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Funeral Guard members, left to right, Leading Seaman Lindsey Young, Able Seaman Jake Clarke and Leading Seaman Bella Cummins, carry the coffin of Leading Stoker Des Jones, as Navy Chaplain David Hastie follows. Story by Lieutenant Commander Ben Robson. Photos by Lance Corporal Joseph Hess.
ADF People History Lest We Forget Royal Australian Navy 

Last living link to tragedy of HMAS Canberra I

27/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 4326 Views 0 Comments HMAS Canberra, HMAS Canberra (I), WWII

On a still and cloudy afternoon, Leading Stoker Des Jones was laid to rest, carried to his gravesite on the

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Lieutenant Steven Taylor holds his artwork designed for the Submarine Training and Systems Centre at HMAS Stirling. Story by Chief Petty Officer Maryanne Rowbottom. Photo supplied.
News Royal Australian Navy 

Indigenous art for submarine training centre

22/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 2953 Views 0 Comments HMAS Stirling, Submarine Training and Systems Centre (STSC)

Navy’s Training Authority – Submarines (TA-SM) has unveiled a new artwork at the Submarine Training and Systems Centre (STSC) at

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Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles and UK Secretary of State for Defence John Healey with Dr Michael Sharp at a Defence Science and Technology Group display on board HMS Prince of Wales. Photo by Jay Cronan.
Australian Border Force News Royal Australian Air Force Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology 

Australia, UK partner on guided weapons R&D

22/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 4203 Views 0 Comments DSTG, Minister for Defence

The adoption of novel weapons and tactics in today’s battlespace is happening at an extremely rapid rate. CAPTION: Australian Deputy Prime

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A soldier from the 2nd Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR), conducts small boat operations during Exercise Black Cutlass at Cowley Beach Training Area in North Queensland. Story by Captain Cody Tsaousis. Photos by Lance Corporal Luke Donegan.
Australian Army News Videos 

Leadership ability cuts through at battalion

22/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 6565 Views 0 Comments 2nd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, Exercise Black Cutlass

On Exercise Black Cutlass, the 2nd Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR) proved the Australian Army’s mission to demonstrate leadership

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Visitors at the first public open day of the RAAF Townsville Aviation Heritage Centre. Story. by Squadron Leader Karyn Markwell. Photos by Flying Officer Casie Scott.
History News Royal Australian Air Force 

Townsville Aviation Heritage Centre reopens

20/08/202523/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 2918 Views 0 Comments RAAF Townsville Aviation Heritage Centre (RTAHC)

Chief of Air Force Air Marshal Stephen Chappell officially reopened the RAAF Townsville Aviation Heritage Centre (RTAHC) this month after

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A RAAF EA-18G Growler crew fires an AIM-9X Sidewinder (Block II) missile at a BQM-74E aerial target during Exercise Archer 2025. Story by Flight Lieutenant Grace Casey-Maughan. Photo supplied.
News Royal Australian Air Force Royal Australian Navy 

US joins air and missile defence trials off NSW

19/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 3598 Views 0 Comments AIM-9X Sidewinder, Beecroft Weapons Range, Exercise Archer, RAAF Amberley, RAAF Williamtown, US Air Force, US Navy

Australian and United States naval and air forces have completed live missile firing and advanced target trials off the NSW

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Navy personnel from HMAS Encounter assist with logistical support for the Hutt Street Centre’s Walk a Mile in My Boots annual charity event at Victoria Park in Adelaide. Story by Lieutenant Marcus Middleton. Photos by Leading Seaman Jayden Mansfield.
News Royal Australian Air Force Royal Australian Navy 

Encounter promises Adelaide ‘you’ll never walk alone’

19/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 3041 Views 0 Comments HMAS Encounter

Thousands of South Australians have braved icy conditions to support a key annual fundraiser for one of Adelaide’s most cherished

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Trade apprentices, carpenter Sapper Jack Graham, electrician Aircraftman Erik Wegger and carpenter Sapper Samuel Meredith, from The School of Military Engineering, work on the underground Command Post for Exercise Talisman Sabre. Story and photos by Captain Joanne Leca.
Australian Army News Talisman Sabre 

Sappers dig deep for Talisman Sabre

19/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 2595 Views 0 Comments 6th Engineer Support Regiment, Exercise Talisman Sabre, Shoalwater Bay Training Area

While other soldiers prepared for deployment to Exercise Talisman Sabre, engineers from 6th Engineer Support Regiment were already hard at

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New Zealand Army gunners from 16th Field Regiment lead a live-fire mortar exercise alongside Papua New Guinea Defence Force counterparts. NZDF photo supplied.
New Zealand News Pacific 

New Zealand Army delivers first mortar course in PNG

16/08/202516/08/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3074 Views 1 Comment NZDF, PNGDF

A New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) contingent drawn from various units within 1st (NZ) Brigade and Joint Support Group has

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Army Service Medallions for, left to right, 20 years, 10 years, four years. Photos by Corporal Michael Rogers.
Australian Army News Royal Australian Air Force Royal Australian Navy 

Medallion pays tribute to service

15/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 3298 Views 2 Comments

Good leaders recognise their people’s achievements while great leaders shape a recognition culture. CAPTION: Army Service Medallions for, left to right,

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The signing of the surrender document by Allied personnel and representatives of the Japanese forces aboard the United States battleship Missouri, September 2, 1945. Story by Rosalind Turner. Photos from Australian War Memorial.
Australian Army History Lest We Forget News Royal Australian Air Force Royal Australian Navy 

Commemorating 80 years since Victory in the Pacific

15/08/202526/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 3501 Views 0 Comments Victory in the Pacific, WWII

On the morning of August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito of Japan publicly announced that Japan would accept the Allies’ ultimatum

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Defence scientist Nicole Blaess conducts research at Defence Science and Technology Group Edinburgh. Story by Robert Nutbrown. Photo supplied.
Australian Army Cyber News Royal Australian Air Force Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology Space Division Videos 

Quantum science guides new way of navigating

15/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 6650 Views 0 Comments DSTG, National Science Week

The future of navigation might rely not on satellites but on sub-atomic particles. CAPTION: Defence scientist Nicole Blaess conducts research at

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A Sallyman provides hot and cold beverages, biscuits and a friendly ear to soldiers 'out bush'. Photo by Corporal Nick Wiseman.
Australian Army News 

Who killed the Sallyman?

13/08/202517/08/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4145 Views 16 Comments

After 126 years, the Australian Army has axed funding for the Salvation Army’s Red Shield Defence Services’ Sallyman service. FILE

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Defence fuel chemist Dr Dave Evans ensures that fuels perform as intended. Story by Robert Nutbrown. Photo by Megan Sheppard.
Australian Army Cyber News Royal Australian Air Force Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology Space Division 

Good chemistry keeps Defence moving

13/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 3179 Views 2 Comments DSTG, Net Zero Strategy, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)

Addressing climate change is a shared responsibility for our society, from the choices individuals make to the way organisations go

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Chaplain Jean-Pierre Schroeder, left, with Chaplain Miljan Popovic at RAAF Base Curtin during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025. Story by Evana Ho. Photo supplied.
ADF People Royal Australian Air Force Talisman Sabre 

Chaplain tastes red dust of northern deployment

13/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 2753 Views 0 Comments Chaplains, Exercise Talisman Sabre, No. 13 Squadron, RAAF Curtin, RAAF Reserve

In the space of a week, Jean-Pierre Schroeder went from his duties as an Anglican community school chaplain in Perth

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Defence scientist Ben Harris is attracted to the extraordinary field of quantum physics. Story by Robert Nutbrown. Photo by Kasi Metcalfe.
ADF People Australian Army Cyber Royal Australian Air Force Royal Australian Navy Space Division 

Weird particles reveal future of computing

12/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 3205 Views 0 Comments DSTO

A two-year-old child knows that if a toy is hidden behind a screen, the toy still exists and its form

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A staff cadet from Royal Military College – Duntroon provides security during Exercise Koepang, the cadets' final field exercise, in Goulburn, NSW. Story by Captain Carlie Gibson. Photo by Corporal Jack Pearce.
Australian Army News 

Urban environment tests staff cadets

12/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 2121 Views 0 Comments ADF Cadets, Royal Military College-Duntroon (RMC-D)

Goulburn’s famous resident, ‘Rambo’ The Big Merino, was upstaged recently when 133 staff cadets from the Royal Military College –

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Members on the Tactical Rope Rescue Instructors’ Training Course practise a simulated casualty rescue at Holsworthy Training Area. Story by Major Peter Nugent. Photos by Corporal Robert Whitmore.
Australian Army News Videos 

Learning the ropes to save lives

12/08/202512/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 6435 Views 0 Comments Holsworthy Barracks

If you ever have the misfortune of finding yourself stuck at the bottom of a cliff, look up … you

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Major Brian Moore receives his Federation Star from Chief of Army Lieutenant General Simon Stuart, right, in the presence of family members. Story and photo by Major Carolyn Barnett.
ADF People Australian Army History 

Career comes full circle

12/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 13085 Views 0 Comments 51st Battalion Far North Queensland Regiment

For Major Brian Moore, life has come full circle. CAPTION: Major Brian Moore receives his Federation Star from Chief of Army

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A Royal Marine from His Majesty's Armed Forces of Tonga, left, and an Australian Army soldier at Shoalwater Bay Training Area during Exercise Talisman Sabre. Photo by Captain Karam Louli.
Australian Army Cyber News Royal Australian Air Force Royal Australian Navy Space Division 

Largest iteration of Talisman Sabre comes to an end

08/08/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 2871 Views 0 Comments Exercise Talisman Sabre

After three weeks of intensive training and high-end warfighting scenarios across Australia, and for the first time in Papua New

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