BAE Systems Hunter frigate construction – latest video – Celebrating Australian Made

Helping launch our second Celebrating Australian Made editorial series, today we get another look into Australia’s biggest manufacturing project underway at the Osborne naval shipyard in Adelaide. Here we show the latest video of prototype production underway for the Hunter class frigate build. There is no bigger manufacturing project underway in Australia than BAE Systems…

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XTEK books “transformational” $46.8 million order for ballistic armour products

XTEK’s US-based subsidiary HighCom Armor Solutions has received yet another order from an undisclosed customer, this time valued at $US 33.2 million ($46.8 million.) In a statement to the ASX on Friday morning, the defence company said the contract’s value had been prepaid in full, and covers “tens of thousands of individual advanced ballistic protection…

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Risk of food cyber “side attacks” examined in new research Wide-ranging use of smart technologies is raising global agricultural productivity but also increasing the risk of cybersecurity attacks, according to international researchers in a new article in the open access journal Sensors (linked.) Complex IT and math modelling at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia,…