Up to 100 fighter jets from around the world will take to the skies over northern Australia for Exercise Pitch Black tomorrow in the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) biggest air combat training activity. The RAAF says the biennial war games help strengthen Australia’s relationships with allied partners, with thousands of personnel from 20 nations participating in this year’s manoeuvres, including the new addition of embedded aviators from Finland and Sweden. The 2026 exercises come amid heightened tensions in the region, beginning two weeks after China fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean from a nuclear-powered submarine for…
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