The first Australian pilot to fly the Lockheed Martin F-35A Joint Strike Fighter has taken to the skies in the United States.

The Australian Defence Force has begun a new recruiting campaign aimed specifically at attracting more women in a career with the Royal Australian Air Force, Royal Australian Navy or Australian Army.

In the early 1970s, Malaysia’s government decided that developing the nation as an industrial and commercial powerhouse required a defence industry.

Held on the Malaysian resort Island of Langkawi between March 15th and 17th, the 9th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Defence Ministers Meeting (ADMM) has produced a united front against the spread of Islamic State (IS) influence in the region.

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Sweden’s defence purchasing agency has taken its disappointment at the country being excluded from Australia’s Sea 1000 “competitive evaluation” process direct to the Defence Material Organisation, in a letter that refutes both the DMO’s official justification for doing so, and comments made in the media.

The 2015 Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace (LIMA) exposition got under way on Tuesday, with a spectacular opening ceremony which culminated in the arrival on the island of the first Airbus Defence & Space A400M airlifter for the Royal Malaysian Air Force (TUDM).

Australian defence industry has a strong presence at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace (LIMA) exposition, underway on the Malaysian resort island of Lankgawi this week.

Micreo Limited has begun shipping production units to Raytheon’s SAS Division for incorporation into the ALR-69A(V), the world’s first all-digital radar warning receiver (RWR).

By any yardstick, Japan’s defence forces and by association the industries that support them, have been completely transformed since the dark years after WWII.

Tectonica Australia and Honeywell continue to work together to deliver the future of navigation solutions and are looking to Land 400 opportunities.

Hyperdrive Performance are the 2015 F1 in Schools new National Champions. The team of three from Trinity Grammar School Kew in Melbourne took out line honours from an impressively accomplished field of competitors in the Professional Class – with the bar again raised higher in this year’s competition.

Australia’s Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) is putting the finishing touches to what it believes will be Australia’s definitive debate on our Future Submarine next week at the 2015 Sub Summit in Adelaide.

Australia’s Electro Optic Systems (EOS) has won a $6.5 million contract to refurbish and upgrade 45 EOS remote weapons systems used on the Bushmaster protected mobility vehicle.

If you believe everything you read in the media, you would think that Australia’s submarine capability is pretty woeful.

From a nation depending almost entirely on US-supplied equipment during the Korean War, South Korea has developed a national defence industry that now provides around 80 per cent of its own equipment and helped propel the nation in to the list of top 10 global national exporters in 2014.