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VOLUME 28 NO 6 | JULY/AUGUST 2020
FOCUS ON
DEFENCE BUSINESS
New SME group wins innovation grants. P18
DEFENCE BUSINESS
Is Australia finally ready for its own space launch facility? P52
REGULAR NEWS AND REPORTS
Editorial 4 News Review 6 SMEs in focus 16 Events 50 Books 51 The View from Canberra 52 From the Source 58
Navantia recognised
as design authority
on four ship classes 14
DEFENCE BUSINESS
Horizon companies
win innovation grants 18
SURVEILLANCE IN
THE LAND DOMAIN NEWS Land 129 phase 3 bids
ON THE COVER: An AIM-9 Sidewinder heat seeking missile loaded on the wing tip of a F/A-18F Super Hornet. What comes next?
FROM THE
SOURCE
Gabby Costigan BAE Systems Australia Managing Director
“HERE IN AUSTRALIA, HUNTER IS STILL IN THE EARLY DESIGN AND MOBILISATION PHASE BUT WE ARE, I THINK, RIGHT WHERE WE EXPECTED TO BE.”
Boeing present first
Loyal Wingman 6
Defence provides update
on Hornet disposal plans 8
First local production lot of F-35 ammunition complete 8
Babcock and Bell team
for Land 2097 Special
Forces helicopters 10
NZ confirms C-130J
selection and NH90 maintenance 12
Axiom making face shields 12
QinetiQ Australia to
design and construct
UAS test range in Qld 4
in the box 20
Passive radar – from
concept to reality with
local SMEs 30
SIMULATION
The new Officer
Aviation pathway
explained 34
Boeing sim lab for
defence and civil uses 40
WEAPONS
Next generation
air-launched weapons 42
DEFENCE