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The Advertiser
March 24, 2018
More than 70 years later, a dogged piece of detective work by Tasmanian historian Scott Seymour has narrowed down the possible murder site — and a preliminary on-site investigation has already been undertaken by the Unrecovered War Casualties (Army) unit of the Australian Army Defence Force,Ãâà...
DefenseNews.com
March 14, 2018
... Wednesday that Rheinmetall Defence Australia has been selected to supply its Boxer Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle to the Australian Army. A total of 211 vehicles will be acquired under the Australian Defence Force's Project Land 400 Phase 2, valued at an estimated AU$5 billion (U.S. $3.3 billion).
9news.com.au
March 14, 2018
"Australian Army engineers will be searching official venues, the Games village, and vehicles at designated checkpoints," he said on Wednesday. "Navy clearance divers will be conducting sub-surface searches of key locations on the Gold Coast waterways." Queensland Police Commonwealth GamesÃâà...
The Advocate
March 14, 2018
IN ANNOUNCING the Australian Army's next armoured vehicle on Wednesday, the government focused heavily on the jobs it would create. It's become a political strategy of the Turnbull government – to promote the involvement of Australian industry in major defence projects. In this case, Land 400 Phase 2Ãâà...
Xinhua
March 14, 2018
CANBERRA, March 14 (Xinhua) -- German contractor Rheinmetall has won the 5.2-billion-Australian-dollar (4.08 billion U.S. dollars) contract to build 211 light armored vehicles for the Australian Army. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said it was the single-largest acquisition in the Australian Army's historyÃâà...
The New Daily
March 14, 2018
“This is the largest single acquisition made for the Australian Army, and it is part of our $200 billion re-equipment of the Australian Defence Force to ensure that the men and women that we send into harm's way have the capabilities to keep us safe in the 21st century,” Mr Turnbull said. This is aboutÃâà...
ABC Online
March 14, 2018
Announcing the contract at the Enoggera Army Barracks in Brisbane this morning, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said it was the single-largest acquisition made for the Australian Army. "As one of the troopers said to me just a moment ago, this is about lethality and survivability. This is about capability andÃâà...
NEWS.com.au
March 14, 2018
Australia's top political military figures have announced the largest purchase in the history of the Australian Army which Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said was based on “lethality and survivability”. The Turnbull Government plans to use the new Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle (CRV), known as “TheÃâà...
The Advertiser
March 4, 2018
Those female soldiers, wearing the Australian Army uniform alongside their male counterparts, deserve our support. Women are not the same as men and men are not the same as each other. There will be both men and women not suited to frontline roles and the army can work that out without the help ofÃâà...
Manila Bulletin
March 3, 2018
The Australian Army has trained 257 Filipino soldiers on urban combat operation as part of the move to strengthen the local military's operational capability against terrorists in cities and highly populated areas following the Marawi City siege last year. ALL FOR ONE — Filipino and Australian soldiersÃâà...
The Singleton Argus
March 2, 2018
It was the Australian Army's official birthday on Thursday, March 1 and like any birthday a large cake was baked to mark the occasion but because it was the army a sword rather than a kitchen knife was used to make the first cut. Singleton School of Infantry's commandant Lieutenant Colonel MatthewÃâà...
The Australian
March 1, 2018
BAE Systems Australia and Rheinmetall Defence Australia are locked in a fierce competition to supply the Australian Army with 225 wheeled armoured combat vehicles under Phase 2 of Land 400 and, according to Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne previously, an announcement was due inÃâà...
Task & Purpose
February 23, 2018
The last time I saw Major General Day, I was an 18-year-old first-year cadet at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra. He was the Commandant. It was November 1987. And I was standing in front of his desk. Being kicked out of the Academy. And I owe him big time because it was a turningÃâà...
SecurityBrief Australia
February 19, 2018
A Canberra-based cybersecurity firm will work with the Australian Army as part of a $1.3 million contract to improve the army's wireless device security. Penten develops a technology known as AltoCrypt Stik, which allows secure access to classified information over WiFi. According to Penten CEO MatthewÃâà...
The West Australian
February 19, 2018
WA Liberals will call for an inquiry into the small number of Australian Army personnel based in WA, suggesting the Turnbull Government should adopt a “two-armies” policy, with echoes of a World War II defence strategy. The push comes at a time of rising regional tensions, with indications that China isÃâà...
EMTV Online
February 14, 2018
The Communication arm of the PNG Defence Force is predicting improvements, in the sending and receiving of military intelligence. Under the Defence Cooperation Program, the Australian Defence Force today gave over 50 Very High Frequency Handheld radios and Very High Frequency RepeaterÃâà...
The West Australian
February 13, 2018
The head of Australia's army has called on scientists and the local defence industry to help build a drone army to keep Australia safe. Speaking at a defence conference in Canberra today, Chief of Army Lieutenant General Angus Campbell said Australia's relatively small army must be padded out withÃâà...
i-HLS
December 31, 1999
The wheeled armored combat machines will replace the Australian Army's aging Light Armoured Vehicle fleet. The Boxer CRV is designed to undertake both a range of missions in urban, jungle and amphibious areas, according to defenseworld.net. They can withstand direct bomb attacks and heavyÃâà...
Jordan Times
December 31, 1999
Earlier in the day, King Abdullah received Chief of the Australian Army Lt. Gen. Angus John Campbell and reviewed military and defence cooperation between the two countries. The meeting, attended by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Freihat, also covered efforts exerted in the warÃâà...
Second Line of Defense
December 31, 1999
Project LAND 400 Phase 2 will acquire 225 Combat Reconnaissance Vehicles (CRV) to replace the Australian Light Armoured Vehicle (ASLAV). The Phase 2 fleet will include seven variants. On 28 July 2016, Defence announced that BAE Systems Australia and Rheinmetall had been shortlisted toÃâà...
The West Australian
December 31, 1999
The number of full-time Australian Army personnel based in WA has fallen by 15 per cent over the past two decades, as the total army headcount nationally grew by 20 per cent in the same period, research reveals. The data comes as WA Liberals push for an inquiry into the dwindling army presence in theÃâà...
