As part of the RAAF’s ongoing program to ‘normalise’ unmanned aerial systems (UAS) operations in Australian airspace..

In another first for the recently concluded Pitch Black air defence exercise held in the NT, Northrop Grumman’s Joint Threat Emitter System (JTE) was used to provide a credible surface to air threat.

Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) will soon be supplying the Lithuanian armed forces with 88 Boxer multirole armoured fighting vehicles.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded a contract worth around £184 million for ASRAAM missile.

Raytheon Company has received an initial contract to produce Naval Strike Missile (NSM) launchers at its production facility in Arizona.

Advents in advanced materials processing, such as additive manufacturing, are producing promising novel materials that are of interest to the aerospace, defence and energy sectors.

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a US$10 billion contract for the support the C-130J program.

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Saab has signed a contract to upgrade the Army’s RBS 70 ground-based air defence weapon system and Giraffe AMB radar.

Exercise Pitch Black 2016, the largest air power exercise held in Australia and the RAAF’s largest training activity this year, will draw to a close on Friday.

The first RAAF Lockheed C-130J-30 Hercules to be upgraded with a Link 16 Tactical Data Link (TDL) system began operational test and evaluation in Darwin late last week.

A recent $255,000 contract for Project Definition Study for Replacement Program with Execujet Australia and another for Skytraders sees CASG taking an active interest in the replacement of the VIP fleet one can assume.

The Australian Business Defence Industry Unit hosted a range of Defence and Defence Industry leadership last week

Meggitt Training Systems has been awarded an $US18 million contract from CASG

The US Navy has tested and deployed the AeroVironment RQ-20B Puma small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) aboard a Flight I Guided Missile Destroyer (DDG Class).

Two equipment modifications designed to make the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s ejection seat safe for use by lightweight pilots will wrap up testing by the second week of September