Defence

  • Check-up for cyclone-hit airfields

    Check-up for cyclone-hit airfields

    A FOUR-member Combat Control Team recently carried out airfield surveys in New Zealand after the landing strips were affected by Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle in February.…

  • Spartan joins huge multi-national exercise

    Spartan joins huge multi-national exercise

    AUSTRALIA recently wrapped up its involvement in Exercise Croix Du Sud after working with 19 nations to prepare for humanitarian and disaster relief missions. The…

  • Weapons deal brings dozens of jobs

    Weapons deal brings dozens of jobs

    Dozens of local jobs will be created following an announcement that a Redbank factory has landed the $180 million deal to build antimissile ‘soft kill’…

  • Help moves in for veterans

    Help moves in for veterans

    HEALTH services for Ipswich veterans and their families have been boosted with the opening of a Mates4Mates Family Recovery Centre on Friday. The centre, located…

  • First Boxer military vehicle under production

    First Boxer military vehicle under production

    PREMIER Annastacia Palaszczuk and Deputy Premier Steven Miles were in Redbank on Monday to see the first Queensland made Boxer CRV military vehicles roll through…

  • New exhibition takes flight

    New exhibition takes flight

    THE first glimpse of the new galleries at the Australian War Memorial has revealed an Australian Chinook as one of the new items visitors will…

  • Hornets set to roar over city skies

    Hornets set to roar over city skies

    LOOK to the sky tomorrow as up to 10 F/A-18F Super Hornets conduct low level approaches into RAAF Base Amberley. The Super Hornets from 82WG…

  • RAAF Amberley in WA floods rescue mission

    RAAF Amberley in WA floods rescue mission

    AIRCRAFT and personnel from RAAF Base Amberley joined the mission to help in the massive rescue efforts in Western Australia.  As floodwaters were receding,…

  • Aviators put to test in mock toxic attacks

    Aviators put to test in mock toxic attacks

    COMBAT Support Group aviators took training to the airfield last month, to continue development of their chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defence capability during Exercise…

  • Christmas drop for West Pacific remote communities

    Christmas drop for West Pacific remote communities

    CHRISTMAS has come early for remote communities in the West Pacific as Australia has begun to deliver 200kg bundles of goodwill during its Operation Christmas…

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