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By Alasdair Pal. SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will spend an additional A$400 million ($260 million) to manufacture next-generation military drones - one of a number of locally manufactured ...
AEW&C and EW aircraft Boeing E-7A Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning & Control aircraft No. 2 Squadron (RAAF Base Williamtown) 6 [3] Australia Boeing EA-18G Growler Electronic Warfare aircraft No. 6 Squadron (RAAF Base Amberley) 12 [4] United States MC-55A Peregrine Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare (ISREW) aircraft
The Corvo Precision Payload Delivery System (PPDS) is a small aerial drone originally intended for logistics, weighs 2.4 kg (5.3 lb) empty, and deliveries payloads of up to 3 kilograms (6.6 lb). [1] The airframe is made of waxed foamcore (foamboard) and the drone is supplied as a self-assembly flatpack, complete with a tablet-PC control centre ...
Fox News cited an alleged anonymous U.S. official as a source that the drone had been an MQ-4C Triton, but the U.S. Central Command later confirmed it was a BAMS-D, a prototype version of the RQ-4A drone, developed during the development of the MQ-4C. In total, four of these prototype aircraft were built, and they had been assigned to the Navy ...
Chicago-based aerospace giant Boeing has announced plans to build a new type of drone military aircraft in Australia. Boeing said Wednesday it has selected Toowoomba city in Queensland state as ...
Australia will spend A$1.5 billion ($966 million) to boost maritime surveillance of its northern approaches, buying more long range drone aircraft and upgrading Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.
Remotely-controlled high-performance target drone: 1998–2008: 21 aircraft N11 GAF Jindivik: Jindivik Mk 203A Jindivik Mk 203B: Australia: Remotely-controlled high-performance target drone: 1966–2000: 42 aircraft GAF Turana: Turana: Australia: target drone: 1971–1979: 23 aircraft N10 Northrop KD2R Shelduck: KD2R-5 Shelduck: United States ...
In April 2021, the State Department approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Australia of 12 MQ-9B Reapers and related equipment for an estimated cost of $1.651 billion (~$1.83 billion in 2023). [258] The Australian Government cancelled the planned Reaper acquisition in March 2022.