Serious risks are being realised in the Royal Australian Navy’s twin transitions in its surface combatant and submarine fleets. As Australia’s strategic circumstances become more dangerous, Defence needs to adopt hedging measures to actively address the capability risks in its acquisition plans.

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In a historic first, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), a world-class aerospace and defense company, will exhibit at the prestigious Dubai Airshow, taking place November 14-18 (visit IAI at Booth 300). IAI will showcase a variety of its state-of-the-art systems, emphasizing its aviation products, in…

Leonardo’s Full Ice Protection System (FIPS) has proved itself an outstanding enabler of all-weather helicopter flying, having undertaken more than 20,000 flight hours during the past five years. Thomas Grant, AW149 UK Marketing Lead, explains how the system works and how it will further enhance the…

Americans watched in horror as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in a matter of days, despite the lives and treasure spent there over twenty years. Most of the criticism of the disastrous end to the Afghanistan War and the rest of the post-9/11 wars has focused on the four presidents who helmed them. …

A call for tenders has been issued for a capability life-cycle manager (CLCM) to maintain Navy’s Hobart-class destroyers.

The Hobart-class destroyers will be the first major class of ship to be sustained through a CLCM arrangement, which has been timed to support the Hobart-class destroyer upgrad…

On October 21, the Armed Forces flew home a Helicopter 14 from Finland. This after FMV and the Swedish Armed Forces carried out a delivery check, after the helicopter was modified to meet the requirements in the basic contract.

“Now it will return as a fully operational helicopter,” says Stefan T…