From Port Moresby to Cerberus 🇦🇺 🇵🇬 Meeting new friends, sharing insights into Papua New Guinea’s culture and undertaking demanding physical training were highlights for three privates reflecting on their time at the Royal Australian Navy Recruit School. Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) Privates Millis Kaos, Jamal Kime and Allan Aihi graduated from the Recruit School at HMAS Cerberus in March, as members of General Entry 444 Emms Division. Read more ➡️ #YourADF# #AusNavy# #StrongerTogether# @Australian_Navy @AusHCPNG

G'day JS Kumano 👋 @JMSDF_PAO ship JS Kumano recently arrived at 📍 Fleet Base East in Sydney, New South Wales for ASWEX 26. 🇦🇺 🇯🇵 ASWEX is an annual, Navy led, Joint-enabled Field Training Exercise (FTX) focused on Under Sea Warfare (USW) and challenges participating units to track and hunt subsurface threats across a large area. #YourADF# #AusNavy# #StrongerTogether# @Australian_Navy

It’s a lot easier to drop in to see friends at work when their head office is a 193-metre-long command centre at sea. 🌊 After a multilateral maritime cooperative activity with the Philippines and United States within the 📍 Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone, the Commanding Officer of the @Australian_Navy's HMAS Toowoomba conducted a cross‑deck visit to USS Blue Ridge, the home of the United States Navy 7th Fleet Command. Commissioned in 1970, Blue Ridge is the oldest serving ship in the @USNavy. Read more ➡️ #YourADF# #AusNavy# #StrongerTogether# @Philippine_Navy

What does Hydrography look like in the Navy? 🌊 + 🗺️ Within the @Australian_Navy, Maritime Geospatial Officers utilise advanced sensors to collect and analyse a range of data crucial for ensuring ship safety, with the goal to leverage geospatial data analysis to enhance maritime operations providing strategic, operational, and tactical advantages to our naval forces. This data includes: ✅ Bathymetric mapping ✅ Seafloor analysis ✅ Current and tide measurements ✅ Terrestrial mapping ✅ Environmental observations #YourADF# #AusNavy#

Two Collins-class submarines slipped between the Bellarine and Mornington peninsulas into 📍 Port Phillip for concurrent port visits in Melbourne and Geelong. 🐬 The submarines, both based at HMAS Stirling in Western Australia, used their brief windows alongside for logistics resupply and crew respite following intense training off the south-eastern coast. ➡️ #YourADF# #AusNavy#