John Fedup
The Bunker Group
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Royal Australian Air Force [RAAF] News, Discussions and Updates
Redlands18
Well-Known Member
A huge step forward for Australia’s Poseidon fleet, the tests were conducted over 7 flights off the Coast of Queensland
sorry but the link won’t go straight to the article for some reason
sorry but the link won’t go straight to the article for some reason
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Joe Black
Active Member
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Not hard to imagine we will soon see manned and unmanned teaming concept coming up with these Loyal Wingman drones. I can see each carrying both ISR payload as well as even weapons. If each LW drone can carry a small AESA radar and 2 to 3 AIM-120s and/or couple of SDBs, you have an F-35 acting as the conductor and orchestrates the mission with 3 other LW drones, this would be a real game changer and force multiplier.
Initial reports coming through that Northrop Grumman has started construction for the RAAF's first MQ-4C Triton
Really liking this project and what it will bring in conjunction with "Other" assets both current and future, this will bring a lot to the table and be a true force multiplier across numerous areas of Defence.
www.naval-technology.com
Cheers
Really liking this project and what it will bring in conjunction with "Other" assets both current and future, this will bring a lot to the table and be a true force multiplier across numerous areas of Defence.
Northrop Grumman starts construction of Australia’s first MQ-4C Triton
Northrop Grumman has commenced the construction process for Australia’s first MQ-4C Triton an unmanned maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft.
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the road runner
Active Member
30 JSF are now in Australia. With 9 Being ferried from Luke AFB in Arizona to RAAF base Williamtown
The Fleet of JSF is growing in strength
The Fleet of JSF is growing in strength
Boeing recently completed flight tests with five high-performance surrogate jets Operating Autonomously in a team (Read as SWARM) at the new $14.5 million Queensland Drone Flight Test Range.
Lift-off for Cloncurry drone flight testing
Boeing Flies Five Autonomous Jet swarm at Cloncurry QLD, (YouTube) watch at the end for swarm flight paths
Cloncurry UAS Flight Test Range (Fact Sheet PDF)
The new facility, gives users access to a
very cool stuff
Lift-off for Cloncurry drone flight testing
Boeing Flies Five Autonomous Jet swarm at Cloncurry QLD, (YouTube) watch at the end for swarm flight paths
Cloncurry UAS Flight Test Range (Fact Sheet PDF)
The new facility, gives users access to a
- 20-metre by 20-metre hangar,
- a 2-kilometre runway,
- state-of-the-art monitoring equipment,
- surveillance radar,
- an air conditioned workshop and
- supporting amenities.
very cool stuff
MARKMILES77
Active Member
Two pilots have ejected from a SuperHornet despite it never leaving the ground.
Video available at ABC.
www.abc.net.au
Video available at ABC.
$75 million Super Hornet hits runway in aborted take-off at RAAF Base
Witnesses have told the ABC they saw pilots eject from a F/A-18F Super Hornet as it was about to take off from RAAF Base Amberley.
www.abc.net.au
MARKMILES77
Active Member
Video of pilots landing and Super Hornet rolling at slow speed down the runway. Will be intersting to see why they ejected?
No obvious reason why ejection was required.
7news.com.au
No obvious reason why ejection was required.
Pilots forced to EJECT as military jet emergency unfolds at RAAF base
The major incident involved a Super Hornet at an air force base in Queensland.
7news.com.au
Redlands18
Well-Known Member
2nd incident involving a RAAF SHORNET/GROWLER on the Ground, at least this time the Aircraft looks like its salvageable.Video of pilots landing and Super Hornet rolling at slow speed down the runway. Will be intersting to see why they ejected?
No obvious reason why ejection was required.
Pilots forced to EJECT as military jet emergency unfolds at RAAF base
The major incident involved a Super Hornet at an air force base in Queensland.
Engine failure during T/O?
Superhornet Growler doesn't make a good paddock basher.
Report of engine issue before ejection. Yeh, I can understand why you would eject if you thought your engine was going to catch fire or explode while powering for take off.
The USN flys these off carriers? The other one had issues at take off.
Aircraft does look salvageable thankfully, and no appears to be too hurt (although that eject landing wasn't particularly soft). Nose gear crumpled, but rested on the drop tank, new canopy and a couple of new seats and shes good to go!
Report of engine issue before ejection. Yeh, I can understand why you would eject if you thought your engine was going to catch fire or explode while powering for take off.
The USN flys these off carriers? The other one had issues at take off.
Aircraft does look salvageable thankfully, and no appears to be too hurt (although that eject landing wasn't particularly soft). Nose gear crumpled, but rested on the drop tank, new canopy and a couple of new seats and shes good to go!
Redlands18
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Good to see that the crew are ok.
Speaking of Shornets and Growlers, there is US research out showing that the Growlers can be heard 33 m / 100 ft below the surface in seawater when they are taking off. The newspaper article implies that this is somewhat surprising, however it has been known for years that submerged subs can hear low flying aircraft.
www.seattletimes.com
Speaking of Shornets and Growlers, there is US research out showing that the Growlers can be heard 33 m / 100 ft below the surface in seawater when they are taking off. The newspaper article implies that this is somewhat surprising, however it has been known for years that submerged subs can hear low flying aircraft.
Navy Growler jet noise loud enough to reach orca pods even 100 feet underwater, new research shows
The noise of Navy Growler jet training flights even 100 feet underwater is louder than levels made by vessels and noisy enough to force orcas to call louder to be heard and disrupt feeding. A new paper looked at jet...
www.seattletimes.com
cdxbow
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That's 2 out of 36 craft (one growler, one SH) over ten years. How does that compare to the legacy hornets?AA is reporting that the Aircraft was about 200m into its take-off run and Eyewitnesses are reporting smoke billowing from the Engine before the crew ejected.Australian Aviation – Australia's Leading News Source in Aviation
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John Newman
The Bunker Group
The answer to that is, how long is a piece of string? There really isn’t a simple answer, it’s not comparing apples with apples.
The Classic fleet started entering service in 1985, 35 years ago, and lost 4 (of 75) airframes early on, but it doesn’t start and end there.
There has been other incidents, a couple of in flight collisions (one airframe lost), etc.
ADF Serials - F/A-18A&B Hornet
www.adf-serials.com.au
As for the Super/Growler fleets (36 airframes), started entering service 10 years ago, one Growler lost, one Super damaged yesterday.
The only way to get an accurate answer would be to know fleet flight hours, aircraft numbers and do some maths, info I would assume only the RAAF has access to.
Anyway, I think Classic, Super and Growler have been pretty reliable with low loss/accident rate compared to the aircraft they replaced, eg, Mirage and F-111.
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From this angle it looks like a Batmobile.
John Newman
The Bunker Group
I agree she looks like she’ll fly again, the front strut appeared to have ended up in the ditch, rather than collapsing, but I think there will be more than just the seats and a new canopy needed.
Apart from those items, the two areas I’d imagine needs attention is the engine bay and the cockpit.
If it was one or both engines that failed, there is potential for damage to the bay from components that may have ejected themselves from the engine casing.
As for the cockpit, I would image that when the rockets ignited to launch the seats, the instruments and wiring would have been BBQ’d in the process.
Yes she’ll fly again, but it will probably take a bit of time, effort and dollars too.
A couple of rockets blasted out of the cockpit. I wonder how much damage that did. There seemed to be quite a bit of scorching outside the canopy and it looked like some smoke coming out of it as well. Perhaps it is salvageable but whether it is worth repairing could depend on the longer term plans for the fleet.
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