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Navy trials logistics drones for offshore delivery

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August 12, 2025
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The remotely piloted aircraft system, which can carry a 25-kilogram underslung payload with a maximum 40-minute flight time and a maximum 15-kilometre operating range, was tested as a possible delivery system for the Royal Australian Navy to receive cr…

Australian pilots lead Army’s Apache transition

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August 7, 2025
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Captain Jonathan Hogan, Major Matthew Stubbs and Captain Alexander Paranthoiene – former Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter pilots – are leading the transition of the Australian Army from the Airbus ARH Tiger to the Boeing AH-64E “Guardian” Apache a…

Australia to acquire MC-55A aircraft equipment in US$404m sale

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August 7, 2025
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The possible sale includes equipment and services to support maintenance of its MC-55A aircraft fleet, such as major and minor modifications, spare parts, US government and contractor engineering, logistics support services, consumables and accessories…

ADF personnel place well at Leapfest 2025 paratrooper contest

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August 7, 2025
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The paratrooper competition, designed to promote high-level technical training, is hosted by the 56th Troop Command of the Rhode Island Army National Guard during August and is considered to be the largest and oldest global static line parachute traini…

Boeing kicks off Townsville recruitment drive to support Apaches

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August 6, 2025
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The recruitment push comes as preparations ramp up for the basing of the advanced attack helicopters at RAAF Base Townsville later this year.

Operation Babylift ‘babies’ meet with their rescuers after 50 years

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August 4, 2025
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In an event hosted by the Australian War Memorial late last month, the now-grown passengers of Australian aircraft that carried them as orphaned babies from South Vietnam in April 1975 met the pilots and crew who operated the flights for a commemoratio…

WWII bomber ‘G for George’ arrives at Australian War Memorial

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August 4, 2025
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The Avro Lancaster B1 aircraft was flown by the RAAF No. 460 Squadron and completed more than 90 operational missions over Germany and occupied Europe.

RAAF works with US Air Force on mobile command exercises

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August 1, 2025
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Central to the operation is a small, highly specialised team made up of Australia’s 114 Mobile Control and Reporting Unit and the US 552nd Air Control Wing, working together in real time to coordinate air operations across the battlespace.

Nova Systems to deliver flight test solutions for Navy helicopters

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July 31, 2025
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Nova Systems will provide both hardware and software solutions to support the Navy’s Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Trials Unit (AMAFTU) with its modern flight testing requirements.

Defence confirms Apache helicopters on track for this year

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July 31, 2025
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Four Apaches are undergoing structural, electrical wiring, major sub-assembly and mechanical installation in final assembly and production at the Boeing facility in Mesa, Arizona.