Pitch Black 2024 - An Airbus original documentary

140 aircraft. 20 nations. 4,400 military personnel.
That was exercise Pitch Black 2024 in Australia.
Organised biannually by the Royal Australian Air Force since 1981, Pitch Black is one of the largest military air exercises in the world, featuring Airbus-built state-of-the-art military aircraft like #A400M, #Eurofighter and #A330MRTT.
Hear from the participating Air Forces about the challenges, the manoeuvres, the combat scenarios - and why exercises like Pitch Black 2024 are now more important than ever.
To learn more, check out these stories:
➡️ Pacific Skies 24: How Airbus serves air forces around the world: www.airbus.com...
➡️ Pitch Black 24 - Why the European air forces are Down Under: www.airbus.com...
➡️ Pitch Black 24: Logistics and maintenance as backbone of a seamless military exercise: www.airbus.com...
➡️ French A400M in Pitch Black: flying a few feet off the ground: www.airbus.com...
➡️ Pitch Black 24 - Eurofighter aircraft defend territory from enemy attack: www.airbus.com...

[@jorge9717]

Super cool video 👍

[@ptonpc]

Beautiful aircraft.

[@ShamblesX]

I was fine with the Spanish & German, but that Aussie LtCol stumped me 😂

[@fryaduck]

He's a Wing Commander not a LtCol

[@nickj1663]

Would be interesting to see how the Typhoons went against the RAAF F-35s in Air to air BVR

[@DistantThunder89]

Uhhhh that A400M was waaay lower than 300 feet AGL in that footage. That was true, nap-of-the-earth flying -- IN A CARGO AIRCRAFT lmao. holy shit

[@p.c.9714]

8:50 Australian Tiger Farewell (America 1 / Europe 0) 🙄

[@ericchen8795]

so many typhoons but No Rafael ?

[@stgoldshaka]

An Airbus documentary and they will not say that an Italian typhoon has been lost. 🤔

[@smith5312]

The RAAF, thank you for edit shawnc5188, does not have the rank of Lieutenant Colonel 🤦

[@shawnc5188]

No, the Royal Australian Football Federation doesn’t. 🤦‍♂️

[@smith5312]

@@shawnc5188 🤦

[@smith5312]

@@shawnc5188 🤦 check edit. 👍

[@jdav8193]

He’s a Wing Commander (equivalent to Lt Col in a lot of other militaries so I sort of see what they did there).

[@jonathanbaincosmologyvideo3868]

nice use of the slomo

[@ronlucock3702]

I can appreciate Airbus extolling the Eurofighter as an awesome platform. However they conveniently left out that an Italian Eurofighter was the only aircraft lost in the 2-week exercise.

[@4Sp23]

Do you have sources why this aircraft crashed? Or do you just assume there was a problem with the aircraft? Also why would Airbus talk about a lost aircraft of the Italian Airforce, that would feel very misplaced in this video, don't you think?

[@NightRye_]

@@4Sp23 www.defence.gov.au/news-events/releases/2024-07-24/statement-exercise-pitch-black-incident Just says unknown issue. Which means we will probably never know.

[@De_cool_dude]

​@@4Sp23airbus makes the Eurofighter

[@ronlucock3702]

@@4Sp23 I don't argue with what you say, I'm just making the point that marketing can be very one-sided.

[@4Sp23]

@@De_cool_dude sure Airbus plays a big part in development of this aircraft, but the are multiple companies involved. And furthermore it is up to the operator to enclose this kind of information to the public