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The Commonwealth has announced that NIOA has been selected as a preferred respondent in the Department of Defence’s LAND 159/LAND 4108 Lethality Program request for proposal.
The programs, which see small arms and direct fire support weapons replacements, includes:
- Hand-to-hand fighting weapon system
- Grenades
- Personal defence weapons (e.g. pistol)
- Assault rifles
- Shotguns
- Machine guns: Light, medium, heavy
- Short-range DFSW
- Medium-range DFSW
- Long-range DFSW
- Sniper weapons: Medium range, long range, anti-material
- Light weight mortar
- Light weight automatic grenade launcher
- Command detonated munitions
- Remote weapon systems
- Loitering munitions
- Less than lethal capability
- Method of entry capability
"NIOA welcomes the Commonwealth’s announcement that it has been selected as a preferred respondent in the Department of Defence’s LAND 159/LAND 4108 Lethality Program request for proposal," a release from the company said.
"NIOA, a 100 per cent Australian prime contractor, welcomes the opportunity to tender for the managing contractor role to work with our Australian and international industry partners to deliver a lethality enhancement step change for the Australian warfighter."
The programs will also see up to 21 weapon systems that require integration of:
- Soldier combat system
- Battle management system
- Combined arms fighting system vehicles
- Allies and coalition partners
- Training and target systems
- Live firing
- Simulation
- Defence and industry support chain.
*Note: This article has been corrected to reflect additional information and is accurate as of 11:38AM AEST 5/7/2019.
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