French firm Exail has made the launch sale of its new long-range Uncrewed Surface Vehicle (USV), the DriX H-9, to an undisclosed leading global hydrographic authority. This milestone marks the successful expansion of Exail’s portfolio of autonomous solutions for both…
Swedish defence prime Saab has signed a SEK 60 million ($9.75 million) contract with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for a Large Uncrewed Undersea Vehicle (LUUV). The goal of the project, led by FMV, is to develop a concept…
Although Leidos Australia has won the SIP role in Defence’s Project LAND156, US prime contractor L3Harris Technologies has launched its own Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems (C-UAS) initiative. L3Harris says it is rapidly responding to the US Department of Defense and…
US firm BAE Systems Information and Electronic Warfare Systems has won a US$1.74 billion ($2.6 billion) contract from US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to build 55,000 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS) 70mm rockets. The APKWS will be…
Swedish company Saab has revealed Nimbrix, its first ever dedicated Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) missile. The missile has been developed to counter the increasing threat from small UASs on the battlefield. The fire-and-forget missile is being rapidly developed at Saab…
California-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has begun flight-testing its YFQ-42A Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), in coordination with the US Air Force (USAF). This continues the company’s rapid creation of new, jet-powered uncrewed platforms chartered by the USAF to…
Melbourne-based Leidos Australia has won the $45.9 million contract to be Defence’s Systems Integration Partner (SIP) in Line of Effort 1 of its Counter-Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems (C-SUAS) Project LAND156. The announcement by Pat Conroy, Minister for Defence Industry, comes…
The Department of Defence has awarded three companies contracts worth $9 million for the development of Information Warfare and Quantum Technologies through the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator’s (ASCA) Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDT) program. The Department says the contracts are…
Perth-based Hofmann Engineering has received a Request for Quotation from US company Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding to supply components for the construction of US Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. It could begin supplying components as early as 2026.…
Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) has signed the Copperhead Project Arrangement (PA) with the United Kingdom’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). This will bring together cutting-edge technologies from both countries to develop affordable, next-generation guided weapons systems,…