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ALL F 35 MAINTENANCE TO BE PERFORMED IN AUSTRALIA

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...
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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...
ADF provides support to flooding

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

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

 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

  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

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.

 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...
Gen 3 Vietnam LaddReef 10November2025

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...

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