BAE Systems’ Hunter Class frigate program passes preliminary design review
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BAE Systems Australia’s Hunter Class Frigate Program has successfully completed its Preliminary Design Review, which looked into the operational effectiveness of the program’s design.
The company held a celebratory event at its Osborne shipyard to mark the completion of the review, which began in July this year.
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BAE launch Australia’s first domestically designed, manufactured and armed VTOL UAS
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STRIXTM is a collaboration with Perth-based Innovaero and was launched at the 2023 Avalon Airshow in Geelong, Australia. The collaboration brings together our global expertise in autonomous platforms and its vehicle management system (VMS) technology with Innovaero’s knowledge of aeronautical product design and manufacture in the Australian m...
Babcock tapped for delivery of advanced long-range communications for the ADF
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The Australian Government has announced a major boost to Defence’s strategic high-frequency communications capability to support regional and global operations.
Defence and Babcock Pty Ltd today signed the contract to equip the Australian Defence Force with an enhanced high-frequency communications system.
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Biggest defence review in decades to identify 'gaps' in armed forces
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a comprehensive strategic review of the Australian Defence Force amid concerns about a "capability gap" in the country's armed forces.
He said the review was aimed at ensuring the ADF was well positioned to meet Australia's security challenges over the next decade and beyond.
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Boeing plans to build Loyal Wingman drones at Wellcamp near Toowoomba
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Boeing has announced it plans to build an unmanned military aircraft manufacturing facility near Toowoomba that could create more than 300 jobs across regional Queensland.
The site at the Wellcamp Aerospace and Defence Precinct would be the final assembly point for the Loyal Wingman planes, with the project subject to defence orde...
Britton Maritime Systems awarded Sea Boats
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Sydney-based company Britton Maritime Systems was awarded a $9 million contract to build 12 Gemini seaboats for Navy’s newest Cape-class patrol boats.
Defence’s Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group’s head of maritime systems Rear Admiral Wendy Malcolm said the contract was another example of Australian industry&...
Boeing Australia completes first ‘loyal wingman’ fuselage
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Boeing Australia has completed assembly of the fuselage structure of the first 'loyal wingman' unmanned aircraft it is developing in partnership with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).
The Australian subsidiary of the larger Boeing company announced this milestone for the first of three prototypes for the Loyal Wingman - Advanced Dev...
BAE Systems finally confirms CV90 for LAND 400 Phase 3 bid
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BAE Systems today confirmed it is offering the CV90, a combat-proven Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV), to the Commonwealth of Australia in response to the LAND 400 Phase 3 Mounted Close Combat Capability Request for Tender.
The project team will be led by BAE Systems’ Sweden-based combat vehicles business and supported by BAE ...
Boeing announces development of new Australian-engineered UAV
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The Australian Government will partner with Boeing to advance an initial concept for an Australian-designed and developed unmanned aircraft system.
Minister for Defence, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP and Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Steven Ciobo MP, said the research and development opportunity was a further demonstration of the Australi...
BAE Systems selects Combat Systems Integration partners for Hunter Class Frigate Program
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BAE Systems Australia today announced that it has selected Lockheed Martin Australia and Saab Australia to partner with the company to deliver the Combat System Integration on the Hunter Class frigates.
The decision further supports the development of an Australian combat systems industry that will underpin the Australian Government&rs...
