Aircrew from the RAAF's No 1 and No 6 Squadron walk towards their aircraft at RAAF Base Darwin. Australia has upgraded its training to maintain the “air combat capability edge” of its F/A-18F and ...

UPGRADED HORNET: The Royal Australian Air Force received the last F/A-18 Hornet upgraded with Raytheon's APG-73 radar system, the company said last week. Raytheon delivered 71 APG-73 systems to ...

Australia formally retired the Hornet after more than 35 years of service and nearly 408,000 total flight hours. The Royal Australian Air Force officially retired the F/A-18A/B “Classic” Hornet during ...

The Royal Australian Air Force officially bid farewell to its fleet of F/A-18A/B Classic Hornets. The fighter jets have been deployed in various missions over the past decades since they've been in ...

The Royal Australian Air Force will be the first foreign operator of the advanced AIM-260A JATM air-to-air missile according ...

LONDON—A missing piece in Australia’s fighter inventory will be filled in the short term by extending the life of the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet for at least another decade and then afterward will ...

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has taken delivery of a single Boeing EA-18G Growler to replace an aircraft lost in a 2018 accident. “Defence formally accepted the replacement EA-18G Growler in ...

A Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has successfully launched the Lockheed Martin AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), amid concerns about the nation’s ...

This past weekend, the Riverfire “pyrotechnic extravaganza” that’s part of the annual Brisbane Festival dazzled spectators with fireworks and the impressive maneuvers of the Australian Air Force’s F/A ...

The Ukrainian ambassador to Australia, Vasyl Myrosnychenko, revealed to media early in June that Ukraine was studying the possibility of acquiring some or all of Australia’s 46 remaining FA-18A and ...