The first AH-64E Apache attack reconnaissance helicopter for the Australian Army has entered final assembly on the Boeing production line in Mesa, Arizona, and the first four are scheduled to be delivered by the end of 2025. Designated AT001, the…
The Australian Army’s newly-designated innovation and experimentation unit, the 1st Armoured Regiment, has taken part in the US Army’s classified Project Convergence Capstone 5 (PCC5) alongside part of the British Army’s Robotics and Autonomous Battle Group. The exercise, in a…
The Australian Army has taken delivery of its first two of a planned 42 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HiMARS) launcher vehicles, less than two years after the purchase was announced. Defence will spend $1.6 billion to equip the Army’s…
Canberra-based defence technology company Kord Group has won an $11 million Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from Booz Allen Hamilton to provide an advanced version of its core Rifle Input Control technology to the US Army. The company’s…
Sydney-based Advanced Navigation will provide Rheinmetall Defence Australia with Fibre-Optic Gyroscope (FOG) Inertial Navigation Systems (INS), for Rheinmetall’s Boxer Combat Reconnaissance Vehicles (CRV). This follows a previous deal which saw Advanced Navigation provide 200+ FOG INS to Rheinmetall in 2021…
The Australian Army and US Marine Corps have conducted a joint trial of Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled autonomous uncrewed systems at Marine Corps base Quantico in the USA. fly over Northern Virginia. The trial saw an Uncrewed Air System (UAS)…
The Australian Army is calling on defence industry and academia to pitch innovative capabilities to optimise the soldier for littoral operations as part of Army Innovation Day 2024 (AID24). Hosted by the Australian Army as part of the Chief of…
The Australian Army has participated in the US-led Project Convergence, testing and developing networks, robotic and autonomous systems, air defence and strike-related systems at two locations in California. Project Convergence is a campaign of learning through persistent experimentation. It was…
For the first time, Australian Army training now includes counter-drone tactics and engagement. A drone target shoot was included on Exercise Iron Warrior, the culminating live-fire exercise on the Army’s mechanised regimental officers’ course. The serial was added in response…
The Australian Army has issued a next generation technology challenge related to Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the mine detection/mine clearance role. The Quantum Next Generation (QNG) is a series of technology challenges that the Army has created to help…