The US military is adopting a new service cartridge, designed for greater lethality against adversaries wearing modern body armour and at much longer range than the 5.56 NATO cartridge.

In his address to ADM’s Congress in February, then-Acting Head Land Capability, Brigadier Ian Langford, laid out the case to enable Army to have a combined arms approach to modern peer-on-peer warfare.

Ventia has collaborated with ECLIPS, an Australian, veteran-owned business to design and build the Complete Equipment Schedule (CES) Cradle Platforms for Land 8120.

Less than six months after the selection in March of lnsitu Pacific’s Integrator UAS to replace the RQ-7B Shadow 200 as Army’s premier tactical UAS, the first pilot training course has been successfully completed, Australian manufacture was underway, and initial deliveries were set for 2023.

The Skylark I-LEX SUAS+ contract will support the Army’s UAS capabilities by supplying a bespoke system for Australia Defence Force and civilian support in disaster and humanitarian relief operations.

The Army’s new Boxer Combat Reconnaissance Vehicles have made their first overseas deployment, accompanying personnel from various Defence and other Australian government agencies to the Indo-Pacific region on board HMAS Adelaide.

The US State Department has approved the potential sale of CH-47F helicopters and related equipment to the Republic of Korea for an estimated cost of US$1.5 billion (A$2.24 billion).

Textron's Bell has won the US Army’s competition to build the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA), set to replace the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter which has been in service for more than four decades.

The industry bids are in for the Commonwealth’s Land 8710 Phase 1 program to acquire a vessel for Army intended to provide both ship-to-shore connectivity and a means of manoeuvre and sustainment in the littoral and riverine environments.

The snaking coastline of Australia’s northern border is one of the most isolated and exposed in the world; an open gate to illegal fishing, illegal arrivals, drug-running and other threats to national security.

Hanwha Aerospace has conducted a technology demonstration of the Arion-SMET unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) at Camp Humphreys, a US Army Garrison in South Korea, proving the vehicle’s mature robotic and unmanned technologies.

The first of Army’s Hanwha AS9 Huntsman SPHs is due to roll off the production line in Korea in the third quarter of 2025 and the first vehicle off Hanwha Defense Australia’s line at Avalon Airport near Geelong will follow a matter of weeks later.

Both multi-billion dollar phases of the most expensive acquisition project in the history of the Australian Army are facing uncertainties in implementation.

The Australian Government confirmed today that it will consider the findings of the Defence Strategic Review before deciding on the tender for the Land 400 Phase 3 Infantry Fighting Vehicle project.

Penske Australia has signed a deed of agreement with Rheinmetall Defence Australia for the assembly of powerpacks for Boxer Combat Reconnaissance Vehicles.

Personnel from the Army’s 161 Reconnaissance Squadron, which operates the Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter, visited Singapore’s AH-64 Apache helicopter gunship squadron to learn more about the platform Australia will be acquiring in the future.