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From Australian ABC news service: The way Australia buys weapons and defence gear is getting a major overhaul, with former Rio Tinto chief Kellie Parker hired to run the country's new Defence Delivery Agency. Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles and Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy will announce today that Parker will become the new National Armaments Director — effectively making her Australia's chief weapons buyer. For decades, defence procurement has been bogged down by massive budget blowouts and severe delays. To fix this, the Albanese government is transforming its purchasing division into an independent agency — known as the Defence Delivery Agency — starting July 2027. By hiring a veteran mining executive accustomed to delivering complex, multi-billion-dollar infrastructure under strict commercial pressures, the government is hoping to inject real-world business discipline into the ADF. Parker takes on the role in November 2026 before the agency goes fully live in July 2027.
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From the Australian ABC news service https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-19/ghost-shark-fleet-aerial-drones-sea-mines-defence/107283746?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link
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'It's an absolute Ferrari to fly on': ADF retires attack...After more than two decades in the air, the Australian Defence Force's $1.1 billion fleet of attack helicopters, known as the Tigers, will be retired this month. "It's unknown yet where the Tigers will be retired to, although last year the Albanese government considered offloading them to Kyiv to aid in Ukraine's war efforts"
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"AUKUS has forced the United States to confront its "profoundly lacking" capacity to build and maintain naval submarines, but recent progress should inspire confidence in the defence deal, a former top White House official says." AUKUS felt 'too hard' at times, former White House offici...Five years after the pact between Australia, the US, and the UK was announced, three of its key architects assess its progress toward its goals, including arming Australia with nuclear-powered submari
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Not totally new info but interesting in combination. https://www.edrmagazine.eu/pas-2025-schiebel-presented-updated-specifications-of-the-camcopter-s-300-uav https://lockheedmartinau.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=2429&item=122701
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And both the email and board notifications came thru that you'd replied. (The reason for doing the post to test email notifications).
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The 20 countries taking part in this year's exercises include New Zealand, the United States, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, the Republic of Korea, India, Singapore, Germany, France, Spain, Fiji, Canada, Brunei, Malaysia, Finland and Sweden Aust abc news
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Hi Steve Is this playing harpoon 3\ANW or harpoon classic? I see its filed in the harpoon 3\anw section but to me the db id looks more of a hc db (hcdb2 170909). I'm not familiar at all with anw but the error messages remind me of ones I've seen when (badly) amending db files in hc.
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This photo is our back garden taken through the back door window.
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The old kangaroos often make our place a retirement home.
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From australian abc news service https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-22/australia-canada-sign-billion-dollar-over-horizon-radar-deal/106827724?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
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Electronic warfare? 🐹
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I use win 10 and last night (or night before) used scen editor with no problem. I can get to computer tonight and test. (I'm currently using tablet). Don
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-01/us-navy-interest-in-nt-darwin-ship-lift/106736536?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
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