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The Airbus-based KC-30 multi-role tanker has become a refuelling buddy for the US Air Force’s brutally efficient A-10C Thunderbolt II.

Defence has throttled up efforts to keep local jobs, with the Boeing deal keeping a dedicated headcount of more than 350 people at Amberley.

Camo netting is nothing new. Designing the palette … that’s a different story. Aussie F-35s get new, designer shade cloth to keep cool.

The RAAF has been on a strategic regional catwalk tour on the home stretch show after playing to crowds in Japan.

Two-star Hercules pilot Darren Goldie is at the ready as the national agency and critical industry cat-herder in chief.

The RAAF’s 9 Squadron is being prepped to fly the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton remotely piloted aircraft system on surveillance operations.

The RAAF can now air refuel the frontline of Japan’s air combat forces, after a month-long series of exercises.

A 12-person Australian rapid assessment team has reached Port Vila, Vanuatu, in the wake of last week’s tropical cyclones Judy and Kevin.

There are refreshed eyes in the sky looking for DPRK sanction busters as the rogue state turns to ransomware and crypto to turn a shady buck.

Deployment follows request from Turkish government for search-and-rescue and emergency medical teams.

The defence minister and PM want Australia to be able to hold a long-range adversary at risk. Enter the B-21? Slow your roll…

Australia has sent F-35As to Singapore for their military ‘debut’, with the city-state part of training to make air forces work together.

The first of Australia’s remotely piloted long-range endurance MQ-4C surveillance aircraft, dubbed ‘Triton’, has been officially launched.

A small specialist medical team from Australia has arrived in the Solomon Islands to provide support to fight a growing coronavirus outbreak.