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Thales Australia, 3ME Technology unveil BladeHAUL uncrewed ground vehicle at Land Forces 2026
Thales Australia and 3ME Technology have unveiled a new BladeHAUL multi-mission extra-large uncrewed ground vehicle at the Land Fo...
Defence confirms Australian Army soldier killed, 5 injured in NT training incident
An Australian Army soldier has died and five others were injured in a Northern Territory training incident, according to a stateme...
Arkeus announces Warden Hyperspectral Optical Radar to enter service with Australian Army
Arkeus has announced its Warden Hyperspectral Optical Radar will enter service with the Australian Army to provide comprehensive w...
Rheinmetall, Breaker to integrate human machine teaming onto Australian Boxer CRV
Rheinmetall and defence technology start-up Breaker have signed a teaming agreement to bring human machine teaming to armoured veh...
Australia should learn the lesson on hydrogen’s defence value from India
Opinion: Australia’s north has long been the epicentre of the nation’s defence readiness.
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Opinion
Once-in-a-century reforms for veterans
In a weeks’ time, Australia’s veteran support landscape will undergo its most significant reform in generations, explains Minister for...
June 24 2026
2 navies, similar problems, different solutions: Canada and Australia’s diverging submarine futures
Opinion: Despite near-identical challenges, Canada’s pursuit of a larger, conventional submarine fleet for speed and affordability provides an interesting contrast compared...
June 23 2026
Australia’s strategic outlook: Export controls will be critical to delivering Australia’s sovereign defence future
Opinion: The 2026 National Defence Strategy makes clear that Australia is entering a far more contested and unpredictable era. Intensifying geopolitical competition, rapid...
June 17 2026
Stop building the Batmobile: Defence weaponry must be designed for factory floors
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey has urged Western governments to focus on deployable defence capability over creating exquisite and expensive individual systems.
June 12 2026
Part 2: The complex challenges of integrated deterrence, China and Taiwan
Opinion: Chinese strategic intentions in relation to the Indo-Pacific are best encapsulated in Xi Jinping’s concept of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
June 06 2026
Artificial intelligence in the defence context: Levels of employment, the DIKW hierarchy and human factors
Opinion: AI is reshaping modern warfare across every level of conflict while reinforcing the need for human judgement and sovereign Australian capability, explains Air...
May 21 2026
Hardware elsewhere: Russia’s sombre Victory Day parade spooked by drone threats
Russia’s imposing array of military hardware and visiting foreign officials were thin on the ground during the country’s recent Victory Day, both groups likely spooked by...
May 18 2026
Defence industry responds to 2026 federal budget
The release of the 2026 federal budget has been dubbed the most “important and ambitious budget in decades”, according to Treasurer Jim Chalmers.
May 14 2026
The Hormuz precedent: Maritime tolls and the future of global shipping
Opinion: Iran has effectively set up a maritime toll booth in the Strait of Hormuz. The United States has threatened to sanction anyone who pays the toll, yet the toll booth...
May 11 2026
Australia’s manufacturing problem is not capability, it’s control
Opinion: Australia’s manufacturing problem is not capability. It is control.
April 30 2026
Honouring sacrifice: Taking ourselves seriously is the least we can do
Anzac Day is widely held as the most sacred day in Australia’s national calendar. A day when the country comes together to commemorate the sacrifice of the nation’s best...
April 28 2026
Behind the hoopla, the government is leaving our military badly underequipped in the drone era
Opinion: The government’s headline $7 billion counter-drone plan is largely smoke and mirrors, spreading funds over a decade into legacy systems while leaving Australia...
April 23 2026
Is Australian soft power losing currency in a rapidly hardening world?
It’s been called the collapse of the global rules-based order.
April 22 2026
Industry expresses mixed views on 2026 National Defence Strategy
The 2026 National Defence Strategy has been welcomed with mixed reviews from industry leaders and defence strategists, with both critiques and praises coming through.
April 20 2026
Stuffed it: Middle East adventures throw economy, allies and stability into disarray
Opinion: By now it is pretty clear that the conflict in the Middle East responsible for constraining at least 20–25 per cent of the world’s oil supply is going from bad...
April 02 2026
Information sharing of cyber threats vital to national security
Opinion: Modern conflict shows cyber operations and rapid intelligence sharing are essential to national resilience, but Australia must overcome legal, cultural and technical...
April 01 2026
AUKUS submarines: US and UK partners show the realities facing Australia’s small fleet
Opinion: Even in a best-case scenario, Australia’s eight nuclear submarines would likely produce only about two consistently deployable boats due to maintenance, workforce...
March 30 2026
From Pine Gap to HMAS Stirling: Australia must reclaim strategic authorship
Opinion: Australia risks remaining legally sovereign while effectively operating within allied military systems unless it asserts greater control over how its territory is...
March 30 2026
Trump the unilateralist becomes Trump the multilateralist – for now
Opinion: Donald Trump’s administration is now urging other countries to secure the Strait of Hormuz, exposing both American strategic misjudgement and Australia’s...
March 17 2026
Pentagon pushes to accelerate weapons procurement as strategic competition intensifies
Opinion: The United States is overhauling defence procurement to deliver military technology faster, expand industry competition and harness commercial innovation, explains...
March 16 2026