All F-35 maintenance to be performed in Australia
Joint Strike Fighter
All F-35 maintenance to be performed in Australia
Byline: Kym Bergmann / Canberra
Speaking to the media on August 23 August in Canberra, Lockheed...
Airbus-built OneSat tapped for first Omani satellite
Space Communication Technologies (SCT), Oman’s national satellite operator, has awarded a contract to Airbus Defence and Space for OmanSat-1 a state-of-the-art fully reconfigurable high...
Helicopters-There is nothing wrong with Tiger and Taipan – the problem is Defence logistics
This startling conclusion is the culmination of several years of effort to find out why Australia has had disproportionate problems keeping our 22 Tiger...
Air 87
Modern weapon systems and complex platforms demand the increasing attention of their operators and maintainers. This, in turn, demands greater focus on training -...
AIR 5428
AIR 5428
TRAINING PILOTS IN THE 21st CENTURY
Byline: Nigel Pittaway / Melbourne
The Australian Defence Force’s programme to deliver a Pilot Training System (PTS) which will...
ADF COMMUNICATIONS
ADF COMMUNICATIONS
Swift and Sure Future Communications
In recent months Australia’s spy agencies had intercepted and analysed messages from within the Kamerian Defence Force, (yes, it’s...
Australia purchases HIMARS
The Australian Government has announced the purchase of 20 Lockheed Martin High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), and associated hardware, for an estimated cost...
Australia’s recapitalized fleet
Airlift
Australia’s recapitalized fleet
Byline: Kym Bergmann/ Canberra & Dzirhan Mahadzir / Kuala Lumpur
As a consequence of a number of decisions taken during the last two...
Battlefield airlifter.
Battlefield airlifter.
Making sense of AIR 8000 Phase 2.
Kym Bergmann / Canberra
There have been several recent developments in the effort to replace RAAF’s retired Caribou...
When commercial EO becomes infrastructure
Across the Asia-Pacific, defence organisations are rapidly integrating commercial Earth observation (EO) into their intelligence architectures. Satellite imagery once used primarily for supplemental insight...
















