The Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) Wedgetail aircraft has finally achieved Initial Operational Capability.

As rumoured at the recent Land Warfare Conference, BAE Systems and EXPAL Systems have teamed to bid for Australia's Domestic Munitions Manufacturing Arrangements (DMMA) project.

US Air Force Space Command announced last week that the fifth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite's launch will not occur in January as planned, a ripple effect of the Air Force's ongoing analysis of what went wrong during an early October launch of a GPS satellite in Florida, which is functioning properly and undamaged during the launch.

A rather bland and not very informative report in the recently published RAAA Journal Ironsides provides an update on the Land 400 Land Combat Vehicle System which has some parallels with the US Ground Combat Vehicle program.

Iveco - Oto Melara Consortium (CIO) has announced its intention to offer its extensive range of proven armoured vehicles for the Land 400 program.

With Second Pass for Land 400 out to 2018-2021 and the Initial Operational Capability anticipated for 2026-2028 one has to wonder what is being done to extend the life of the Army's ASLAV fleet since the planned Phase 4 mid-life upgrade that was to have commenced in 2012, appears to have evaporated.

General Dynamics Land Systems has displayed the current Australian Light Armoured Vehicle (ASLAV) and Light Armoured Vehicle II (LAV II) Double-V Hull demonstrator vehicle at Techport, South Australia.

As part of last week's AUSMIN discussions, an memorandum of understanding was signed regarding the establishment of a jointly-operated C-band radar space surveillance installation at the Harold E. Holt naval communication facility in Exmouth, Western Australia.

The RAAF has unveiled a unique tail art scheme on one of its C-130H Hercules transport aircraft, ahead of the type's retirement from service on November 30.

BMT Defence Services, a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd has celebrated first place at this year's Industry Powerboat Challenge organised by QinetiQ.

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The US Army is considering a foreign-made active protection system for its Ground Combat Vehicle but wants the program's technology-development phase to play out before committing to anything, according to service officials.

Iron Dome is an effective, truck-towed mobile air defence system developed by Rafael Advanced Defence Systems.

In response to the rapidly increasing danger from space debris, a new system called the "Space Fence" has been under development and aims to replace the 50-year-old Air Force Space Surveillance System with a system of highly-sensitive phased array S-band tracking radars.

The Boeing F-15E Eagle and F/A-18E Super Hornet are now equipped to train in an environment that puts them at odds against real aircraft and computer-generated enemy threats at the same time.

L-3 WESCAM has announced its eLearning training program, designed for operators and maintainers of MX Series EO/IR imaging turrets, now includes courses on MX-10 and MX-20 turret models.