![]() ![]() “This first ever mission also highlights the expanding manned ISR partnership between the three allied nations as the three services develop common insights and operational tactics.” ![]() “The exercise sortie was designed to promote joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) interoperability between the three air forces,” the UK MoD said. It is however, the first publicly recorded instance of an Australian crew participating in a highly classified RC-135V/W mission.Įxercise Resolute Hunter is a relatively new joint service exercise sponsored by the USAF’s Air Combat Command and US Navy Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Centre (NAWDC) at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada. The RAF and USAF are operators of the RC-135V/W Rivet Joint aircraft and routinely use them to eavesdrop on other countries from international airspace. Based on the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, the Rivet Joint aircraft are modified with highly classified mission equipment. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has revealed that Royal Australian Air Force crews, together with their Royal Air Force and United States Air Force counterparts, have recently carried out a mission aboard a US Boeing RC-135W ‘Rivet Joint’ Signals Intelligence (SIGINT).įlown in November, the mission was part of Exercise Resolute Hunter 22-1 (RH22-1) conducted in the US between 27 October and 19 November and involved an RC-135W from the US Air Force’s 55 th Reconnaissance Wing, based at Offutt Air Force Base in Alaska. ![]()
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