The 1st Armoured Regiment, 1st (Australian) Division and members of the New Zealand Army formed Battlegroup Anzac for two weeks in May, testing robotic and autonomous systems at scale.
The carrier, which had planned to launch from Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) with a fleet of all Airbus A320neo family aircraft, has conceded it may need to consider older A320ceo (current engine option) planes as part of its fleet mix.
Taking place at RAAF Bases Darwin and Tindal from 6 to 17 July, Exercise Southern Cross 26 “seeks to practice operating as a trilateral task force within a contemporary, high-end, warfighting environment”, according to a statement from Defence.
During the launch, two Australian-supplied AGM-84 Harpoon guided missiles were successfully fired by No. 5 Squadron and struck the decommissioned target ship, USS Juneau, in the Philippine Sea on 27 June this year.
In its From Paddock to Plane: Feedstock White Paper, produced as part of its work with the Jet Zero Council, GrainCorp argues that existing feedstocks could support SAF production equal to around 117 per cent of Australia’s projected 2030 jet fuel dema…
Delays stretched from 30 minutes to an hour as at 9am on Sunday, though Airservices said the issues, caused by “short notice unplanned leave”, were resolved by 11:30am. Civil Air, however, said it “emphatically rejects” the claims around leave.
ZK-NZD flew out of Alice Springs on 28 June, having been in long-term storage since September while its Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines were repaired, and operated its first commercial flight since last August on 30 June as NZ8 from Auckland to San Fran…
The first of 12 three-carriage Siemens trains was unloaded at Port Kembla last week and trucked to the new Stabling and Maintenance Facility at Orchard Hills for assembly, having travelled 23,000 kilometres by ship from Vienna.
The purpose-built facility will house the National Integrated Air and Missile Defence Ecosystem, designed to support next-generation IAMD systems and bolster Australia’s sovereign defence capability.
The high-performance single engine, two-seater turboprop has been put up for sale by California aircraft seller Platinum Fighter sales but is registered in Australia as VH-YMK and selling out of New South Wales.