Defence Australia

Pacific Airshow 2026 🇦🇺

ADF personnel took to the sky to wow the crowd at the Pacific Air Show on the 📍 Gold Coast, Qld, this past weekend. On display were:
🪂 Australian Army's Red Berets
✈️ Royal Australian Air Force's F-35A Lightning II, C-130J Hercules & Roulettes

📷 LAC Campbell Latch

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Defence Australia

That's a wrap on ADFA Open Day 2026

The day was filled with military skills demonstrations, interactive displays, RAAF flypasts and Defence capability showcases across the maritime, land, air, space and cyber domains.

📷 Rodney Braithwaite

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Tigers in Malaysia 🇦🇺🇲🇾🇺🇸

Australian, Malaysian and US forces trained in Sabah for #KerisStrike26, building readiness and interoperability.

Read more ➡️ news.defence.gov.au/army/activity/2026-08-11/tiger…

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🏙️ Innovations enhance urban training.

Army’s new Dismounted Austere Shoot House (DASH) is delivering realistic urban live-fire training, helping infantry refine urban tactics, techniques and procedures, including close-quarters battle, method of entry and command and control. Combined with new training innovations, it’s building a force ready to operate with confidence in complex urban environments. 💥💪

➡️ news.defence.gov.au/army/activity/2026-08-12/innov…

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Sail. Sunset. Repeat. 🌊🌞💜

🖼️ HMAS Choules sailing off the coast of 📍 Sibolga, Indonesia.

📷 ABIS Taylor Johnson

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A first for Australian Army artillery.

High Mobility Artillery Rockets Systems (HIMARS) from 14th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery conducted live firing at Townsville Field Training Area during Exercise Pozieres Run, supporting the Integrated Force’s operational fires capability.

📸 WO2 Darren Tomlin

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Inserted. Positioned. Ready to strike.

Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, supported by aviation assets from 16th Aviation Brigade, conducted an air assault live fire activity during Exercise Septimus Strike to develop and validate the Australian Army’s growing air assault capability.

📸 PTE Cooper Boyce & PTE William McCormick

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🇦🇺 🚢 🇺🇸

The Royal Australian Navy's HMAS Canberra recently undertook force integration training with members of the United States Marines Corps assigned to Marine Rotational Force - Darwin (MRF-D).

MRF-D personnel observed flood response and casualty management drills, witnessing firsthand the teamwork and precision behind Canberra’s damage control capability.

📷 LEUT Peter Allen & LEUT Toni Dugdale

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Defence Australia

ADFA Open Day is taking place again this year on Saturday 15 August from 0900 to 1600.

With more than 70 interactive and static displays, visitors can get up close to Defence capability across the maritime, land, air, space and cyber domains.

Go along and learn more about ADFA and what a career in the ADF is all about.

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📷 MIDN Amelia Pothecary, OFFCDT Jamie Doran, OCDT Cooper Daniels, MIDN Gabriel Fernandez, MIDN Justin Nguyen & Jarrod Moreels

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Leaving the winter chill of WA behind, HMAS Perth arrived in 📍 Malaysia for the first port visit on her regional presence deployment in South-East Asia.

From sharing meals with Malaysian counterparts, to welcoming Royal Malaysian Navy cadets to their first time on board a navy ship, to getting in a game of golf ⛳, the visit highlighted the relationships that underpin the enduring maritime partnership between Australia and Malaysia. ⚓🇦🇺 🇲🇾

📷 LSIS Connor Morrison

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