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POSEIDON’S FIRST STRIKE    The Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) P-8A Poseidon aircraft has successfully fired its first Harpoon missile during Exercise RIMPAC 18. The ATM-84J Harpoon...

Australian Defence Force to be tested by air, land and sea in Pacific Rim The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is playing a key role in...

Wedgetail Byline: Kym Bergmann / CanberraIntroductionOne of the more complex and fraught Defence acquisitions of recent times has been the purchase of six ‘Wedgetail’ airborne...

SEA 1448 Phase 2Anti-Ship Missile Defence impressive progressByline: Kym Bergmann / CanberraIntroduction.The project to give the Navy’s eight Anzac frigates the ability to defend...

: SEA 1000 WHAT LIES BENEATH?Byline: Rex Patrick / SydneyDefence Funding Implosion - Submarine Cost Explosion “The numbers tell the story. Next year the defence budget...

LAND 136 Phase 1Funding Approval given for Army mortar replacementsByline: Geoff Slocombe / VictoriaTo be effective in the increasingly complex environments now being encountered,...

New ZealandTHREE SERVICES, ONE FORCETe Ope Katua O AotearoaByline: Geoff Slocombe / New ZealandLike its Australian counterparts, the NZDF has been sustaining a much...

SEA 1000 FUTURE SUBMARINES – GETTING “STRAIT” TO THE POINT Rex Patrick / SydneyA 2015, not 2030 Problem For several years now defence analysts, official or otherwise,...

SEA 1000 THE LESSONS OF COLLINSByline: Rex Patrick / SydneyINTRODUCTION Midway through last month Professor Hugh White wrote an article in The Melborne Age entitled “Our...

 SEA 1000 COLLINS CLASS – LIFE EXTEND OR EUTHENASE?IntroductionAt February’s Senate Estimate hearings, Defence acknowledged for the first time that a submarine capability gap is...