Brisbane manufacturer EM Solutions received a second order to supply its Ka-band transceivers for incorporation into defence supplier L3Harris Technologies’ Panther II Very Small Aperture Satellite Terminals (VSAT). EM Solutions, a subsidiary of defence, communications and space manufacturer Electro Optic Systems will deliver over 100 Ka-band transceivers to L3Harris across the first half of 2021…
Defence, space and communications manufacturer Electro Optic Systems has celebrated the production of its first R400 remote weapon station (RWS) (pictured) at its facility at Huntsville, Alabama. EOS Defense Systems USA unveiled a R400S-Mk2-D-HD mounted on the Polaris DAGOR and produced at Huntsville, which has been operating since 2018, before a live and virtual VIP…
The team developing the Warfighter UGV (unmanned ground vehicle) has passed another milestone, demonstrating “the lightest combat UGV able to achieve effective fire from a 50cal at 1km range.”
The US subsidiary of defence manufacturer Electro Optic Systems is delivering one of its R400S Mk2D Remote Weapons Stations (pictured) to the US Army which will assess its capabilities. The system, fitted to armoured vehicles in the armies of a number of countries as well as Australia’s Bushmaster, will be delivered to the army Combat…
Covid-19 treatment tests begin for Noxopharm’s Veyonda Drug developer Noxopharm’s Veyonda drug has been tested as a treatment for Covid-19 on its first human patients. The Phase 1 clinical trials of Veyonda, an experimental anti-cancer formulation of the drug idronoxi, is being conducted in a number of hospitals in Eastern Europe. This came after research…
Canberra’s Electro Optic Systems (EOS) has been awarded a $94 million contract to supply 251 Remote Weapon Stations to equip the army’s Bushmaster and Hawkei armoured vehicles. Delivery, which will run from December this year for a year, is part of a weapons standardisation project and will provide increased lethality to the army’s protected mobility…
Space, communications and defence manufacturer Electro Optic Systems experienced a horror last Covid-19 seven days to the second half of 2020. The Canberra company reported major disruptions to its supply chain in the last week of June interrupted product delivery and delayed revenues until later this year. The half year result was a loss after…
Cyborg Dynamics Engineering and BIA5 Pty Ltd have unveiled a truly Australian developed and produced Unmannned Ground Vehicle (UGV) (pictured). The pair, the recipients of the Centre for Defence Industry Capability priority grant have just completed 12 months of detailed design and development. Cyborg took to social media to announce: “This is TRUE sovereign capability…
NSW-based, GME is the latest defence SME to join the seventeen Australian companies in the C4 EDGE (Evolutionary Digital Ground Environment) Communications Programme revealed on Friday. Headquartered in Winston Hills, GME designs and manufactures RF communication systems, including encrypted radios and emergency beacons which will be a key feature of the programme developing a sovereign…
Seventeen Australian companies have joined the C4 EDGE (Evolutionary Digital Ground Environment) Communications Programme which will develop a sovereign land communications environment for the Australian Army. Initially the group will develop and demonstrate by the end of 2021 a new communications system to be used at the level of the battlegroup and below. The C4…
