Exercise Pitch Black 2012
Exercise Pitch Black 12 (PB12) is the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) largest and most complex air exercise. It was held in Australia’s Northern Territory from 27 July to 17 August 2012.
Read MoreInternational participants included the United States Marine Corps, the Republic of Singapore Air Force, Royal Thai Air Force, and Royal New Zealand Air Force, and the Indonesian Air Force. I was very fortunate to be a guest at RAAF Base Darwin over two days in early August, photographing exercise activity. These are 20 of my photos.
One of the most significant aspects of 2012's Pitch Black was the first ever employment of Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar at the exercise. One of the new types carrying the AESA were the RAAF Super Hornets. Here A44-224 carries a travel pod on one of its portside pylons.
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