iRobot has received a $US9.8 million order from the US Marine Corps Systems Command for 75 SUGV robot systems.

Lockheed and the USMDA's Aegis Combat System took part in a successful four-event test of the combat system’s air warfare and ballistic missile defence capabilities

Rheinmetall has won a contract to procure a new generation of combat vehicles for the UK’s Armed Forces.

Global technology company Lockheed Martin has appointed a new vice president & managing director to lead its technology business in Australia and Asia.

The next round of SADI (Skilling Australia’s Defence Industry) is open for nominations, worth $5 million this time round.

Insitu president and CEO Ryan Hartman confirmed to Australian media this week that Insitu will be supporting a Navy trial of ScanEagle.

The option of using the Navantia-designed hull of the Hobart class Air Warfare Destroyers (AWDs) as the basis for the proposed Future Frigate that will replace the RAN’s Anzac class fleet has been quietly dropped, according to informed sources.

Boeing Defence Australia has accepted the first of 15 Airbus Helicopters H135 training helicopters to be procured under JP9000 Phase 7 for the joint Army/Navy Helicopter Aircrew Training System (HATS).

German sub maker TKMS has reiterated its intention to build submarines in Australia should it be selected as the preferred partner on Sea 1000.

The Canadian government has awarded Rheinmetall two major orders for army technology, whose total volume could reach $520 million.

Airbus Defence and Space has announced that the planned 67,000 km move of the Skynet 5A satellite over the Asia Pacific region is on track.

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The latest surprise is a tender which came out last week for the scrapping of a number of M113s.

Lockheed Martin’s acquisition of Sikorsky Helicopters this week for $US9 billion is a melding of two of the greatest names in aerospace history.

Last week the conservative Japanese government of Shinzo Abe moved to pass legislation that would allow Japan’s military to fight overseas for the first time since the end of WWII.

Ninox Robotics is trialling a sensor-equipped unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to combat feral and pest animals at night on agricultural properties.