Love the F18 such a superb design, been around for a while now, I remember as a rifleman in the army on Kangaroo 89 at Weipa on patrol and looking up at the sound of jets and seeing two F18 jets having a 🐕 fight.
3:11 if anybody could notice, aircraft #214 must be one of the 12 Rhinos who get those Growler wirings. See that SATCOM hump behind the spinal antenna.
Dave you can check out our documentary here on TH-cam featuring AWIC 2022, there we have our footage of aircraft movements at Darwin and onboard the KC-30 tanker conducting AAR-gives you an idea about the large force exercises.
I look at all these aircraft, and think of the song nothing compares to you and have an Image of an F111 in my mind am I wrong or just from another era.
@@jacktattis We have had the Abrams since 2007, and the Challenger has a better record because it hasn't been deployed as wideley in combat. 7 of the 9 Abrams lost were friendly fire, the eighth was to prevent capture and the other was a legitimate kill by the enemy. 🙂
@@deuxbleux Yes we have and it cost $550 million/unit for a second hand Tank There were 20 Abrams replaced by the Saudis due to Battle Damage 9 were lost due to battle damage 2 deliberately destroyed There have been NO Challengers lost in combat and none to battle damage 2 were to Friendly fire that were repaired One overnight Compatibility is a poor replacement for NOT having the Best tank with the best Armour and the best Gun . Back then we could have got the Challenger 1 at bargain basement prices
@@deuxbleux Oh and the Challenger 2 with Chobham 2 was $9.8 MILLION/UNIT BACK IN 2005 Now tell us that we got a good deal. Something stinks in Canberra
Why???? fly out do their thing and if they survive go back to base to a hot meal, showers, ready made bed, air conditioning Goodness they are RAAF for heavens sake . Try some thanks to the real workers, the Army and in particular the Infantry who start an Operation on the ground, walking, doing miles of patrols, all weathers, no beds, no hot meals, no showers until the Operation is over.
Why they are at Amberley I will never know They would have to be refuelled twice to get to anywhere beyond Darwin and the Typhoon gets twice the distance
Dont worry about stealth the enemy would just have to follow the tankers the F35 has a range of 1200 miles, to Darwin from Amberley is just under 1800 miles to Port Headland is 2500 miles
@@jacktattis its a big difference between knowing a rough area of where an aircraft is, and actually locating & locking said aircraft I can tell you know fuck-all about this subject 😂
I factory tested and verified the initial power units for the Tindall Base way back in the early 90's a pair of 6 cylinder Isuzu gensets for general power and a tiny little 4 cylinder unit whose sole task was to ensure the catch wires stayed stowed until needed. I wonder if they are still there? A typical government defense job where the size of the documentation paperwork pile was bigger than the actual units.
@@jacktattis I worked on another job for the RAAF around the same time ( I worked for Detroit Diesel in Adelaide) where we had to make a trailer mounted genset/air conditioner unit that plugged into a plane that was working it's way around Australia laser mapping the ocean floor. The requirement for the genset was it had to replicate exactly the performance of the old Hobart 28 Volt power pack they were currently using, right down to the volts/amp curves as the plane was started of the power pack. It took us months of work to satisfy the boffins who came out to witness test the unit, we had trouble making it function bad enough to match the old Hobart unit. Then we took it to the plane and had the crew try an engine start, their first response 'This is no better than the old f***** Hobart unit', yes we all beamed, exactly like you asked for. After the boffins left all confused we asked the crew what they actually wanted, unplugged the logic controller that was mapping the generators output and just left it as a 28 Volt power supply, which was what they wanted, near 6 months work and testing totally wasted.
How is there bird shit on them? (4:00 mins) total disrespect to take that to the flight line. Clean the aircraft, shoot the pigeons!! FFS its not the coast guard....
Those f-22’s at the start are next level ♥️
Love the F18 such a superb design, been around for a while now, I remember as a rifleman in the army on Kangaroo 89 at Weipa on patrol and looking up at the sound of jets and seeing two F18 jets having a 🐕 fight.
3:11 if anybody could notice, aircraft #214 must be one of the 12 Rhinos who get those Growler wirings. See that SATCOM hump behind the spinal antenna.
Love watching all of the aircraft and it would nice to see a documentary, including the air refueling. Thanks for the video. 🦘🦘🦘
Dave you can check out our documentary here on TH-cam featuring AWIC 2022, there we have our footage of aircraft movements at Darwin and onboard the KC-30 tanker conducting AAR-gives you an idea about the large force exercises.
I look at all these aircraft, and think of the song nothing compares to you and have an Image of an F111 in my mind am I wrong or just from another era.
You'r not wrong the PIG all the way!!!
@@aviationphotographydigestWhat was based out of Amberley for the exercise? Thanks
Got a mate in 2nd Cav driving an M1A1 Abrams in Talisman Sabre, seeing these fast jets tearing through the sky from the field would be a great show.
Abrams??? junk we should have bought the Challenger Better tank better results in combat
@@jacktattis We have had the Abrams since 2007, and the Challenger has a better record because it hasn't been deployed as wideley in combat. 7 of the 9 Abrams lost were friendly fire, the eighth was to prevent capture and the other was a legitimate kill by the enemy. 🙂
@@deuxbleux Yes we have and it cost $550 million/unit for a second hand Tank
There were 20 Abrams replaced by the Saudis due to Battle Damage 9 were lost due to battle damage 2 deliberately destroyed There have been NO Challengers lost in combat and none to battle damage 2 were to Friendly fire that were repaired One overnight
Compatibility is a poor replacement for NOT having the Best tank with the best Armour and the best Gun .
Back then we could have got the Challenger 1 at bargain basement prices
@@deuxbleux Oh and the Challenger 2 with Chobham 2 was $9.8 MILLION/UNIT BACK IN 2005 Now tell us that we got a good deal. Something stinks in Canberra
@@jacktattis bro, why are you so heated?
Thanks to those lovely pilots!
Why???? fly out do their thing and if they survive go back to base to a hot meal, showers, ready made bed, air conditioning Goodness they are RAAF for heavens sake . Try some thanks to the real workers, the Army and in particular the Infantry who start an Operation on the ground, walking, doing miles of patrols, all weathers, no beds, no hot meals, no showers until the Operation is over.
Need them at Darwin 😕. But love having the heavy lifters. Love ya work.
Why they are at Amberley I will never know They would have to be refuelled twice to get to anywhere beyond Darwin and the Typhoon gets twice the distance
All so awesome 😮😮😮
Wonderful to see
Loved it.
Much appreciated!
A great little video Australia needs to have the b2 bombers based in the Northern Territory.
Is there anything else ???? The RAAF are being swamped with US equipment as it is. F18 F35 both planes bettered by the Rafale or Typhoon
Australia does
Just wonderful to see and hear😮😮😮
F-22 are so tuff
They are a cool bit of kit.
No they are not very flimsy
That should be they are very flimsy
@@jacktattis lmao look at you commenting bullshit on every comment
Love this,now we are talking
Wonder how the bird droppings on that F-35’s tail effect it’s stealth capabilities? 😂
Dont worry about stealth the enemy would just have to follow the tankers the F35 has a range of 1200 miles, to Darwin from Amberley is just under 1800 miles to Port Headland is 2500 miles
@@jacktattis If the enemy is hanging around the tankers they'll be detected & dead.
@@douglasnakamura6753 Not sure about that.
@@jacktattis its a big difference between knowing a rough area of where an aircraft is, and actually locating & locking said aircraft
I can tell you know fuck-all about this subject 😂
@@IC3XR If you say so/
instinctively threw back the shaka at 1:32
Daang those F-22's are nice.
How can i tell if any of these planes ever come to RAAF Pearce?
I factory tested and verified the initial power units for the Tindall Base way back in the early 90's a pair of 6 cylinder Isuzu gensets for general power and a tiny little 4 cylinder unit whose sole task was to ensure the catch wires stayed stowed until needed. I wonder if they are still there? A typical government defense job where the size of the documentation paperwork pile was bigger than the actual units.
Yes indeed and the people who go out to buy some of our equipment had no idea. I mean send the people who are actually going to use it to buy it.
@@jacktattis I worked on another job for the RAAF around the same time ( I worked for Detroit Diesel in Adelaide) where we had to make a trailer mounted genset/air conditioner unit that plugged into a plane that was working it's way around Australia laser mapping the ocean floor. The requirement for the genset was it had to replicate exactly the performance of the old Hobart 28 Volt power pack they were currently using, right down to the volts/amp curves as the plane was started of the power pack. It took us months of work to satisfy the boffins who came out to witness test the unit, we had trouble making it function bad enough to match the old Hobart unit. Then we took it to the plane and had the crew try an engine start, their first response 'This is no better than the old f***** Hobart unit', yes we all beamed, exactly like you asked for. After the boffins left all confused we asked the crew what they actually wanted, unplugged the logic controller that was mapping the generators output and just left it as a 28 Volt power supply, which was what they wanted, near 6 months work and testing totally wasted.
@@raygale4198 Yes the Boffins can be stupid
I know the Hornet is 4th gen compared to the other aircraft's but it is the sexiest.
Yeah she has a lot of character
lol at the bird shit all over the F-35's vertical stabs xD
Great video good to see our Australian taxpayers money getting used to beef up our military
And it is good hat we are making some of our own and spreading the contracts around
They could of cleaned all the bird poop off the F35's 😆
How is there bird shit on them? (4:00 mins) total disrespect to take that to the flight line. Clean the aircraft, shoot the pigeons!! FFS its not the coast guard....
Mate cant shoot the pigeons the Greens will get upset.