2024.
Australian Army New Zealand News 

Aussie infantrymen integrated into major Kiwi reservists’ exercise

22/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1745 Views 0 Comments

Biting cold and demanding sub-alpine conditions of the Waiouru Military Training Area in New Zealand’s north island were among the

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Royal Australian Navy Able Seaman Shannae Fiddyment, Petty Officer Eric Duthie, Able Seaman Grace Fox and Able Seaman Henrietta Bradford prepare communication equipment for a Remus 100S autonomous underwater vehicle during Exercise AUKUS at Pittwater, New South Wales. Photo by Able Seaman Lucinda Allanson.
Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology 

Royal Australian Navy investing heavily in AI

22/05/202422/05/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1537 Views 0 Comments

Artificial intelligence (AI) predicting and countering undersea threats, and AI-enabled drones conducting surface and sub-surface missions, are happening now through

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