Blog 5

Blog 5

by | May 25, 2022 | Blog

Photo Credit – Alan Flett On the 8th of October 2021, the US Government approved the sale of an additional 13 Sikorsky MH-60R (Romeo) Seahawk multi-role helicopters for use by the Royal Australian Navy. This order, which includes a replacement aircraft to cover the...
Blog 4

Blog 4

by | May 25, 2022 | Blog

Photo Credit – D.K. Coles After A46-311 was written off after an aborted take-off accident at Nellis Air Force Base in the USA on the 27th of January 2018 (thankfully the crew escaped without injury), the Australian Government began investigations into procuring a...
Blog 3

Blog 3

by | May 23, 2022 | Blog

Photo Credit – Department of Defence On 16 May 22, Minister for Defence, Mr Peter Dutton announced that seven additional MQ-28A Ghost Bat UAVs would be financed, adding to the three prototypes already payed for (Two built and one under construction as of May 2022)....
Blog 2

Blog 2

by | May 23, 2022 | Blog

Photo Credit – Department of Defence Project SEA 129 Phase 5, calling for a medium-light weight UAS for operation from naval ships announce on 2 May that the Scheibel S-100 Camcopter had won the bid. Offered by a consortium of Raytheon Australia and Scheibel Pacific,...
Blog 1

Blog 1

by | May 22, 2022 | Blog

Photo Credit – D.K. Coles Having been selected as the winner of Project AIR 7003 in November 2019, the General Atomics MQ-9B Sky Guardian armed UAS has been cancelled. As the news broke on the 1st of April, the first thought of many was that this was an April fool’s...