Silent nights await as Top End war games near end
Australia's newest frontline weapon and 150 RAAF personnel are in the Top End for a major exercise.
View ArticleDawn services mark start of Anzac Day to remember
More than 2,000 people gathered at Darwin's Cenotaph for a dawn service to mark the start of Anzac Day. The old and the young, wearing everything from uniforms and suits to shorts and thongs gathered...
View ArticleKeeping noise down in US joint training exercises
The Australian Defence Force says most air activities planned by US Marines training in the Northern Territory will involve helicopters and have a minimal impact on civilian life. In future years of...
View ArticleNoise alert as mock air war hits Top End skies
Organisers of Exercise Pitch Black say they are doing everything they can to minimise aircraft noise for the Darwin community this year.
View ArticleMajor aircraft exercise 'Pitch Black' gears up for Darwin
RAAF Darwin will invite aviation enthusiasts and curious spectators onto its base during a three-week major training exercise, Pitch Black
View Article'Pitch Black' sees enemy battle played out over Darwin
A 'war games' enemy battle exercise will begin tomorrow over the skies of Darwin, with 94 aircraft from six nations practising for a hypothetical enemy attack.
View ArticleExercise Pitch Black takes off
Louisa Rebgetz talks to Group Captain Mike Kitcher, the man in charge of Australia's largest and most complex aerial war games.
View ArticleIndonesia joins Top End war games for first time
For the first time, Indonesia has joined international air war games in Australia.
View ArticleAir war games draw flak over jet fighter noise
The Australian Defence Force says it has to run Exercise Pitch Black out of Darwin because the Tindal air force base near Katherine is at capacity.
View ArticleLives lost in the north now remembered
Brian Winspear could have had his name on a silver plaque 12 times, but he escaped death. The 92-year-old bombing of Darwin veteran today opened a new WWII memorial wall at East Point, where his...
View ArticleNo celebration of war in remembering sacrifice
Anzac Day in the Top End was marked by the young and the old when thousands of people gathered at the cenotaph in Darwin for a moving dawn service.
View ArticleRAAF Top Guns take flight in Top End skies
Six of Australia's top fighter pilots are taking to the skies over Darwin as part of the RAAF's Top Gun program.
View ArticleUS Marines and Australian troops set for Exercise Koolendong in NT
United States Marines and Australian troops are preparing for a big joint military training exercise that begins in the Northern Territory tomorrow. Exercise Koolendong will run until September 7 at...
View ArticleTop End under attack as US 'invasion' begins
A major training exercise involving more than 900 US Marines and about 100 Australian Defence Force soldiers has started in the Northern Territory.
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