{"id":291990,"date":"2025-09-26T16:26:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/?p=1421012"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:26:23","slug":"raaf-lightning-jets-take-to-the-northern-skies-in-arnhem-thunder-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=291990","title":{"rendered":"RAAF Lightning jets take to the northern skies in Arnhem Thunder 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI2NDAiIGhlaWdodD0iMzYxIj48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIj48YW5pbWF0ZSBhdHRyaWJ1dGVOYW1lPSJmaWxsIiB2YWx1ZXM9InJnYmEoMTUzLDE1MywxNTMsMC41KTtyZ2JhKDE1MywxNTMsMTUzLDAuMSk7cmdiYSgxNTMsMTUzLDE1MywwLjUpIiBkdXI9IjJzIiByZXBlYXRDb3VudD0iaW5kZWZpbml0ZSIgLz48L3JlY3Q+PC9zdmc+\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image wp-image-1421016 wp-post-1421012\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" data-public-id=\"Australian Aviation\/20250812raaf8165233_0023.jpg.iieV_pz3MfXxH-9jYBMA.C_BJEuRGsB_pt7z8f.jpg\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-transformations=\"f_auto\" data-version=\"1758867911\" data-responsive=\"1\" data-size=\"1200 677\" data-delivery=\"upload\" onload=\";window.CLDBind?CLDBind(this):null;\" data-cloudinary=\"lazy\" \/>The exercise, which wrapped up last month, involved collective training and offensive counter air activity at RAAF Bases Tindal and Darwin, including live weapon drops at the Delamere Air Weapons Range and coordination with the Surveillance and Control Training Unit at RAAF Base Williamtown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exercise, which wrapped up last month, involved collective training and offensive counter air activity at RAAF Bases Tindal and Darwin, including live weapon drops at the Delamere Air Weapons Range and coordination with the Surveillance and Control&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,312,470,471],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-291990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-aviation","category-defence","category-news","tag-australian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293533,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291990\/revisions\/293533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}