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HMAS Arunta

HMAS Arunta departs Fleet Base East in Sydney on a regional presence deployment to South-East Asia. Story by Lieutenant Gary McHugh. Photo by Leading Seaman Matthew Lyall.
News Overseas Royal Australian Navy 

Arunta departs for three-month deployment

03/02/2022 Posted by Mike Hughes 3347 Views 0 Comments Fleet Base East, HMAS Arunta, Regional Presence Deployment

HMAS Arunta sailed from her home port of Fleet Base East on January 28 for a three-month regional presence deployment.

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Australian News Operations Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Arunta home after record long deployment

23/07/201728/07/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4106 Views 0 Comments Combined Maritime Forces Middle East, HMAS Arunta, Middle East

HMAS Arunta has arrived home to Western Australia after a very successful and longer-than-usual nine-month Middle East deployment. Hundreds of

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HMAS Arunta alongside Port Victoria, Seychelles, during her mission to the Middle East. Photo by Chief Petty Officer Brendan Gee.
Australian Middle East News Operations Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Arunta homeward bound after longest ME deployment

11/07/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3801 Views 0 Comments HMAS Arunta, Operation Manitou

Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Arunta is returning home to Australia after completing the longest deployment by a RAN vessel

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A member of HMAS Arunta's boarding party embarks a dhow smuggling illegal narcotics in the Middle East Region. Photo by Able Seaman Steven Thomson.
Australian News Operations Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Arunta nets third major drugs haul

14/06/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4113 Views 0 Comments heroin, HMAS Arunta, Operation Manitou

HMAS Arunta has completed a third significant narcotics interdiction after seizing 260kg of heroin in the north Indian Ocean off

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Members of HMAS Arunta's boarding party seize and account for illegal narcotics found during the search of a dhow while on patrol in the Middle East. Photo by Able Seaman Steven Thomson.
Australian New Zealand News Operations Royal Australian Navy Videos 

Kiwi Orion and HMAS Arunta team on major drug bust

12/05/201712/05/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5109 Views 0 Comments drug interception, HMAS Arunta, RNZAF P-3K2 Orion

Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Arunta has seized approximately 250kg of heroin during a vessel interception off the coast of

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HMAS Arunta personnel account for illegal narcotics they seized in the Middle East. Photo by Able Seaman Steven Thompson.
Australian News Operations Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Arunta seizes 800kg of hashish in Middle East

03/03/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4964 Views 0 Comments hashish, HMAS Arunta

Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Arunta has seized more than 800kg of hashish hidden in a consignment of coffee. CAPTION: HMAS Arunta personnel account for

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HMAS Arunta fires her 5-inch gun against a simulated fast boat attack during the Fleet Concentration Period 2015. Photo by Leading Seaman Bradley Darvill.
Australian News Operations Royal Australian Navy 

Arunta sails for Middle East

12/11/201612/11/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4742 Views 0 Comments HMAS Arunta, Operation Manitou

HMAS Arunta will depart from her home port of Fleet Base West, Rockingham, for maritime security activities in Middle East tomorrow. FILE

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HMAS Perth's boarding party smash through rough seas to close with a vessel of interest in the Middle East Region. Photo by Able Seaman Richard Cordell.
Australian News Operations Royal Australian Navy 

HMAS Perth set for Remembrance Day homecoming

10/11/201620/11/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4730 Views 0 Comments Combined Maritime Forces Middle East, HMAS Arunta, HMAS Perth

HMAS Perth will return to her namesake city tomorrow after spending six months deployed on (non Operation Manitou) maritime security operations in the

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Photo by Able Seaman Kayla Hayes
Australian News Royal Australian Navy 

Dolphins accompany returning sailors

17/11/201517/11/2015 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3859 Views 0 Comments HMAS Arunta, HMAS Sirius, HMAS Stuart, TNI-AL, Vendemiaire

HMAS Sirius sails home to Australia accompanied by a pod of dolphins in the Java Sea after a North East

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HMA Ships Stuart and Arunta conduct a screenplay exercise with PLANS Yuncheng in the South China Sea. Photo by Able Seaman Kayla Hayes
Australian News Overseas Royal Australian Navy 

RAN conducts naval exercise in China

03/11/2015 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4823 Views 0 Comments China, HMAS Arunta, HMAS Stuart, People’s Liberation Army – Navy, PLA-N, Zhanjiang

The Royal Australian Navy conducted a port visit and naval exercise with the People’s Liberation Army – Navy (PLA-N) in

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