Major effort

Volume 49, No. 12, July 12, 2007
 

- More than 7500 ADF personnel (2,000 Air Force) and 20,000 US personnel participated in Exercise Talisman Saber 2007.

- RAAF assets included F-111 (1SQN), F/A-18 (77SQN), AP-3C (92WG), B-707 (33SQN), C-17 (36SQN), C-130 (37SQN) and DHC-4 (38SQN) aircraft.

- US air assets included KC-130 tanker aircraft, Marines and Navy Hornets, and Marines Harrier V/STOL jets.

- The exercise tested the Combined Air Operations Centre in Canberra and the new Joint/Combined Training capability.

- TS07 is the second exercise in the series. The last was held in 2005.