The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has worked to provide allies with the air-to-air refuelling capabilities offered by its seven Airbus Defence & Space A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transports (MRTTs).

Australia has lodged an objection after a People's Liberation Army fighter deployed flares close to a RAAF jet. Separately, three PLA vessels were seen off the north-east coast of Australia ...

“What’s important, though, is that the proximity of the J-16 was so close that there’s no way you could have been able to ensure that the flares did not hit the [RAAF] P-8,” Defence ...

The RAAF’s (Royal Australian Air Force) MC-55A Peregrine EW/SIGINT (Electronic Warfare/Signal Intelligence) appears to have commenced its second test flight campaign, as shown by the newly ...

Last year, the United States Air Force pressed “pause” on its Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, citing costs and future capabilities of the sixth-generation manned aircraft that ...

So, too, can artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that the Air Force wants to place in their proposed Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter. Alas, it seems that the news out of Beijing ...

A Royal Australian Air Force F-35A Lightning II and French Navy Rafale M taxi out for a sortie at RAAF Base Darwin for Exercise Rastaban 25. (Image: SGT David Gibbs) The RAAF has trained its F-35A ...

The NGAD program is nearing nine months of pause Powerful voices are calling for radical change The Air Force is considering a wide array of new approaches to air superiority But then the Air ...

The NGAD’s Basics The latest comes to us from a January 27, 2025, article in Breaking Defense by Valeria Insinna titled “EXCLUSIVE: New SASC chair sets sight on $200B defense boost, major ...

The Debrief: Hypersonic Bomber Emerges As Office’s Next Goal After NGAD is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is ...

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(Image: Northrop Grumman) Northrop Grumman has completed the testing of the RAAF’s third MQ-4C Triton. The Australian government has already announced its intention to purchase four of the ...