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Hawkei

An Australian Army Hawkei Protected Mobility Vehicle - Light ready for final delivery to the Royal Australian Air Force at RAAF Base Amberley. Story by Gabriella Sudano. Photos by Leading Aircraftwoman Taylor Anderson.
News Royal Australian Air Force 

RAAF capability boosted by Hawkei

23/09/202527/09/2025 Posted by Mike Hughes 3586 Views 0 Comments Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG), Hawkei, No. 2 Security Forces Squadron, RAAF Amberley

Defence’s Land Systems Division handed over the final Australian Army Hawkei Protected Mobility Vehicle – Light (PMV-L) to the Royal

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Corporal Dylan Curran, of 6th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, is one of this year's Jonathan Church Good Soldiering Award recipients. Story by Corporal Michael Rogers.
ADF People Health and Wellbeing 

Giving help – and asking for it

01/03/202305/03/2023 Posted by Mike Hughes 2053 Views 2 Comments Hawkei, Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps (RAAOC)

CAPTION: Corporal Dylan Curran, of 6th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, is one of this year’s Jonathan Church Good Soldiering Award

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A Hawkei Protected Mobility Vehicle – Light on the flight deck of the Royal Australian Navy amphibious ship HMAS Adelaide during trials at Fleet Base East in Sydney. Photo by Leading Seaman Nicolas Gonzalez.
Australian Australian Army News Royal Australian Navy Science & Technology 

Hawkei visits the Navy in Sydney

18/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 6273 Views 0 Comments Hawkei, PMV-L

Hawkei underwent testing on-board HMAS Adelaide at Fleet Base East in Sydney last Saturday to assess its integration and ability

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Australian Australian Army Middle East News Operations Science & Technology Videos 

Hawkei delivered for testing on ops

13/01/201815/01/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 8468 Views 0 Comments Hawkei

The Hawkei Protected Mobility Vehicle – Light, in two- and four-door variants were photographed recently at the Taji Military Complex,

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RAAF Base Amberley Air Movements personnel guide Australian Army WO2 James Moss as he reverses a Hawkei into a C-17A Globemaster. Photo by Corporal Ben Dempster.
Australian Australian Army News Operations Science & Technology 

Hawkei deploying on operations

05/12/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 9003 Views 0 Comments Hawkei

Two Hawkei Protected Mobility Vehicle Light (PMV-L) have been sent overseas on operations. CAPTION: RAAF Base Amberley Air Movements personnel guide Australian

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A NASAMS high-mobility launcher on a HMMWV, firing an AMRAAM missile. An Australian NASAMS is likely to be carried by Hawkei. Raytheon photo.
Australian Australian Army News Science & Technology 

ADF releases images of future missile-defence platform

14/09/201714/09/2017 Posted by Brian Hartigan 9495 Views 1 Comment Hawkei, NASAMS, Raytheon

As reported in April, Defence commissioned Raytheon to develop a short-range ground-based air-defence system to improve protection for deployed personnel –

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An Australian Army Hawkei protected mobility vehicle, one of the Army's new generation of combat vehciles, during Exercise Predator's Gallop in Cultana training area, South Australia, on 12 March 2016. Photo by Corporal Nunu Campos.
ADF Australian News Science & Technology 

Last of initial-production Hawkei delivered

14/11/201620/11/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 10193 Views 0 Comments Hawkei

A major milestone has been reached in the military’s next generation Hawkei protected vehicle project as two new Hawkei protected

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ADF Australian News Science & Technology 

Aussie Hawkei wins $billion ADF contract

05/10/201517/10/2015 Posted by Brian Hartigan 11842 Views 1 Comment Hawkei, Thales

The Aussie-designed-and-built Hawkei has won the ADF’s contract for a light protected mobility vehicle. Designed and built by Thales in Bendigo,

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News Science & Technology 

Hawkei undergoes water-fording tests

02/10/201513/10/2015 Posted by Brian Hartigan 6774 Views 1 Comment Hawkei, LAND 121 Phase 4, Thales

Hawkei underwent water-fording and salt-water/beach testing in Monegeetta, Victoria, last month. Hawkei is an Australian designed and built in Project LAND 121 Phase

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