sustainment news
Raytheon Australia has announced that it will establish a regional manufacturing and maintenance hub for the Schiebel S-100 Camcopter if it is selected for the Australian Army’s Project LAND 129…
sustainment news
Raytheon Australia has announced that it will establish a regional manufacturing and maintenance hub for the Schiebel S-100 Camcopter if it is selected for the Australian Army’s Project LAND 129…
TAE Aerospace has announced it has signed an agreement with Rolls-Royce to perform maintenance and repair services of Adour Mk871 engines used by the RAAF’s fleet of 33 Hawk 127…
The US State Department has approved the possible foreign military sale (FMS) to Finland of either 64 Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fighters, or a package of 50 Boeing F/A-18E…
Boeing has announced it has successfully tested open mission systems (OMS) architecture with a wide-band active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar such as that used on the E-7A Wedgetail AEW&C…
Boeing has confirmed it has responded to a Request for Information (RFI) from the Commonwealth for the Project AIR 6002 Phase 1 future lead-in fighter training system (LIFTS) requirement, with its new T-7A Red Hawk.
Airbus Australia Pacific will double-down on its unsolicited proposal for the Commonwealth’s LAND 4503 ARH replacement program by offering an enhanced Tiger ARH upgrade proposal. Speaking to media on October…
The government has delivered on its promise to take defence spending to two per cent of gross domestic product, with Defence to receive more than $41.7 billion in 2020-21, rising…
The first of the RAN’s two Cantabria/Supply class auxiliary oiler replenishment (AOR) vessels, NUSHIP Supply II, has arrived at Garden Island in Western Australia after its delivery voyage from Navantia’s…
The Commonwealth has awarded Saab Australia contracts valued at $20 million to provide its AUV62-AT anti-submarine warfare (ASW) training system to the Royal Australian Navy. The contract follows the August…
The Australian Army will reportedly ask industry to provide an Army interim helicopter capability (AIHC) to complement the MRH 90 Taipans of the Townsville-based 5 Aviation Regiment (5Avn). Under a…
Saab Australia has signed a $370 million contract with the Commonwealth to provide the Joint Project (JP) 2060 Phase 3 Deployable Health Capability (DHC). The project seeks to acquire three…
The RAAF’s C-27J Spartan battlefield airlifter capability has recently been put to the test in an exercise as it seeks to recover from a period of low aircraft availability and…
Team Downer, a consortium of companies that are a major service provider (MSP) to the ADF’s Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG), has opened a new office in the Adelaide…
With Australia, Japan, and other nations in the Indo-Pacific region increasingly being drawn together to counter Chinese territorial aspirations, ADBR’s OSINT series of analysing the various regional orders of battle in play continues. In this issue, we look at the Japan Air Self Defense Force
The AMDA Foundation has confirmed the 2022 International Maritime Exposition for the Indo Asia Pacific Region, or INDO-PACIFIC 2022, will be held from Tuesday May 10 to Thursday May 12,…
The RAN’s two Canberra class Landing Helicopter Docks (LHD) have completed the installation of their Nulka rocket-propelled active anti-ship missile decoy system following the completion of work on HMAS Adelaide.…
The RAAF’s first Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II squadron has seen its first change of command since converting to the aircraft in 2018. August 28 saw WGCDR Darren Clare hand…
The time is right to review the integration of defence industry with ADF capability
The Commonwealth has released a request for information (RFI) for the Project AIR 5428 Phase 3 Air Mission Training System (AMTS). The AMTS will be located at the Air Academy…
Hungary has become the first customer for the new Rheinmetall Lynx KF41 infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) after it signed a deal valued at more than €2bn ($A3.25bn) for 218 Lynx…