The urgent quest for a sovereign SATCOM capability As bushfires raged along eastern Australia just over a year ago, destroying lives, property, and livelihoods, the ADF deployed to help out…
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Israeli company positions for greater local presence Elbit Systems of Australia, the local subsidiary of Israel’s largest defence company, is aiming to transform itself to create a fully sovereign Australian…
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First and Last, but Always? For more than half a century the USAF’s Wild Weasel mission has protected aircraft and aircrew from hostile air defences. But will the USAF’s dedicated…
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Australian Defence Business Review (ADBR) has added further depth to its team of trained, qualified, and operationally-experienced Defence analysts.
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Hanwha Defence Australia and Rheinmetall Australia have each delivered three infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) to the Australian Army for testing as part of the Project LAND 400 Phase 3 Risk…
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Two US Navy carrier strike groups came together in early February for dual carrier operations in the South China Sea. Carrier Strike Group Nine (CSG 9) centred around the USS…
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Digital network key to Huntsman howitzer fire power Hanwha Defence Australia has announced that it will team with Kongsberg Defence Australia on the Australian Army’s LAND 8116 Phase 1 Protected…
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The first of four Boeing KC-46A air-to-air tankers for the Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) made its maiden flight at Seattle on February 8. The Japanese aircraft is essentially…
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The AMDA Foundation has announced it has opened nomination for the 2021 Land Forces Innovation Awards. To be announced and presented at the Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition in…
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The first of up to 144 new Boeing F-15EX fighters for the USAF made its maiden flight at St Louis Lambert Field on February 3, some 49 years after the…
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By Chris McInnes The Royal Australian Air Force’s second century poses new challenges for the service as the comfortable assumptions that shaped its first century crumble. One hundred years of…
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The US Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a US$329.9m (A$430m) contract for the production of Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare Increment One Block One (JCREW I1B1) dismounted…
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The BAE Systems Australia maintenance and sustainment depot at RAAF base Williamtown has been officially opened, and has inducted its first F-35A Lightning II fighter. The milestone comes after the…
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Northrop Grumman has successfully demonstrated an anti-submarine warfare capability for its MQ-8C Fire Scout maritime vertical takeoff UAS. Using a manned Bell 407 airframe upon which the MQ-8C is based,…
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The Commonwealth has announced it has released an invitation to register for the Australian Army’s LAND 8710 Phase 1 requirement to replace the LARC-V (Lighter, Amphibious Resupply, Cargo – 5…