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Cheers!

This morning, practice for a family day display on Friday at the base.

@@aviationphotographydigestthank you!!

There's no audio recorded on the slow motion segments.

@@aviationphotographydigest sorry i didnt realise it was slowmo

909thARS providing tanker support to the B-2's

Yep, this is a montage of footage from past exercises, the history of Ex Pitch Black will be highlighted in an upcoming article on our website soon.

Articles will be on our website, Video interviews on YT and live videos on social media platforms

The AI {computer } don't care, synthetic aperture radar, and all the other sensors it doesn't need a human pilot... Look up global hawk...that is all it is, a repainted 20 yr old outdated none weaponized unit for watching birds migration.

Don’t need any more than 2 up conducting patrols at any one time, these things can stay airborne long enough to do a full sweep of the entire coastlines.

The last military aircraft type we built here was the MRH90 Taipan fleet. How’d that go?

@@geoffbuttsworthdon’t think we built the taipan. They were bought new off the shelf from NHI/Airbus in Europe

@@Buddy89538 Nope. Built in Pinkenba in Brisbane

Somewhere between 4 and 7, we don’t know for sure.

It flew from California

Technically it’s a new variant. This model only became operational to the US Navy in 2020. Hardly old technology

BS

MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial system ( no it is not a drone!). Developed from Global Hawk. Big difference is Triton can descend and climb on station whereas Global Hawk stays at altitude.

@@KevinSmith-yo8qb thank you

Via Wake Island. Its presumed flight originated from Palmdale where they are being manufactured.

No it won't, it will down for maintenance every other day. And now it's Aussie it won't work weekends nor public and state holidays and will want to go home to see family in the states for Xmas.

So we can it second hand with all the airframe's life hours spent, of course still a bargain at full price NOT.

Considering the US Navy only established its operational capability in May 2020 it definitely isn’t “old” as you’re insinuating. The base design is off the Global Hawk which has been in service for over a decade but this variant of the MQ4C is pretty brand new. So it wasn’t a long wait at all to get a fully mission capable and ready platform

Ask your state government about that. This is used for maritime surveillance and reconnaissance for the commonwealth

This is what the government should invest in for the fire season. Video to Sinab pod: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n56knIqerqmLa7Msi=vDTx7o4M8MpK0BPd

@@aviationphotographydigest this has some great promise for real time data in any developing situation for relatively dare I say low cost….would be invaluable for fire control as an incident controller I would love access to real time information. Main issue I see is available loiter time, with the MQ-4 it can just record images over an extended time span, if a fire develops then the pre fire footage can be reviewed to determine if any suspicious vehicles were in the area, the potential field of view is immense and potentially any suspect vehicle could be followed, this would be a different scenario aimed at prosecution rather than fire control, both systems are worthwhile value add and should be considered. Love the old Cessna would be a personal choice for me…….!

You already told him when you bought a smartphone, regardless of brand.

RAAF Tindal, NT

Watching Xi Jingpingpong's wife taking a bath.

@@AwesomeSauce81 HAHAHAHA 😂

I forget, how many years late are they?

'Off',. or just 'idle', given it's also be the power source to turn the onboard electirical generator.

No. Surveillance only

That's a waste of money then. Hopefully it can be converted to a wpn carry drone in short time.

@@Leftyintollerablec’mon mate. You can do better. That’s like wanting our Wedtails to carry ordnance. Unique roles for unique platforms.

@@Leftyintollerable Derp.

It’s the unarmed version because it’s for maritime surveillance aka looking for boat people and illegal fishing

2. One to monitor take off, the other to monitor landing. Neither would have touched the controls.

AI Bot not joking it's just repainted global hawk. One landed in Amberley in 2010ish or earlier full auto.

@@PiDsPagePrototypes I would hope some one was monitoring the flight and keeping separation from other aircraft.

@@oldged3211 It fly's above commercial traffic, the only thing that it needs to avoid is a U-2

@@PiDsPagePrototypes OK, thanks for the reply. Amazing aircraft. We need a few of these for our northern coastal waters patrolling for illegal fishing boats and boat immigrants. So, is the idea to have a remote pilot for take off and landing, meaning get them from the ground, through traffic to their 50,000 feet cruise and back again? Do they have cameras to aid take off/landing?

Foreign

@@megcollis9169 Maybe the Government should put money towards education, lol.

Properly spent, Foreign Aid packages reduce the need for Military spending, because you help your neighbours step up to become your equals and allies, meaning thier own people want to stay where they are rather then needing to find somewhere better. Of course, that good intention has to dodge corruption and funds redirection.

Remember all the aid given to afghanistan money well spent.

If we don’t pay foreign aid, the Chinese will. The Solomon Islands will not be the last to sell access to ports