Defence has established its new Littoral Manoeuvre Group at Gallipoli Barracks, Brisbane. The group will strengthen Army’s ability to move, deploy and support land forces across coastal and island regions, says Defence. Based in Brisbane, the Littoral Manoeuvre Group Headquarters and the 1st…
Defence has now placed orders worth some $5 billion for 26 Landing Craft Medium and Heavy for the Australian Army. These contracts, signed with Defence’s strategic Western Australian shipbuilder, Austal Defence Australia, represent a major investment in Australia’s sovereign shipbuilding capability,…
The Australian Army has tested Counter small Uncrewed Aerial System (C-sUAS) capabilities acquired under Project LAND156 at its Cultana Range urban training facility in South Australia. EX Southern Arrow 25 the Army culminated in a successful live-fire demonstration. This was…
Canberra-based Electro Optic Systems Holdings Limited (EOS) has been awarded a $108 million contract to supply R400 Remote Weapon Systems (RWS) for the Australian Army’s AS21 Redback Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFV). These are being acquired under Project LAND400 Phase 3.…
The US Army’s 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force (MDTF) deployed a Typhon missile launcher Mid-Range Capability (MRC) to Australia and conducted an SM-6 live fire in July, successfully sinking a maritime target in support of EX Talisman Sabre 25. This was…
The Australian Army’s 1st Armoured Regiment (1AR) has tested the Army’s experimental Modular Robotic Vehicle (MRV) with Remote Weapon Stations (RWS) and First-Person View Drones (FPVD), for the first time in a combat field environment. The MRV currently uses an…
The Australian Army’s contribution to the ADF’s Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD) system took a step forward during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025 when 16th Regiment’s National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System (NASAMS) fired two AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air…
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…