The Commonwealth has announced that Australia will order an additional two Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime ISR and response aircraft for the RAAF. The two aircraft will add to the 12…
CYBER & EW
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VADM Jonathan Mead assumed the role of the ADF’s Chief of Joint Capabilities (CJC) on November 24, succeeding AIRMSHL Warren McDonald. VADM Mead joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1984,…
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Why the PLA’s naval AEW&C aircraft matters – and why it will be delayed
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Lockheed Martin has awarded CAE a contract to supply its Magnetic Anomaly Detection-Extended Role (MAD-XR) for the US Navy’s Sikorsky MH-60R Romeo Seahawk helicopter. The MAD-XR will add an additional…
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Canberra-based cyber security company, Penten has launched a new business units focused on delivering secure and easy-to-use communication technologies that are compatible across military, emergency, and humanitarian applications. Called Tactical…
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The September-October 2020 issue of ADBR is now available online, and subscribers should start receiving their magazines this week. Another interesting magazine full of informed analysis and interesting feature stories,…
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In this second of a series of articles, ADBR examines joint force integration through the data link lens.
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The first of 14 Royal Australian Navy major surface assets to be equipped with BAE Systems Australia’s Advanced SATCOM Terrestrial Infrastructure System, Maritime Communications Element (MASTIS) terminal upgrade is scheduled…
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There are questions of access and influence behind a US decision to redraw part of the MTCR
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the prevalence of coercive statecraft in the Indo– Pacific has revealed the need for new thinking about the value proposition of Australia’s military forces as a deterrent to state-based aggression.
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On March 20 2003 hundreds of US and coalition aviators prepared for what would be the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).
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Felix Defence, an Australian provider of intelligence and ISR capability development services to Defence and publisher of ADBR, has announced the expansion of its publishing stable with the launch of…
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BAE Systems Australia, the University of Adelaide, and the ADF’s Defence Science and Technology (DST) group have announced a collaboration on the development of high frequency systems. Using the ADF’s…
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Indo-Pacific News The United States is reported to be moving forward with three separate arms sale packages to Taiwan, with guided rockets, missiles, and airborne reconnaissance pods set to be…
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After a protracted development and build program, the ADF’s satellite ground station – west at Geraldton in Western Australia has been declared fully operational. Awarded to BAE Systems Australia under…
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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…
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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…
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INDO-PACIFIC NEWS Japan’s Defence Ministry has issued its annual budget request to the country’s powerful finance ministry, seeking a record budget for the eighth consecutive year. The ¥5.8tr (A$77bn) request…
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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…
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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…