royal australian air force

Watch: Cockpit video of a C-17 flying low between skyscrapers

The Royal Australian Air Force is no stranger to dramatic displays of their low-flying prowess over cities like Brisbane, often drawing headlines the world over with the spectacular images and videos captured by awe-struck spectators. However, until now, only a precious few aviators have seen what it looks like inside the cockpit of these aircraft […]

Forget fireworks: Watch this C-130 light up the sky over the Sydney Opera House

There are two surefire ways to gather a crowd and get them looking at the sky: one’s an air show and the other is fireworks. Unless you’re the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), that is–they’ve combined both into one hell of a light show. On January 26th, as the nation gathered to celebrate Australia Day, […]

In Defense Of The F-35 Lightning II: Who’s Right?

FighterSweep Fans, this is the question in the back of many an intelligent mind as it applies to the F-35 Lightning II: who’s right? We have the crowd eager to grab torches and pitchforks anytime the subject is brought up, largely because of the ongoing debate about the JSF’s capabilities in CAS versus those of […]

COPE NORTH 2016 Concludes In Pacific

Editor’s Note: Although Exercise COPE NORTH 2016 just concluded, this will give you an idea of the DLOs (designated learning objectives) for the nations participating, as well as the large scope. Andersen Air Force Base on the Island of Guam was the host facility for the PACific Air Forces (PACAF) Large Force Employment exercise, giving […]

Lockheed-Martin: Partners Must Decide On F-35 Block Buy

Editor’s Note: All twelve partner nations are doing their best to make their dollars stretch as far as they can, so that means being smart with the timing of their acquisitions, as well as the rate at which they procure them. It’s good news for Lockheed-Martin, but potentially bad timing for some nations that aren’t […]

RAAF Participating in Red Flag 16-1!

Editor’s Note: Red Flag Period 16-1 is underway at Nellis Air Force Base outside of Las Vegas, and we’re excited to be attending the exercise next week. It’s an impressive lineup as far as the participants go, and noteworthy is the presence of the Royal Australian Air Force’s F/A-18F Super Hornets. The RAAF has a […]

Birth Of A Super Hornet: First Australian F/A-18F

Happy Sunday, FighterSweep Fans! Like many of you, I built a lot of model airplanes as a kid, and while I may have left that hobby behind decades ago, the interest in how things go together remains. Thanks to Boeing, we have the opportunity to see the construction of the very first Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18F Super Hornet […]

Burner Friday: RAAF F-111C Aardvark

Burner Friday is upon us, FighterSweep Fans!  That means it is time for our weekly contribution to the FighterSweep afterburner photo album, and we hope you enjoy this one from the annals of Red Flag history, and courtesy of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)! For this week’s edition, we look back to February of 2009, when the […]