Australian Defence Business Review features
Is the US finally ready to Join the Force? By an Australian in Washington For the US military, enabling and operationalising the Joint Force has been seen as a little…
Australian Defence Business Review features
Is the US finally ready to Join the Force? By an Australian in Washington For the US military, enabling and operationalising the Joint Force has been seen as a little…
The RAAF is more than halfway through the delivery of its planned fleet of 72 Lockheed Martin F-35A fighters. Selected in 2002 to replace the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18A/B Hornet and…
An analysis of Taiwan’s military capabilities The island of Taiwan, home to a population of 23 million (just under Australia’s 25 million), but measuring roughly half the size of Tasmania,…
We have people, we have machines. What’s missing? Australia’s defence discussion has an ideas gap that leaves it vulnerable in the face of new challenges. Planned investments in equipment and…
Active Electronically Scanned Array radars explained Like most great ideas, radar employs an elegantly simple principle. Radio waves are transmitted from an antenna, they collide with an object, properly known…
At what cost efficiency? One of the more difficult projects for Defence to conceive, plan, and execute, is an enterprise training system – and no more so than a defence…
Subscribers’ copies of the May-June 2021 issue ADBR are starting to arrive, and it looks great. Now the magazine is live online! Inside, we cover the following: * A wrap…
In September 2003, then-President of the People’s Republic of China Jiang Zemin addressed members of the secretive ‘995 Project’. For the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), he said, “the development of…
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020 demonstrated that low-cost weapons such as small UAS and loitering munitions can neutralise or significantly degrade complex anti-air defences. Putting the ethnic and geopolitical…
by Chris McInnes The Australian Army needs to examine several cultural touchstones to ensure it is future ready for the transformative systems it will soon introduce into service. Investment by…
Muskito UGV joins ADF autonomous anti-mine warfare capability Where once soldiers on foot cleared roads of mines by slow and careful scanning with mine detectors, Defence is now assessing new…
The use of drones in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Artificial intelligence and machine-learning form the foundation of the cognitive techniques set to revolutionise electronic warfare. Since their first use en masse during World War 2, Electronic Warfare (EW) systems…
The March-April 2021 issue of ADBR is now online, and it’s full of LAND FORCES International Land Defence Exposition goodness! Stories inside include… * is the Australian Army Future Ready?* the opening of Raytheon Australia’s…
77 years and one day after the epic Dambusters raid, we revisit a feature article first published in ADBR in May 2019. May 16 2021 marked the 77th anniversary of…
COVID-19 Recovery measures overshadow 2021-22 Defence Budget In a federal budget which focused on national recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, Defence didn’t rate much of a mention. But as expected,…
By FELIX DEFENCE The 2020-21 Defence budget signalled a significant increase in, “…long-range capabilities to hold adversary forces and infrastructure at risk, further from Australia, including longer-range strike weapons, offensive…
The unique patrol challenge of extended maritime zones Traditionally, a nation’s claims to the surrounding seas extended to territorial waters no more than 12nm (about 22km) beyond its shoreline. However,…
The history of the USAF Aggressors – what can the RAAF learn from the USAF experience? By Rodney Barton The Vietnam War hammered home a lot of lessons during the…
Downer Group has been announced as the latest member of the Defence Teaming Centre (DTC), joining as a Prime Supporter. The DTC is a national member-based organisation that supports the…