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Members of Australia’s Federation Guard stand at ease during the Last Post Ceremony at Menin Gate, Belgium, as part of 100th Anniversary commemorations of the Battle of Polygon Wood. Photo by Corporal kyle Genner.

100th anniversary of the Battle of Polygon Wood

26/09/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4015 Views 0 Comments Passchendaele, Polygon Wood, Third Battle of Ypres

The Australian Defence Force today honours the service and sacrifice of those who fought in Belgium during the First World

An Airbus Helicopters H145M with HForce modular weapons system fitted. Photo by Christian Keller, Airbus Helicopters.

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Airbus weaponising ‘civvie’ choppers

11/09/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5106 Views 0 Comments H145M

HForce is a comprehensive new modular and cost-efficient weapon system by Airbus that can be used on any military version

Patria Nemo Container – containerised 84mm mortar system. Patria photo.

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Containerised mortar system demonstrated

02/09/201705/09/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 6158 Views 0 Comments Patria Nemo Container

Defence manufacturer Patria says its Patria Nemo Container, showcased for the first time at the IDEX 2017, has successfully completed

Italy's first home-built F-35B rolls out of final assembly. Lockheed Martin photo.

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Italy builds first F-35B outside USA

06/05/201706/05/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5296 Views 0 Comments F-35B

The first short take-off/vertical landing F-35B assembled outside the United States rolled out of its Final Assembly and Check Out (FACO)

USAF F-35As fly in formation on their way to Europe. US Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw.

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F-35 deploys on first exercise in Europe

16/04/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3850 Views 0 Comments F-35A Lightning II

F-35A Lightning II, airmen and accompanying equipment arrived at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, yesterday, marking the aircraft’s first training

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Syria cops ship loads of Tomahawk missiles

07/04/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4741 Views 0 Comments Tomahawk

US Navy ships conducted a cruise missile strike against Shayrat Airfield in Homs governorate, Syria, today at about 4:40am local

Dignitaries at the burial ceremony of the partial remains of an unknown First World War New Zealand soldier and the partial remains of two British soldiers today at the Perth (China Wall) Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery near Ieper, in Belgium.

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Remains of NZ and UK unknown soldiers buried

08/03/201708/03/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5089 Views 1 Comment Perth (China Wall) Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery, unknown soldier

The partial remains of an unknown First World War New Zealand soldier were buried with the partial remains of two

Three M1A2 Main Battle Tanks are staged before soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, 4th Infantry Division conduct the first Live Fire Accuracy Screening Tests at Presidential Range in Swietozow, Poland, January 16, 2017. Photo by Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Tarr

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Americans refresh force posture in Poland

20/01/201716/02/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4010 Views 0 Comments Poland, Zagan

Zagan, Poland— Tank and Bradley crews from 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade, 4th Infantry Division conducted their

Future NATO A330 MRTT refuelling an F-35 Lighting. Artist's impression supplied by Airbus

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Holland/Luxembourg dive into MRTT pooled fleet

29/07/201616/02/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 6762 Views 0 Comments A330, MRTT, NATO

Holland’s Ministry of Defence has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Luxembourg to proceed with the acquisition of a pooled fleet

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F-35 arrives in UK for Royal International Air Tattoo

30/06/201616/02/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5871 Views 0 Comments F-35 Lightening, Joint Strike Fighter, RIAT, Royal International Tattoo

Aviation history is set to be made in the UK this summer when, in a major airshow ‘first’, the Lockheed

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First Dutch F-35s fly home

24/05/201616/02/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5358 Views 0 Comments Dutch, F-35A, Holland, Netherlands

Holland’s first two F-35As have arrived for the first time at Leeuwarden Air Base in The Netherlands yesterday. Pilots Colonel Bert

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F-35 Lightening completes first trans-Atlantic crossing

09/02/201616/02/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4538 Views 0 Comments AL-1, F-35, JSF

An Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare) F-35A Lightning II aircraft completed the very first trans-Atlantic crossing for the type, arriving

HMS Protector during her ice-breaking transit through the Ross Sea. Quad copter photo by Leading Seaman Sam Brown and Richard Walton. © Crown copyright 2016

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Royal Navy’s ice-patrol ship completed historic Antarctic patrol

27/01/201616/02/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5334 Views 0 Comments HMS Protector, Royal Navy, Shackleton

The Royal Navy’s ice-patrol ship recently completed an historic five-week patrol to the East Antarctic and Ross Sea. HMS Protector is

Veteran aircraft of past and present RAF combat missions paid tribute to the heroes of Bomber Command. Two Tornado GR and the Avro Vulcan 'The Spirit of Great Britain' fly over Lincolnshire in order to send off the Vulcan bomber before her retirement. Britain’s only flying Vulcan, which this year completes its final flying season, was the first B2 bomber delivered into RAF service on 1 July 1960 and at 55 years old is the last and oldest of its type anywhere in the world. Despite 24 years service in the RAF the Vulcan was only once used in anger – against Port Stanley in the Falklands in the famous ‘Operation Black Buck’ mission to deny the Argentines use of the airfield.

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Modern bomber vets on WWII mission

03/10/201516/02/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 7029 Views 0 Comments GR4, RAF, Tornado, Vulcan

Modern bomber vets of past and present RAF combat missions paid tribute to the heroes of Bomber Command in a

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Britain takes delivery of third A400M

06/07/201516/02/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4938 Views 0 Comments A400M, Atlas, RAF

The UK Ministry of Defence announced it has taken delivery of its third A400M Atlas. The next-generation transport aircraft took

The repatriation British civilians killed in the Sousse attack in Tunisia.

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Eight Britons killed in terrorist attack repatriated

02/07/201516/02/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4088 Views 0 Comments RAF, Tunisia

Eight Britons killed in the terrorist attack on a tourist resort in Tunisia last week have been repatriated by the