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Australia weighs sending ‘world-class’ surveillance aircraft to defend against Iran drones
The country’s most sophisticated military surveillance plane could be deployed to help Gulf nations defend against Iranian missile and drone attacks.
- Matthew Knott
Battle lines drawn over move to sell Victorian defence site
Melbourne’s fringe could look radically different if this historic base goes under the hammer, and locals are not happy about it.
- Adam Carey
- Updated
- Defence
‘Tap the brakes’: Wary response to Defence’s $3b asset sell-off plan
A dramatic sale of 35,000 hectares of defence real estate – including some of the nation’s most historic barracks – will bring in about $3 billion, but relocating staff could cost $1 billion.
- Matthew Knott
- The Last Word
- Victoria floods
‘The house collapsed behind them’: The last-minute rescue of a stranded family
Drought settled on Victoria during World War II. Then came fires and finally, the Big Flood, stranding a little family. As Tony Wright recounts, no one was about to let them drown.
- Tony Wright
Ghost Bat drones take flight in $1 billion bid to modernise military
The successful firing of an air-to-air missile on an aerial target in test exercises has paved the way for a major investment in the Ghost Bat program.
- Matthew Knott
- Analysis
- Russia-Ukraine war
Inside Australian spy plane’s secretive night over Europe
The crew know that when their screens light up, it means terror is coming to someone on the ground below.
- David Crowe
- Updated
- China relations
China hits back at Australia over ‘provocative’ air incident
A Chinese military spokesman says the latest South China Sea aircraft near-miss “seriously infringed upon China’s sovereignty”.
- Matthew Knott
- Exclusive
- Childcare
Bullsbrook families ‘devastated’ as air base daycare to close over noise concerns
Eilis Spence is a single mum of a two-year-old girl who attends the centre and she said she was shocked to have been told of the impending closure, attributed partly to an “anticipated increase in aircraft noise levels”.
- Hamish Hastie
Former RAAF pilot to stand trial accused of staging wife’s death as lawn mower accident
A former Royal Australian Air Force pilot has been committed to stand trial over allegations he killed his wife and then staged it to look like a lawnmower accident.
- Cloe Read