The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
RAAF Mirages stationed at Butterworth in northern Malaysia will play an important role in the five nation combined exercise now under way in Malaysia. Mirages of Nos 3 and 75 Squadrons RAAF at Butterworth are providing air defence of the northern Malaysian area in the exercise, which is codenamed Bersatu Padu, a Malay phrase meaning complete unity. The exercise is designed to train combined forces of Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom under conditions that would prevail after the British withdrawal. RAAF participation will include as well as the Mirages, Orion maritime aircraft from No 11 Squadron RAAF at Edinburgh, South Australia, and a detachment of the Air Telecommunications Unit from Richmond, NSW. The main phase of the exercise will take place in the last two weeks in June when naval forces will be operating off the east coast of Malaysia, and two multi-nation brigades will be exercising in west Malaysia. The Mirages will be operating with RAF Phantom aircraft in support of the combined army forces in the exercise, as well as carrying out air defence exercises. The enemy will be provided by British Commandos, Gurkhas and naval and air forces. Shows Mirage landing . Sign for 75 Squadron RAAF. Line up of Mirages. Mixed shots of armourers loading 30mm cannon ammunition. Three shots of pilot Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Reg J Meissner being strapped into the cockpit of Mirage A3-55. [ Les Dunn whose name is stencilled (Flt Lt L N C Dunn) on this aircraft has identified the pilot on this occasion as Reg Meissner]. Flt Lt Meissner closes cockpit (2 shots). Cutaway of Mirage line up. Mirage taxies and takes off (3 shots).
Two RAAF Mirage jet fighter squadrons at the RAAF base at Butterworth are in readiness for the operational phase of the five-nation military exercise Bersatu Padu. Nos. 3 and 75 Squadrons will play a
For the second year in succession the Gloucester Cup, awarded annually to the most proficient flying squadron in the RAAF has gone to a Mirage fighter Squadron at Air Base Butterworth in West Malaysia
An exercise held to test the defence system of the Darwin area. Supplementing the Mirages sophisticated radar and navigation equipment is a complex ground radar system which increases the aircraft's c
The air defences of Northern Australia are to be tested by strike aircraft from three countries, playing the role of the enemy aircraft. Darwin air base will be defended by Mirage fighter of the RAAF.
Tengah air base, Singapore. Shows main gate of air base. Arrival of RAAF Mirage ground crew by Douglas Dakota. Flypast of the Mirages in formation. Mirages landing and taxi-ing. Glimpses of the pilots
Over 70 aircraft of the RAAF, RAF and RNZAF are preparing for the major air defence exercise of 1972, coverage on Darwin and Tindal in the Northern Territory. Mark 2 Phantoms and Canberra jets support
