Australia’s second Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) amphibious assault ship, NUSHIP Adelaide, is on passage between Melbourne and Sydney at the beginning of its sea trials.

Airbus Group Pacific has acquired Safe Air, one of New Zealand’s best known maintenance, repair and overhaul operations.

Australian Defence Force personnel have begun training with the AeroVironment Wasp small unmanned aircraft system.

Selex ES has received a contract from Embraer Defense and Security to provide an undisclosed number of Gabbiano T20 radar systems for the KC-390 transport aircraft procured by the Brazilian Air Force (Força Aérea Brasileira, FAB).

Cobham Aviation Services will support the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) Predator/Reaper remotely piloted aircraft in Royal Air Force service, under a new teaming agreement with General Atomics that also covers future opportunities in Australia.

Maritime security operations by Australian and New Zealand frigates operating in the Middle East region during the past six weeks have seized almost a tonne of narcotics worth an estimated street value of $811 million.

BMT Design and Technology and DSTO will research possible technologies for Australia’s future submarine, after securing funding through the Australian Defence Science Institute’s Collaboration Research Grant Scheme.

Malaysia’s 2015 Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition LIMA held in March, was the busiest ever, according to show organisers, with contracts and documents worth RM9.3 billion (A$3.36 billion) signed over the three trade show days.

It is normal to hear that military-grade systems and materials filter their way through to racing and street cars, but BAE Systems has gone the other way, incorporating Formula 1 car technology in to its tracked vehicles.

With deliveries of the MH-60R Seahawk Romeo helicopter almost at the half way mark, the Royal Australian Navy yesterday recommissioned 725 Squadron to train its crews.

Germany’s Federal Ministry of Defence has chosen MBDA’s Medium Extended Air Defence System (MEADS) as the basis of its national missile-based Tactical Air Defence System, selecting the locally developed product over an updated version of the Patriot system it has used since the 1980s.

Australian Defence Force members will receive a pay increase of two percent each year, after the independent Defence Force Remuneration Tribunal (DFRT) approved a new Government proposal.

The engine stall and fire that forced a Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II pilot to abort his takeoff and abandon the aircraft on the runway on June 3 last year has been traced to a turbine rotor arm.

The field of contenders for Land 400 is dwindling.

Two Indian Navy Ships (INS) Satpura and Kamorta have been conducting training and security patrols while transiting the Indian Ocean and are now in Fremantle today on a goodwill visit.

Airbus Defence and Space has confirmed that the investigation in to the cause of the May 9 Airbus A400m crash that killed four people and injured two is now centred on the aircraft’s engine control system.