Defence assets provide rescue and relief

Recently, the news that set fingertips tingly, the silver lining around the orange, smoke-haze cloud that hangs over our head, is that some of our biggest defence assets have been called in to help with the action.The bushfires currently ravaging Australia will come as no surprise to readers. Since September in NSW, and December in Victoria and South Australia, bushfires have claimed lives and homes, razed through our flora and fauna, livestock and lifestyles.

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What happens to critical assets on decommissioning?

The HMAS Melbourne (III) was decommissioned on Saturday 26^th October, berthing at Garden Island, Sydney, for the last time. It was a poignant ceremony, especially for the two-hundred men and women who served aboard the ship.

The ship has over two decades of service to this nation. She was deployed on operations across the globe, including the Middle East eight times, and earning battle honours for her service in East Timor and the Persian Gulf¹.The ship’s motto is ‘she gathers strength as she goes’² which is as fine a motto as you’ll ever hear and, given her capability right to decommissioning, rings perfectly true.

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Showing off new assets in a race between a plane and a bike

In Gippsland, Victoria, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) got to test one of its newest assets, the Pilatus PC-21, in a race trail with a motorbike ridden by Wayne Gardner.

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Collins Class Life-cycle Regeneration

Imagine being able to silently slip through the deep and dark waters, way below where the ocean meets the surface. The stealth and the virtually undetectable nature of deep sea navigation is what life on a submarine is all about.

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