As Australia’s strategic geography grows more central to the military balance in the Indo-Pacific, upgrading the training ranges around the country is increasingly prioritised | Ewen Levick

Exercise Highball has concluded in Lancelin, Western Australia with the live fire of long-range land-based rocket artillery against a maritime target.

Indonesia received its long-promised Bushmasters from Australia yesterday | Ben Felton

Craig International Ballistics announced it has secured nearly $10 million in new orders from a military customer to supply a range of personal body armour products.

The Army has taken delivery of the first two new Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters, beginning the end of European ascendancy in the Australian Defence Force helicopter fleet | Max Blenkin

Australian engineering company Luminact has been awarded a contract to deliver eighty-four next generation mobile retransmission systems for the Australian Defence Force.

The strategic Torres Strait and far north of Australia has very much flown under the radar for many defence watchers, but it is certainly an area of vital interest to Australia | Mike Yeo

Queensland munitions company NIOA has installed a new ballistics data acquisition system at their testing complex in Brisbane, capable of measuring real-time projectile velocity and location.

The US Army has conducted the first ever live firing of its long-range MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) on Australian soil during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2023 | Nigel Pittaway

Western Australia hosted a joint United States-Australian exercise on July 29 to explore how the Australian Defence Force (ADF) can employ long-range fires capabilities for both land and maritime strike.

First pass approval of LAND 200 Phase 3 Battlefield Command Systems project names Systematic as a sole-source tenderer for Tranche 1 Battle Management System – Command and Control software applications.

The ADF deployed technicians and health personnel under Operation Render Safe to support the assessment and safe disposal of an unexploded ordnance, discovered at a residential and industrial area in Nauru.

Hanwha Defense Australia has secured the contract to build 129 Redback infantry fighting vehicles for the Commonwealth under Land 400 Phase 3.

The New Zealand Ministry of Defence is struggling to complete its major equipment acquisition programs despite introducing new capabilities to the NZDF, due to lack of personnel and the long-term impact of COVID-19.

Personnel from seven nations combined their skills in a live fire exercise in the Shoalwater Bay Training Area (SWBTA) on the opening day of Exercise Talisman Sabre 2023.

SitaWare software from Danish company Systematic has been sole-sourced for Army’s new digital command and control system under Project Land 200 Phase 3 Tranche 1, a CASG industry brief advised on 24 July.