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- “We Who Are About to Die Salute You” | The Fall of Rabaul
- 12 Squadron RAAF History
- 12SQN Chinook Discussion
- 3 Squadron in WW2
- 49th Fighter Group In Darwin
- 50 years of the F-16
- 70 years of the Phantom
- 9 Squadron RAAF History 1925-1944
- 9 Squadron RAAF History Part 2 | The Iroquois
- A-37 Dragonfly
- A-4 Skyhawk
- A-7D | Precise & Revolutionary
- AC-130 Gunship: Origins, Upgrades, and Battlefield Dominance
- ADF Helicopters in Service
- Aermacchi MB-326H [A7]
- AIM-7 Sparrow: The Missile That Changed Air Combat
- AIM-9 Sidewinder: How one missile changed air combat
- Airco (de Havilland) DH.9 & DH.9A [A1 & A6]
- Australia’s First Action in the Pacific in World War II - A Valiant Catastrophe
- Australia’s Forgotten Aircraft Carriers
- Australian Spitfire Ace Pat Hughes
- Autonomous Force Protection
- Avro 504 [A3]
- Avro 707 & Vulcan: Britain’s Delta Wing Revolution
- AWACS - A Short History
- B-21 Raider
- B-24 Liberator [A72]
- B-36 Peacemaker
- BAC Strikemaster
- Back to the Future: Inside Australia’s Apache & Black Hawk Strategy
- Battle of Hamburg
- Battle of the Aces: Erich Hartmann vs Hans-Joachim Marseille
- Before the U-2 there was the Bell X-16
- Bell 47G Sioux in Australian Service
- Bell UH-1 Iroquois [A2]
- Bf 109 vs A6M Zero: Which Axis fighter was superior?
- Black Hawk Down Under
- Black Hawk Walkthrough
- Bleriot XI
- Bobby Gibbes | RAAF 3 Squadron | and the battles at El Alamein
- Boeing CH-47 Chinook
- Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet [A44]
- Boeing Wins Navy FA-XX Contract
- Bomber Crews Under Fire
- Bristol Beaufighter [A19]
- Bristol Boxkite
- Bristol Bulldog Mk.II [A12]
- Bristol Fighters
- CAC Sabre [A94]
- Cessna 180 Skywagon in Australian Service
- China's J-36 & J-50 - First Impressions
- China's new J-35
- China's new J-36
- Chinook | RAAF to Australian Army
- Clive Caldwell: Australia’s Top WWII Ace Who Took On Rommel and the Japanese
- Combat Tree | The system that made the F-4 the deadliest fighter
- Comparing the variants of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
- Countering Small UAS Threats
- Cruise Missiles
- de Havilland Vampire [A78] [A79]
- Deperdussin
- Desert Storm - First Strike
- Developing the VZ-9 Avrocar
- Douglas DC-2, DC-3, C-47 [A30]
- English Electric/GAF Canberra [A84]
- Every Apollo Mission
- Evolution of aircraft camouflage
- Evolution of the Huey
- Exploring the Limits of Speed
- F-100 Super Sabre
- F-105 Thud – Thunder in the Skies
- F-111 in Vietnam | COMBAT LANCER
- F-111 Walkaround (HARS Museum)
- F-14 tomcats in Vietnam
- F-15 ACTIVE
- F-15 ASAT Program
- F-15N | the forgotten 'Sea Eagle'
- F-16XL
- F-18 HARV
- F-18L: the forgotten land-based Hornet
- F-47 Unveiled
- F-4X Super Phantom
- F-5: The best dogfighter of its time?
- F/A-18 Walkaround with Ron Haack at Fighter World
- F4F Wildcat vs A6M Zero
- F4U Corsair vs F6F Hellcat | Which was the better fighter?
- Fairey IIID [A10]
- Focke-Wulf Ta 152 - High Altitude Interceptor
- General Dynamics F-111 [A8]
- Getting Into The Swing: Developing the Bell X-5 & Convair X-6
- Gloster Javelin | England's Unconventional Interceptor
- Gloster Meteor [A77]
- Grumman S-2G Tracker
- Grumman X-29
- Grumman's F-11 Tiger - The Forgotten Fighter of the 1950s
- HAL AMCA - India's 5th Gen Aircraft
- Handley Page O/400 in Australian Service
- Home Made Wings | Australian Military Aircraft Manufacturing
- How B-2s at Diego Garcia Change Everything
- How Good is Iran's Air Power?
- How good is Venezuela's Air Force?
- How good was the P-80 Shooting Star?
- How Iran strapped SAMs to F-14 Tomcats
- How the Bf 109 saved Israel
- How the F-102 Became a Night Fighter in Vietnam
- Indian vs Pakistani Air Power
- Inventing the Space Shuttle
- Israeli F4 vs North Korean MiGs
- J-20 China's Answer to the F-22
- Kawasaki Ki-61 'Tony' - Japan's answer to the Bf 109
- KF-21 Boramae
- Leyburn Airfield and Z Special Force
- Life of a Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot | Oskar Ziesig
- LIMA SITE 85: How a Huey shot down a plane
- Lockheed Hercules [A97]
- Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II [A35]
- Lockheed P2V Neptune [A89]
- Lost Over Dunkirk | A Heroic Tale of a Spitfire Ace
- LYNX | Rhodesia's deadly Cessna
- McDonnell Douglas F4-E Phantom II (RAAF )[A69]
- McDonnell Douglas Hornet [A21]
- ME 262: Strange & Deadly variants
- Meteor vs Me 262
- MiG 1.44 - Russia's forgotten next gen fighter
- Mirage 4000: France’s Forgotten Interceptor
- Mirage III Walkaround with Ron Haack at Fighter World
- Multiple Kill Vehicle
- Nazi Jet Bombers of WW2
- Night Stalkers | Helicopters of the 160th SOAR
- North American/CAC Mustang [A68]
- Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton [A57]
- OPERATION NILE: the forgotten special ops raid in Afghanistan
- Operation Okra
- Operation Orchard | The Syrian nuclear reactor strike
- Orbital Bombers
- P-51 Mustang vs P-47 Thunderbolt: Best US fighter in Europe?
- P3 Orion [A9]
- RAAF Mirage IIIO [A3]
- Rhodesian Bush War
- Rocket-Powered C-130
- Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 [A2]
- Russian Su-27 vs Ukrainian Su-27
- SAAB Jets
- Short Sunderland [A26]
- Sikorsky S-70 Black Hawk
- Sixth-Generation Air Power
- Smart + Fast | Australian Autonomous & Hypersonic Weapons Development
- Sopwith Camel
- Sopwith Pup[A4]
- South Africa’s Forgotten Air Wars
- SR71 Over Vietnam
- Staying Aloft | 100 years of in-flight refuelling
- Su-25 The Russian Warthog
- SU-30 - Russia’s Best Jet?
- Supermarine Seagull III [A9]
- Supermarine Southampton I [A11]
- Supermarine Spitfire [A58]
- Supermarine Walrus (Seagull V) [A2]
- Swift to Destroy: 77 Squadron in Korea (Full Documentary)
- The A-16 | Can a Viper turn into a Warthog?
- The AGM-65 Maverick
- The Air War Over Malaya: The RAAF & Allies’ “Worst Disaster”
- The B-17 in Europe during WWII
- The B-21 Question: Why Australia Didn’t Buy America’s Most Advanced Bomber
- The Battle at Milne Bay - RAAF Memories Of A Pivotal WWII Battle
- The Dassault Rafale
- The Defence of Port Moresby
- The Doomsday Planes
- The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II – Unstoppable Warthog
- The Forgotten F-20 Tigershark
- The forgotten F-22 Raptor Stealth Bomber
- The forgotten Soviet VTOL jets
- The Forgotten Tiny Boeing 737 Jet That Revolutionized Air Travel Forever!
- The German U-Boat Autogiro
- The Gulf of Sidra Incident
- The Iranian Drone Problem
- The J-16 | Is it the best Flanker?
- The Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne | The Rise of the Attack Helicopter
- The Lost Potential of the Tomcat
- The MiG that flew itself to the West
- The Mind of the Kamikaze
- The Phantom F-4E in Australian Service
- The Psychology of the Fighter Pilot
- The Real Top Guns of Iran
- The Rockwell B-1A
- The Soviet Space Shuttle Buran
- The Unrealized Potential of the MiG-29
- The X-Factor
- The Yak-28 | Fast & Terrifying
- Through the Sound Barrier
- Top Fighter Squadrons of WWII
- Top Vietnam War Aces
- TSR2: the British F-111
- Turkey's TF Kaan
- Vampire: Britain's strangest jet
- VENOM-AFT - No More Pilots
- Vertical Ambition: The Harrier and the History of V/STOL Combat Aviation
- Viper Zero: Japan's Mighty F-2 Fighter
- Vultee A-31 Vengeance [A27]
- Was the YF-23 superior to the F-22?
- Why Australia needed the F-111
- Why the F-117 Has Returned
- Why the KF-21 is a game changer
- Why this bomb is used everywhere | The Mark 80 Family
- Why was the A-5 Vigilante forgotten?
- X-59
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Boeing Wins Navy FA-XX Contract
Boeing has been announced as the winner of the US Navy's 6-generation fighter, aka FA-XX. This now means that Boeing will produce the USAF F-47 and the Navy's FA-XX, effectively cornering the market for US sixth-gen fighter production. What does this mean for Lockheed...
F-111 in Vietnam | COMBAT LANCER
In 1968, six F-111As were sent to Thailand for Combat Lancer. - the aircraft’s first combat deployment and a key test of its new low-level strike capabilities. The F-111s flew at night, in poor weather, and without visual contact with their targets, yet still showed...
A-37 Dragonfly
The Cessna A-37 Dragonfly earned a reputation as one of the most effective close-support and counter-insurgency aircraft of the Vietnam war. From a small jet trainer, the “Super Tweet” was transformed into a heavily armed CAS aircraft capable of carrying thousands of...
F-15N | the forgotten ‘Sea Eagle’
In the early 1970s, McDonnell Douglas proposed a carrier-based version of the F-15 for the US Navy. Known as the F-15N, it promised extraordinary speed, a lighter airframe, and more advanced avionics. But adapting the Eagle for carrier operations meant solving one...
The Defence of Port Moresby
In our continuing series on RAAF operations, we take a look at the defence of Port Moresby. In 1942, Port Moresby stood between the Japanese advance and Australia’s north-eastern approaches. After the fall of Rabaul, the town came under relentless air attacks and...
LYNX | Rhodesia’s deadly Cessna
In the unforgiving skies of the Rhodesian Bush War, an unlikely aircraft emerged as one of the most effective weapons of the conflict. The Lynx—an improvised, heavily armed version of the Cessna Skymaster—combined simplicity, adaptability, and raw firepower to deliver...
Why Australia needed the F-111
Australia's decision to acquire the F-111 wasn't driven by prestige—it was born from necessity. We explore the strategic realities that shaped one of the RAAF's most important procurement decisions. With the rise of Cold War tensions in Southeast Asia and Indonesia's...
A-7D | Precise & Revolutionary
The A-7D Corsair II was never intended to become one of the U.S. Air Force's greatest strike aircraft. Originally acquired as a stopgap solution during the Vietnam War, it evolved into arguably the most accurate conventional attack aircraft of the conflict. Equipped...
The AGM-65 Maverick
The AGM-65 Maverick transformed air-to-ground warfare. Developed during the Vietnam War to replace the flawed AGM-12 Bullpup, it became one of the world's first truly effective fire-and-forget precision-guided missiles. We explore the Maverick's origins, its...
OPERATION NILE: the forgotten special ops raid in Afghanistan
Operation Nile (July 9-10, 2006) was a daring preemptive strike on Taliban leadership in the Chora Valley north of Tarin Kowt. The op was executed by Canada's elite Joint Task Force 2, Australian Delta Commando Company 4RAR, Afghan National Security Forces, two...