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8th/12th Regiment RAA

Army soldiers from the 8th/12th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, conduct a danger-close live-fire serial with M777 howitzers on Exercise Predators Walk at Mount Bundey Training Area in the NT. Story and photo by Captain Nicholas Marquis.
Australian Army News 

Soldiers see result of their work on the gun line

04/06/202507/06/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 1193 Views 0 Comments 8th/12th Regiment RAA, Exercise Predator’s Walk, M777 Howitzer

Dust clouds the air through the percussion of each blast from four M777A2 howitzers on the gun line, shrapnel falls

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Gunners from 102nd Battery, 8th/12th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery participate in the re-enactment of the Bombing of Darwin. Story and photo by Sergeant Matthew Bickerton.
Australian Army History Lest We Forget News Royal Australian Air Force Royal Australian Navy 

Darwin bombing a call to defend the north

04/03/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 1833 Views 2 Comments 8th/12th Regiment RAA, RAAF Darwin, WWII

From RAAF Base Darwin, a young Brian Winspear saw Japanese bombs glinting in the sun like confetti above Darwin on

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Australian Army soldiers practice offloading from a United States Army Reserve CH-47 Chinook in preparation for an insertion into the Field Training Exercise during Exercise Keris Strike in Sabah, Malaysia. Story and photo by Lieutenant Chloe Reay.
Australian Army News Overseas 

Choppers gives bombardier a lift

31/07/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1634 Views 0 Comments 8th/12th Regiment RAA, Exercise Keris Strike, Malaysian Armed Forces

Just outside of Kota Belud in Sabah, Malaysia, three nations gather under the banner of Exercise Keris Strike 2024. CAPTION:

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Ken Murphy stands with Battery Commander Major Jack Bagwill, right, and Battery Sergeant Major, Warrant Officer Class Two Chris Saetta, following the presentation of the Queen's Banner at Robertson Barracks. Story by Captain Annie Richardson.
Australian Army History News 

A proud day for former gunner

12/06/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 1767 Views 0 Comments 8th/12th Regiment RAA

In a reunion bridging decades of service, Ken Murphy, a distinguished veteran of the 101st Battery, 8th/12th Regiment, Royal Australian

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Soldiers from the 8th/12th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations via Zodiac small watercraft as part of Operation Resolute in the Kimberley Marine Park, WA. Story by Captain Annie Richardson. Photo by Corporal Gregory Scott.
Australian Army News 

Arty battery embraces new littoral role

16/02/202418/02/2024 Posted by Mike Hughes 2515 Views 1 Comment 8th/12th Regiment RAA, Defence Strategic Review, intelligence, Operation Resolute, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), Zodiac

Traditionally steeped in the ethos of conventional gunnery, the 101st Battery of the 8th/12th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, is now

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Soldiers from the 8th/12th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery push a 2500kg M2A2 howitzer on a 20km journey through Darwin City to raise funds for the Gunner Bear charity. Story by Captain Annie Richardson. Photos by Sub-Lieutenant Chloe Reay.
Australian Army Health and Wellbeing News 

Pushing through for littlest Territorians

03/11/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 1622 Views 0 Comments 8th/12th Regiment RAA, Gunner Bear, M2A2 Howitzer

Battling the searing 36-degree heat and humidity of Darwin, soldiers and officers of the 8th/12th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery (8/12Regt

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Australian Army Gunner Max Hood, of 4th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, sets up an M777 howitzer at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area during Exercise Talisman Sabre. Story and photos by Corporal Jacob Joseph.
Australian Army News 

Rockets on the horizon

10/10/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 2224 Views 0 Comments 8th/12th Regiment RAA, HIMARS, M777 Howitzer

In the days following Exercise Talisman Sabre’s firepower demonstration in July, when American high mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS) and

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