Thales Australia breaks ground on Lithgow Arms facility
Thales Australia’s Lithgow Arms business marked the beginning of a new industrial era for its Lithgow facility and 140-strong workforce, with a sod turning ceremony to commence construction of a new $6.5 million building, the first phase of an...
International partner orders material kits for Fuchs/Fox 2 armoured vehicles
An international partner has placed a follow-up order with Rheinmetall to supply material kits for the Fuchs/Fox 2 wheeled armoured vehicle. This new order, which also encompasses an initial supply of spare parts, is worth around €250 million. Delivery...
New era as F90 assault rifle enters Australian Defence Force service
New era as F90 assault rifle enters Australian Defence Force service
Thales’s F90 rifle is to enter Australian Defence Force service, marking a new era for our soldiers and their weapons.The Australian Department of Defence has signed an AUD 100...
Decision time approaches
Normal.dotm
0
0
1
742
4234
Bob-Jet Building Services
35
8
5199
12.2560
false18 pt
18 pt
0
0false
false
false/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin:0cm;
mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}Project Overlander – LAND 121 – seems to be suffering from a sort of curse which results in unexpected levels of complexity at...
Babcock team to offer Bell 429 for Army Special Forces helicopter program
Babcock has down selected the Bell 429 helicopter in its bid for the LAND 2097 Phase 4 Project to support the Australian Defence Force’s Special Operations helicopter capability.Babcock Australasia’s Managing Director – Land, Graeme Nayler, said the Bell 429...
Rheinmetall consolidates Defence units
Rheinmetall creates Europe’s leading producer of military vehicles, offering a comprehensive array of tracked and wheeled vehicle systems
Rheinmetall AG has decided to consolidate its Defence unit’s extensive military vehicle activities in a new division called “Vehicle Systems”. As a...
NIOA boosts sovereign testing capability as it targets LAND 159 T2
NIOA has revealed its upgraded small arms testing complex following a multi-million dollar investment to support the next-generation weapons systems for Australian soldiers. Building on its state-of-the-art testing capability in Brisbane, NIOA has injected an additional $1.1 million in...
Army presented with East Timor Theatre Honour on its 119th birthday
The Australian Army has been presented with the Theatre Honour East Timor 1999-2003 during a parade in Canberra, as part of its 119th birthday celebration.Presented by the Governor-General, His Excellency General (Retd) the Honourable David Hurley, AC, DSC, the...
Thales Australia to develop new carbon fibres for overwrapped gun barrels
Defence contractor Thales Australia has entered into a collaboration with Deakin University and the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (IMCRC) to develop a lightweight composite overwrap for gun barrels. The six-month, $234,023 research and development (R&D) project will deliver...
Craig International Ballistics wins ADF soft body armour contract
Gold Coast company Craig International Ballistics has won a contract to deliver Australian-manufactured soft body armour to the Australian Defence Force (ADF).The announcement by Minister for Defence Industry Melissa Price said the initial $1 million contract will see the...
