These are the first pictures from Australian airspace of Indonesia’s front-line jet fighter, the Sukhoi SU-30, four of which landed at Darwin’s RAAF base earlier today to take part in Exercise Pitch Black 2012.
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AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE
A “shitty post” – the Marine Air-Ground Task Force in the Top End. Part 1: Delamere
Darwin – or Robertson Barracks – isn’t exactly seen as a comfort post. One comment on a military weblog reckoned that while the Northern Territory might be a great place to conduct large-scale training exercises most of the troops won’t be based at or near Darwin but at Bradshaw an awful long way from Darwin. One commentator described Bradshaw as a “shitty place to be posted”.
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