The Royal Australian Navy’s Hobart-class destroyer, HMAS Sydney, has conducted a successful firing of the Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile (NSM), Navy’s replacement for the ageing Harpoon weapon system. The firing was conducted during Exercise RIMPAC 2024, being hosted by the United States…
Adelaide-based Silentium Defence Pty Ltd has delivered the first tranche of five passive radar systems to Lockheed Martin Australia for Australia’s Joint Air Battle Management System (JABMS) under Project AIR6500. Passive radars do not emit radio signals so are extremely difficult…
Canberra-based Electro Optic Systems (EOS) has demonstrated its Laser Dazzler technology at Canada's Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) Sandbox event. This year’s event focussed on Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems (CUAS) and counter-drone prototypes were put to the test…
The Australian defence and space industry will manufacture a new space camera that can provide images back to Earth at high speed to aid in disaster resilience operations, land management, and defence. This multi-sensor camera for Earth observation is now…
Canberra-based Lockheed Martin Australia has rebranded its Science, Technology, Engineering Leadership and Research Laboratory (STELaRLab) in Melbourne as Advanced Systems and Technologies to better align with the mission-directed objectives and capability development needs of the Australian Defence Force. Established in…
Brisbane-based Boeing Defence Australia has signed a contract with Lockheed Martin Australia to deliver the deployed communications elements of the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) next generation Joint Air Battle Management System (JABMS) under Project AIR6500. Drawing on the technology developed for…
At EX Valiant Shield 24, Arlington-based Raytheon demonstrated a simulated complex missile engagement leveraging the US Army's Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, or LTAMDS, and Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System, IBCS, launching the US Navy's…
Charles Darwin University has become a member of the Queensland Defence Science Alliance (QDSA), a node of DSTG’s Australian Defence Science and Universities Network (ADSUN). ADSUN brings together research institutes and industry to find solutions for defence problems. Charles Darwin…
Defence will invest over $100 million acquiring 110 ‘drones’ from two Australian manufacturers of lightweight surveillance and reconnaissance Uncrewed Air Systems (UAS) and augment the ADF’s existing stock of UASs. The Quantum-Systems Vector 2-in-1and SYPAQ Systems CorvoX were trialled along…
Australian soldiers will be equipped with US company AeroVironment’s Switchblade 300 Block 20 precision loitering munition, providing a critical combat edge and adding to drone capabilities available to the Australian Defence Force (ADF), says the Department of Defence. The first Switchblade…