For 80 defence personnel sent to a secret location in the Middle East, the war with Iran is alarmingly close.
May 20, 2026 — 7:45pm
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Deployment to the Middle East felt truly real for RAAF pilot “H” a few weeks back when he saw missiles shooting across the sky in front of his hi-tech surveillance plane.
“A little confronting,” he told this masthead. “Definitely a sight that I never really thought I would see.”
We are sitting in the cockpit of his E-7A Wedgetail, parked on the apron of an airstrip at a secret location in the Middle East.
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