Making news today on 26 March 2025:
- Lockheed Martin has delivered an initial shipment of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to Australia.
- Boeing Defence Australia (BDA) has been selected to maintain the Australian Army’s new Airbus H135 ‘Juno’ training helicopter fleet.
- Anduril Australia has delivered a UAS and intrusion detection system for a RAAF trial
- Principle Finance, a provider of customised operating lease for aircraft in Australia, has acquired two Bombardier Challenger 650 aircraft destined for ISR missions.
- Boeing's MQ-28 Ghost Bat has flown its 100th flight.
- The Defence budget has inched upwards, increasing just one per cent in real terms on the 2024-25 funding to account for 2.05 per cent of GDP.
- More than five years after Australia was approved to buy AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles, Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18F Super Hornets of No. 1 Squadron successfully test-fired the munition for the first time
- DroneShield has released its UAS Incident platform