RAAF

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During the three-week multilateral exercise, 85 aircraft are expected to fly 1,400 missions across three islands and six airfields.

The realistic combat training exercise sports nearly 2,000 participants from 30 U.S. and Allied units, including the Royal Australian Air Force.

A RAAF KC-30A conducted air-to-air clearance trials with U.S. Air Force RC-135 and A-10C Thunderbolt II airframes.

The U.S. Air Force is considering Boeing Australia’s MQ-28 Ghost Bat drone as part of the service’s gameplan to team an unmanned platform with the forthcoming Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter.

The U.S. Air Force stealth bombers flew to Royal Australian Air Force Base Amberley for training and strategic threat deterrence missions.

A Chinese fighter jet “cut across the nose” of an Australian P-8 surveillance aircraft and released chaff, which was sucked into its engines, according to Australian defense officials.