The visit to RAAF Base East Sale, hosted by No. 1 Flying Training School, showcased significant changes to the Air Force’s training pipeline since Australian Women Pilots’ Association members last toured the facility in 2022.

It has three branches: the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Australian Army and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The ADF has a strength of just over 89,000 personnel and is supported by the Department of Defence and several other civilian agencies.

He said the Royal Australian Air Force will send an E7A Wedgetail surveillance aircraft and supporting personnel to “protect and secure airspace above the Gulf” for the next four weeks, and help the region with its “collective self-defence”.

Australia is deploying an E-7A Wedgetail surveillance aircraft and 85 RAAF personnel to the UAE, also supplying air-to-air missiles amid Middle East conflict

An Australian defence analyst who warned of Australia’s precarious fuel supply problem more than a decade ago says politicians were told to “keep quiet” about the vulnerability and focus on election issues.

A Chinese fighter jet and a Royal Australian Air Force maritime patrol aircraft had an “unsafe and unprofessional” interaction as the two operated over the waters of the South China Sea, Canberra officials said Monday. A People’s Liberation Army Air ...