The disbandment of 12 Squadron truly marked the end of an era. The Chinooks - with other helicopters - were transferred from the Royal Australian Air Force to the Australian Army. This was a long time ...
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12 Squadron Ground Crew Technical Discussion

We sit down with four ex-12 Squadron ground crew to talk about the maintenance of the Chinook when it was operating with the RAAF.
San Francisco’s Fleet Week will be missing a key attraction this month after the Blue Angels were officially grounded. The legendary squadron’s air show was “paused” thanks to the ongoing federal ...
A deactivated World War II-era fighter squadron in South Korea was given new life and equipped with MQ-9 Reaper drones.
President Prabowo Subianto on Thursday conferred honorary ranks on 11 retired Indonesian Military (TNI) officers, including Deputy Defense Minister Donny ...
Lockheed Martin received a more than $12.5 billion contract modification to build 296 F-35s in Lots 18 and 19, the Defense Department said on Monday.
The significant airfield repair and upgrade work might support frontline fighters in the future, as the U.S. develops distributed basing to counter China ...
It was called Operation Chastise but history remembers it as the Dambusters raid, the famed Royal Air Force mission in May 1943 targeting German dams in the Ruhr Valley flown by 19 English Lancaster ...
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A local tragedy largely forgotten

In the early hours of July 7, 1943, a group of fishermen witnessed flames in the night sky on the Airth Road. Unbeknownst to them at the time, this was seconds before a catastrophic accident that clai ...
New U.S. Air Force HH-60W Jolly Green II "Whiskey" helicopters are replacing the wing's decades-old Pave Hawks. The new helicopters feature advanced technology, including digital cockpits and ...
General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy, visited the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier as it operated in the North Sea, complete with a ...
At 19, he was one of the youngest pilots in the all-Black unit to see combat in World War II. “I used to say the Army’s No. 1 job was segregation,” he said. “Winning the war was No. 2.” ...