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Australian Army Boxer combat reconnaissance vehicles will be connected by the Army's new C$ EDGE systems. Photo by Trooper Jonathan Goedhart.
Australian Australian Army News Science & Technology 

EOS to lead all-Australian delivery of C4 EDGE

14/12/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3993 Views 0 Comments

Electro Optic Systems has won a $34m contract to lead an All-Australian delivery of the Army’s C4 EDGE program.

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A Royal Australian Air Force F-35A Lighting II aircraft conducts a flypast of HMAS Hobart during an air warfare serial off the coast of New South Wales. Photo by Leading Seaman Leo Baumgartner.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology 

All three Hobart-class destroyers exercise together

12/12/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3745 Views 0 Comments

All three Hobart-class destroyers have exercised together for the first time, demonstrating their cooperative-engagement capabilities.

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Australian Army officer Lieutenant Jackson Healy, 2RAR, on Exercise RIMPAC 2018. INSETS: Top; a fused image in 'outline' mode and bottom; a regular night-vision image. The minister also supplied the main image to illustrate this story, but we don't know if the device Lt Healy is wearing is the device in question. Main photo by Corporal Kyle Genner.
Australian Australian Army News Science & Technology 

ADF orders new NVGs with augmented reality

10/12/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 6621 Views 0 Comments

Some ADF will soon get new night-fighting capability that combines low-light augmentation, thermal imagery and augmented reality.

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Australia's first two F-35As to be based on home soil – A35-009 and A35-010 – arrive at RAAF Base Williamtown. Photo by Brian Hartigan.
Australian News Science & Technology 

Aussie businesses clock up $2.7billion in JSF contracts

09/12/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2178 Views 0 Comments

More than 50 Australian companies have so far shared in $2.7 billion in F-35 Joint Strike Fighter parts production contracts.

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Thales image
Australian News Science & Technology 

Thales Research and Development Team in Lithgow to double

08/12/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2153 Views 0 Comments

The Small Arms Research & Development team in Lithgow is about to double as the Thales anticipates a digitised battlespace for the ADF.

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HIFiRE 5b rocket launches successfully at the Woomera Test Range in South Australia on May 18, 2016. Photo by Corporal Bill Solomou
Australian News Royal Australian Air Force Science & Technology 

Aust/US collab on hypersonic missiles

01/12/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2405 Views 0 Comments

Australia has renewed a research partnership with the USA to develop hypersonic missiles for high-speed long-range strike capabilities.

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Subsea Craft VICTA rigged for airdrop.
Europe News Overseas Science & Technology 

Subsea craft could get wings too

27/11/202027/11/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2500 Views 0 Comments

SubSea Craft has partnered with IrvinGQ to develop a parachute-deployment option for its surface-submersible craft, VICTA.

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A C-130J Hercules overflies a Royal Australian Navy Collins-class submarine off the WA coast. Photo by Corporal David Gibbs.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology 

New Maritime Underwater Tracking Range to be built off WA

25/11/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2295 Views 0 Comments

A new Maritime Underwater Tracking Range will be built in Western Australia to replace the original system that ceased operating in 2012.

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ADF Australian News Science & Technology 

$10million for artificial intelligence innovation

25/11/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1806 Views 0 Comments

Government hopes a $10 million investment in artificial intelligence capabilities will give Australia an edge across all Defence domains.

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Navy WarpSPEE3D 3D metal Printer installed at HMAS Coonawarra, Darwin – with (inset) a part printed in the machine. Images supplied.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology 

WarpSPEE3D printer installed at Navy base

23/11/202023/11/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1867 Views 0 Comments

The Royal Australian Navy has installed its own WarpSPEE3D metal printer at HMAS Coonawarra in Darwin after seeing what Army could do.

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Chironix image
Australian News Science & Technology 

Perth company working on robot battlefield stretcher bearer

23/11/202023/11/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2104 Views 0 Comments

A Perth technology company is working with Defence to develop a robotic system to battlefield enable casualties evacuation.

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HMAS Arunta sporting her distinctive CEAFAR2-L phased array radar developed by Australian company CEA Technologies. Photo by Leading Seaman Kylie Jagiello.
Australian News Science & Technology 

Govt plan to support Aussie radar makers

18/11/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2846 Views 0 Comments

Defence Industry minister announces Sovereign Industrial Capability Priority Plan for active phased array and passive radar capability.

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A student from The 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment, (Queensland Mounted Infantry) negotiates the obstacle course at Green Bank Training Area during the first driver training conversion course for the Australian Army’s Boxer Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle. Photo by Corporal Nicole Dorrett.
Australian Australian Army News Science & Technology 

Adaptable facilities being built for new fighting vehicles

09/11/202009/11/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4464 Views 0 Comments

Aurecon and AECOM are building innovative adaptable facilities for the Army’s armoured fighting vehicle fleet in Victoria, Queensland and SA.

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A RAAF EA-18G Growler. Photo by Sergeant Guy Young
Australian News Royal Australian Air Force Science & Technology 

Aussie ingenuity powers increased fighter-engine work

09/11/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1866 Views 0 Comments

Australian business TAE Aerospace has significantly increased its share of maintenance work on the F414 engines that power the RAAF’s

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Australian News Science & Technology 

Huge response to artificial intelligence call

09/11/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1932 Views 0 Comments

Experts in artificial intelligence have rallied to a call from Defence and ONI for solutions to key Defence and security challenges.

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Army Staff Cadet Oscar Fowler from the Royal Military College Duntroon explains his prototype chemical-threats sensor. Photographer unnamed.
Australian Australian Army News Science & Technology Videos 

Staff cadet invents chemical-threat Canary Sensor

08/11/202008/11/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2890 Views 0 Comments

Army Staff Cadet Oscar Fowler has developed a prototype ‘Canary Sensor’ to detect harmful gases, with potential military and civilian uses.

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Titan1 unmanned ground vehicles used during Exercise Genesis as part of the Royal Australian Navy's Autonomous Warrior 2020-4. Unknown photographer.
ADF Australian News Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology 

Navy tests robots in disaster-relief exercise

05/11/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2236 Views 0 Comments

Royal Australian Navy and defence industry have put robots to the test in a simulated counter-disaster operation in Brisbane.

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Survey boat Polaris was launched from HMAS Adelaide for the first time during Exercise Sea Wader 2020. Photo by Able Seaman Sittichai Sakonpoonpol.
Australian News Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology 

New era in Navy survey capabilities launched

05/11/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2831 Views 0 Comments

A new type of survey craft that will improve Navy’s geospatial survey capabilities has been launched from HMAS Adelaide for the first time.

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An Australian Army staff cadet from Royal Military College, Duntroon, combines ingredients during a lecture on ration packs at the Majura training area. Photo by Sergeant Bill Solomou.
Australian News Science & Technology 

Defence reaching out in freeze-dried food sector

04/11/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3516 Views 1 Comment

Defence is partnering with a Tasmanian company that specialises in the production of freeze-dried foods to aid food innovation and production.

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NZDF personnel test equipment during a training exercise at Lake Alta in the Remarkables mountain range near Queenstown in preparation for deploying to Antarctica this summer. NZDF photo.
New Zealand News Science & Technology 

NZDF hydro team prep for Antarctica

30/10/202030/10/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2363 Views 0 Comments

Military hydrographers are among NZDF bound for Antarctica as part of the NZDF’s long-standing support to Antarctic scientific programs.

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