In part 1, I considered the implications of sustaining and upgrading the RAAF’s F/A-18F Super Hornet fleet (alongside the E/A-18G Growler) as an alternative to buying an additional squadron of F-35s. It’s the next big …
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Australia’s deteriorating security outlook, and what it means for our strategic relationships and our defence planning, has been a hot topic of late. Two key articles, by Paul Dibb and Peter Jennings, highlight the growing …
The conference rooms scattered through Lockheed Martin Australia’s headquarters in Canberra are each named after high-achieving scientists and other thinkers and doers—and they’re all Australians. That was done deliberately to highlight the fact that the …
Sea state Australia’s third and final Hobart-class Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) was launched in a ceremony last weekend. NUSHIP Sydney was built by ASC at Osborne Naval Shipyard, South Australia, and is based on Spanish …
Sea state The Royal Australian Navy has completed verification trials of a new drone. The Camcopter S-100 is made of titanium and carbon fibre and is designed to navigate via preprogrammed GPS waypoints, improving the …