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VOLUME 27 NO 9 | SEPTEMBER 2019
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ON THE COVER: Australian Army soldiers serving with 2RAR, patrols near Stanage Bay, Queensland during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2019.
[US Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Whitney C. Houston]
REGULAR NEWS AND REPORTS
Editorial 4 News Review 6 Innovation Insights 16 Events 58 Books 50 The View from Canberra 61 Defence Industry 62 From the Source 66
NEWS
Mobile battlespace
comms trialled at EX Talisman Sabre 6
MRH-90 helicopters grounded at HMAS Albatross 8
Thales buys insolvent Hawkei engine manufacturer 8
Cobham begins
strategic review 10
Naval Group markets
local torpedo countermeasures
to RAN 10
JP2060 Phase 4
moves ahead 12
Turkey kicked out of
F-35 program 14
Civmec hits mega
facility milestone 14
DEFENCE BUSINESS
Essington Lewis award winners announced 16
Re-imagining delivery
of a 5th Generation ADF 24
LAND FORCES
Behind the Boxer industrialisation plan 37
Supashock opens new facility in Adelaide 45
Enhanced targets and ranges: all systems go 46
Unmanned M113 demo
next month 50
INFRASTRUCTURE
On course – Estate and Infrastructure update 52
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INFRASTRUCTURE
Defence spending on infrastructure has increased substantially since the 2016 White Paper. P52
From the Source
Chief Defence Scientist Professor Tanya Monro
“There is no organisation in Australia, I would argue, with the
scale and focus of DST for R&D.”
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