The UK has lost its first F-35B Lightning fighter after a failed launch from the carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth in the Levantine Sea area of the eastern Mediterranean. The carrier…
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Building on a mixed heritage of naval support. Australia has a long association with ships named Supply, starting with a 24-metre Royal Navy tender which accompanied the First Fleet to…
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Increase in funding but no surprises In a Federal Budget focused on national recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, Defence didn’t rate much of a mention in the Treasurer’s 2021-22 Defence…
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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…
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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…
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The Australian Defence Force will partner with the US on the development of that country’s Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) program. Being developed by Lockheed Martin and with a designed range…
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Australian Defence companies Electro Optic Systems (EOS) and Nova Systems have formed the Sovereign Missile Alliance (SMA), saying it could deliver Australian-made precision munitions within five years. The SMA says…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Australia is investing heavily in modern warships with advanced missile defences which actually may not work against hypersonic missiles now being fielded by Russia and China. What may prove more…
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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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Hanwha Defense Australia and Team Redback has officially launched the Redback Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) ahead of delivering three vehicles to compete in the test and evaluation trials being conducted…
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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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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
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The time is right to review the integration of defence industry with ADF capability
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In the July-August 2020 issue of ADBR which will be available online on September 8, we welcome Owen Zupp to our growing team as a senior contributor. Owen recently came…
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Proposals for a new fighter aircraft for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)’s Future Fighter Capability Project (FFCP) were submitted to the Canadian government on July 31. Three bids were…
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China’s first Type 075 LHD to commence sea trialsThe first Type 075 Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) for China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA-N) is set to start its first sea…
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As old strategic certainties become increasingly less certain, and our part of the world becomes more contested, Australia faces some problems which can only be confronted with serious science.