SECDET IRAQ

The Baghdad based 2RAR Security Detachment (SECDET XV) is the only remaining ADF manoeuvre unit left in Iraq........

NELLIS IRAQ

The RAAF deployed its venerable F-111 fighter bombers to Nellis AFB near Las Vegas in the USA for their final participation in Ex Red Flag 09-3 ........

TIMOR BATTLE GROUP

Australian and New Zealand operations in Timor Leste remain focused on the passage of responsibility to the
F-FDTL and the PNTL........

COIN OPS URUZGAN

Australia is expanding its role in Afghanistan as the MRTF and SOTG encounter plenty of hostile fire in the river valleys of Uruzgan includes ops in Kakarak, Kajaki in Helmand and the Baluchi Pass .......

SIEV INTERCEPTIONS

The boat people are back in big numbers across the northern maritime approaches activating the largest Border Protection Command response in years. Includes the SIEV exposion........

OTHER STORIES:
DEFENCE WHITE PAPER 2009, ADF WITHDRAWS FROM US NAVY BAMS PROJECT, LHD CONSTRUCTION BEGINS, FIRST F/A-18F FLIES IN JULY, DUTCH CIED BUSHMASTER, METAL STORM MODULAR WEAPONS, RAAF DHC4 CARIBOUS TO RETIRE, M-113AS4 UPGRADE PRODUCTION ISSUES, RNZN IPVs COMMISSIONED, HORNET OVER THE SHOULDER ASRAAM KILL.