The US State Department has cleared the sale of four Raytheon Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA round to Japan. The sales is considered a formality seeing as the Block IIA…
Andrew McLaughlin
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The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has reportedly dismissed a protest by Raytheon over its unsuccessful bid to provide the radar for the USAF’s JSTARS Recap program. A report in…
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The USAF has awarded Boeing-owned Aurora Flight Sciences a US$48m (A$61m) contract to develop a certified version of its Orion medium altitude long endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial system. Previously, the…
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The US government is considering relaxing some of its export restrictions on arms sales according to a January 8 report by Reuters. The report says the Trump administration is looking…
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The Australian Defence Force’s Project AIR 9000 MRH-90 acquisition project and service entry process for the Australian Army and Royal Australian Navy commenced in 2004 and today remains on the…
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The Sir Richard Williams Foundation’s The Central Blue forum is collaborating with the From Balloons to Drones forum to publish a series of posts on high intensity warfare ahead of…
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L3 Technologies has established international boards of directors in three of its key regional focus markets. The new boards will support L3’s military and commercial businesses in Australia, Canada and…
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The Australian Army and CASG have deployed a number of Hawkei Protected Mobility Vehicles – Light (PMV-L) to Iraq for operational trials with Task Force Taji. Both two and four…
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Two crews comprising wounded Australian and British defence personnel successfully completed the 2017 Sydney to Hobart yacht race on the evening of December 29. Each crew comprised 16 former ADF…
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Industry Defence and Security Australia Limited, the organiser of CIVSEC 2018 has announced a new program of national innovation awards for Australia’s Civil Security professionals. The Awards are for Innovators…
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The USAF has committed to phase out its remaining MQ-1 Predator unmanned systems by the northern summer of this year, in favour of consolidating its UAS fleet around the larger…
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A report in Defense News says both Japan and South Korea has commissioned studies into the possibility of operating F-35B fighters from their small aircraft carriers. Japan’s Kyodo news agency…
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The USAF has laid out three potential plans to re-engine its fleet of 76 Boeing B-52H Stratofortresses to allow the 55-year-old bomber fleet to operate beyond 2050. At a December…
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A report on marinecorpstimes.com says US Marine Corps F-35Bs will make their combat debut in the Central Command area of operations in the next few months. The aircraft have been…
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The USAF has contracted Boeing under a Foreign Military Sales arrangement to manufacture 36 new F-15QA fighters for Qatar. The US6.1bn (A$7.8bn) contract is somewhat less than the estimated US$21bn…
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A contract for the first of up to four KC-46A tankers for Japan has been awarded to Boeing by the USAF. The US$289m (A$370m) contract is a fixed price amount…
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Happy New year and welcome to what we hope will be an exciting and successful year. The team at Australian Defence Business Review and our sister publication, Australian Aviation hope…
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Defence Minister Marise Payne has announced that air combat operations against ISIS by Royal Australian Air Force Air Task Group (ATG) under Operation Okra have ended, and that the…
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By Max Blenkin In a community where more and more factories were shutting up shop, the auto business was in terminal decline and unemployment was soaring, legislators desperately sought to…
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The Royal New Zealand Navy will retire its replenishment tanker, HMNZS Endeavour on December 22, and will be provided with at-sea replenishment services by the Royal Australian Navy until…