With the election looming, Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy has urged the Coalition to match Labor’s defence budget so that defence doesn’t become an election campaign football | Max Blenkin

The overarching Strategic Direction Statement in the 2024-25 Defence Budget referred to ‘tough but necessary’ decisions by Government to cancel, divest, delay or re-scope projects or activities that were not critical to delivering the force required by Australia’s strategic circumstances | Julian Kerr |

EOS has launched its new R500 Remote Weapon System during the International Defence Exhibition & Conference 2025 in Abu Dhabi.

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QinetiQ's Team TECSA has expanded to include BosTECK, DEWC Services and Mercury Information Security Services. 

Army's fleet of UH-60M Black Hawks have achieved initial operating capability fifteen months after the first aircraft began flying in Australia. 

The Australian High Commission in Sri Lanka handed over a Kongsberg EM2042 shallow water multi-beam echo sounder to the Sri Lanka Navy Hydrographic Service on 18 February. 

Yaffa Media – the parent company of the Australian Defence Magazine - is one of Australia’s largest independent media companies and has remained an independent operation with significant growth and diversification over the past 100 years.

Textron Aviation will construct a new service facility at Essendon Fields Airport in Melbourne to support Cessna, Beechcraft and Hawker aircraft operators in Australia's region. 

A Royal New Zealand Air Force SH-2G(I) Super Seasprite fired a Penguin Mk2 Mod 7 missile for the first time last week.

BAE Systems Australia has welcomed its largest ever intake of apprentices in South Australia. 

Maximilian Doemling has been appointed as Advanced Navigation's Head of Product Management.

ASC has welcomed 81 new apprentices and graduates to the company's workforce in South Australia and Western Australia.

Austal has been awarded a contract worth between $265-275 million to build a 130 metre ferry for Gotlandsbolaget of Sweden. 

DroneShield has officially been registered with the Australian and American Governments so that it can take advantage of the partial AUKUS International Trafficking in Arms Regulations exemption.

The Japan Self Defense Forces have placed an order with Boeing for 17 CH-47JA Block II Chinooks Extended Range helicopters.