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An Apache helicopter from 656 Squadron, 4 Regiment Army Air Corps, on exercise within the Arctic Circle. British Army photo.
Europe News Overseas Videos 

UK Apaches launch Arctic Hellfire

29/02/2020 Brian Hartigan 1593 Views 0 Comments

British Army’s Apache attack helicopters have fired Hellfire missiles inside the Arctic Circle for the first time to prepare for extreme-cold exercising.

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One of the first two Royal Australian Air Force F-35A Lightning Joint Strike Fighters flies overhead RAAF Base Williamtown on delivery day. Photo by Brian Hartigan.
Australian Europe News Overseas Royal Australian Air Force Science & Technology USA 

Aus/UK open splinter F-35 Reprogramming Laboratory

25/02/2020 Brian Hartigan 1088 Views 0 Comments F-35A Lightning II

Australia and the UK have officially opened an Australian and United Kingdom F-35 Reprogramming Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

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Royal Navy Pilot Lieutenant Commander Nick Grimmer in an 808 Squadron MRH90 Taipan helicopter over the Grose Valley bushfire in the Blue Mountains National Park. Photo by Chief Petty Officer Brett Kennedy.
Europe News Operations Royal Australian Navy 

British Navy pilot sees Australian bushfire action

10/01/2020 Brian Hartigan 1711 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

A Royal Navy helicopter pilot on exchange has helped save countless lives from the apocalyptic bushfires devastating Australia.

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An artists impression of a Boomeranger 10.5m special-operations RHIB, as ordered by the Royal Australian Navy for its new off-shore patrol vessels. Boomeranger image.
Australian Europe News Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology 

Finland wins Australian RHIB contract

14/10/2019 Brian Hartigan 3070 Views 0 Comments

Australia has signed a contract with Finland company Boomeranger Boats to supply the sea boats for the Royal Australian Navy’s new

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Major Graham Hickman of the New Zealand Army Band, right, receives the Pooley Sword at the final show of the 2019 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Photo courtesy The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
Europe New Zealand News Overseas 

New Zealand Army Band takes top prize at Edinburgh Tattoo

28/08/2019 Brian Hartigan 1238 Views 0 Comments

The New Zealand Army Band concluded a memorable appearance at the 2019 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo by being presented with

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Australian tugmaster trainee Alicia Pollock at the helm of a Portsmouth, UK, tug, with HMS Queen Elizabeth inward bound. Photo by Rob Hinton @TugmasterRob
Australian Europe News Overseas 

Aussie tugmasters graduate in the UK

09/08/2019 Brian Hartigan 985 Views 0 Comments

Three Serco trainees from Australia have successfully completed tugmaster training at Her Majesty’s Naval Base Portsmouth with the help of Serco

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Australian Europe News USA 

MinDef hosts NATO chief on HMAS Hobart

08/08/2019 Brian Hartigan 1320 Views 0 Comments

Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – NATO – Jens Stoltenberg visited Garden Island Defence Precinct yesterday, hosted

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Sergeant Martin O’Meara's Victoria Cross medal at the Australian Army Museum of Western Australia in Fremantle. Photo by Chief Petty Officer Damian Pawlenko.
Australian Australian Army Europe News Overseas Veterans 

Aussie VC going to Ireland

25/07/201926/07/2019 Brian Hartigan 1856 Views 0 Comments

The Australian Army Museum of Western Australia and the Australian Army History Unit has loaned Sergeant Martin O’Meara’s Victoria Cross

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Senator Linda Reynolds. Photo by David McClenaghan.
Australian Europe News Overseas 

Aus MinDef address to an (undefined) English audience

09/07/2019 Brian Hartigan 1260 Views 0 Comments

FOR THE RECORD: REPRODUCED IN TOTAL – NO EDITING OR ANALYSIS (hell, I didn’t even read it – better things

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Europe News Science & Technology 

Airbus demos ‘Network for the Sky’ on MRTT

14/06/2019 Brian Hartigan 905 Views 0 Comments

Airbus has successfully completed a flight demonstration of a connected airborne battlespace scenario, centred on a MRTT aircraft. The test

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Australia's first Boxer on show in Germany before delivery to Australia. Rheinmetall photo.
Australian Australian Army Europe News Overseas Science & Technology 

Australia’s first Boxer in the mail

30/03/2019 Brian Hartigan 2333 Views 0 Comments

Australian Ambassador to Germany Lynette Wood, senior Australian military representatives and senior Rheinmetall representatives attended an official inspection ceremony yesterday

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Lance Corporal Ralph Johnson, 32nd Bn, AIF, age 19 of Middle Brighton, Victoria, left, and Lance Corporal John Alexander Crawford, 32nd Bn, AIF, age 30 of Hindmarsh, South Australia.
Australian Australian Army Europe News Overseas Veterans 

Another seven Australian soldiers identified from the Battle of Fromelles

26/03/201926/03/2019 Brian Hartigan 1350 Views 0 Comments Fromelles

Seven Australian soldiers who fought and died in the World War One attack at Fromelles in France between 19 and 21 July 1916 have been formally identified by the Fromelles Identification Board.

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Australian Europe News Overseas Science & Technology 

E-7A Wedgetail buy by UK reflects on Australia

23/03/201923/03/2019 Brian Hartigan 2546 Views 0 Comments

The United Kingdom today announced that it has signed a contract with Boeing to acquire five E-7A Wedgetail Airborne Early

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Anzac Cove, Gallipoli.
Australian Europe News Overseas Veterans 

Statement re Dawn Service at Anzac Cove

21/03/201921/03/2019 Brian Hartigan 1533 Views 0 Comments

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs is continuing to make plans to conduct the traditional commemorative services at Anzac Cove on

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Australia’s Federation Guard catafalque party prepare to dismount during the commemorative service for the centenary of the First World War Armistice, Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France. Photo by Corporal Jake Sims.
Australian Europe News Overseas Veterans 

DVA confirms timings for Anzac day service at Villers-Bretonneux

08/02/2019 Brian Hartigan 1647 Views 1 Comment Villers-Bretonneux

Following publication of “Timings for Anzac Day service at Villers-Bretonneux changed at short notice“, CONTACT asked the Department of Veterans’

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Blood-pressure check on an ADF member. (image digitally modified)
ADF Australian Europe News Overseas 

Serco to deliver ADF health-services

05/02/201910/02/2019 Brian Hartigan 2503 Views 1 Comment

Serco Group plc (‘Serco’ or ‘the Group’), the international service company, through its Australian subsidiary and as sub‑contractor to Bupa

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The Royal Navy's Duke-class frigate HMS Montrose departs Auckland, New Zealand after a five-day visit. Photo and video by Mike Millett, AirflowNZ.
Asia Europe Middle East New Zealand News Overseas Pacific Rest of World Videos 

HMS Montrose visits NZ during 4-year deployment

22/01/201922/01/2019 Brian Hartigan 1736 Views 0 Comments HMS Montrose

From Devonport Naval Base in Plymouth, UK, to Devonport Naval Base in Auckland – the Royal New Zealand Navy welcomed

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Australian Army Major Alistair Court backflips during the men’s slopestyle final at the Australian Defence International and Interservices Alpine Snow Sports Championships at Mt Perisher, New South Wales. Photo by Corporal Chris Beerens.
ADF Australian Europe News Overseas 

30 ADF compete in European ski champs

17/01/2019 Brian Hartigan 1215 Views 0 Comments

More than 30 Australian Defence Force athletes are currently in Europe competing at the United Kingdom Armed Forces Inter-Services Snowsports

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Australian Army pallbearers lower the coffin of a recently identified Australian soldier to his final resting place, at Queant Road Cemetery, France, more than 100 years after he was killed in action on the Western Front. Photo by Leading Seaman Nadav Harel.
Australian Australian Army Europe News Overseas Veterans 

Two more WWI soldiers identified and interred

13/11/201813/11/2018 Brian Hartigan 1444 Views 0 Comments Queant Road Cemetery

The remains of two World War One Australian soldiers previously recorded as missing, then killed in action in 1917, have

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16th Field Regiment of the Royal Regiment of the New Zealand Artillery fire a 100-Gun Salute to mark the 100th Anniversary of the Beginning of the First World War (2014). The same guns and the same regiment will fire a 100-gun salute at 10.50am on 11 November 2018 to mark the end of WWI. NZDF photo.
Australian Australian Army Europe New Zealand News 

Royal artillery regiments to fire 100-gun salutes before Armistice Centenary

09/11/201809/11/2018 Brian Hartigan 1344 Views 0 Comments Centenary of Armistice

Gunners from 16th Field Regiment of the Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery will play a key role in commemorating

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