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Hawkei Vehicle Reaches Initial Operational Capability

 

The next generation of Hawkei Protected Mobility Vehicle – Light has reached a significant milestone with the approval of Initial Operational Capability under the Project Land 121 Phase 4.

This brand new capability for the Australian Defence Force (ADF) will provide a high level of protection for soldiers, with significantly improved mobility enabling it to operate in high threat environments.

Minister for Defence the Hon Peter Dutton MP said the $2 billion project would see the new fleet of 1,100 Australian-built light protected vehicles rolled out to Army and Air Force units.“The Hawkei is expected to reach Full Operational Capability in 2023 and is joining the existing Bushmaster and Protected Medium Heavy Capability trucks to create a suite of protected mobility vehicles,” Minister Dutton said.

“The new fleet of lighter vehicles, which will come with 1,058 trailers, will better protect ADF personnel from blast and ballistic threats.”Minister for Defence Industry the Hon Melissa Price said the Hawkei project is delivering vehicles manufactured in Victoria at the Thales Protected Vehicles facility in Bendigo.

“This project is an excellent example of Australian industry providing Defence capability to meet Australian requirements,” Minister Price said.“Hawkei has been designed and built in Australia by Thales Australia, which supports Australian jobs and Australian service personnel.

“The production of the Hawkei is sustaining approximately 210 jobs in Thales’ workforce in Bendigo, creating about 35 more jobs as part of the support contract, and establishing around 180 additional jobs as part of Thales' supply chain supporting production.“The production and ongoing support of the Hawkei vehicle in Australia creates significant long-term opportunities for Australian industry, including the potential for export,” Minister Price said.

Defence and Thales Australia have resolved a braking issue identified in late 2020, with a technical solution being rolled out across the Hawkei fleet.With appropriate controls in place, Defence has lifted the Hawkei’s operating restrictions, enabling the recommencement of full-rate production and rollout of the capability.

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RAAF have Completed Training to Operate Space Surveillance Telescope (SST)

 Air surveillance operators at No. 1 Remote Sensor Unit (1RSU) based at RAAF Base Edinburgh have completed training to operate the unit’s newest capability, the Royal Australian Air Force space surveillance telescope (SST). The SST will survey the night skies, detecting and cataloguing objects in geosynchronous orbit more than 30,000km above the Earth where many important telecommunications satellites reside. 

Inactive satellites and debris litter this orbital plane and pose a collision risk to active spacecraft. As such, the SST’s detections will help identify such risks and preserve the safe use of space.Located at the Harold E Holt Communication Station in Exmouth, Western Australia, the SST is positioned close to another 1RSU-operated space domain awareness asset, the C-Band radar. 

Both the C-Band and SST are joint initiatives of the United States Space Force (USSF) and Australia.Both capabilities form part of the space surveillance network, which is a worldwide network of telescopes and radars that detect, track, identify and catalogue man-made objects in space.

Leading Aircraftwoman Amy Clements, an ASOP on the inaugural SST course, said the SST was an electro-optical sensor that would provide coverage of objects within deep space, making an important contribution as part of the space surveillance network.“Visiting the site of the telescope in May, I had the incredible opportunity to witness first-hand, along with my fellow aviators, what 1RSU and the wider Air Force are looking to achieve within the space domain,” Leading Aircraftwoman Clements said.

“As an operator, I am really excited to have the opportunity to work with this incredible technology and support this enhanced space capability for Air Force.”With an enormous 3.6m aperture, the SST was initially developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory and is the result of years of construction, testing and development.

The SST is a proven and potent technology, with the United States Air Force previously operating the capability at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, prior to its relocation to Exmouth.Leading Aircraftman Graham Turner, an ASOP at 1RSU and also a member of the first SST course, said the things the SST could see were amazing.

“Operating an optical sensor is quite different to using a radar like C-Band, which I’ve operated previously, and has a lot of advantages, especially in geostationary orbit,” Leading Aircraftman Turner said.

“It’s a different job to what 1RSU has done before in space domain awareness and the SST is especially suited to it.”

Modern military operations are reliant on space-based assets for communications, weather, navigation, timing, intelligence and missile-warning. 

Detecting potential collision risks to these assets through space domain awareness increases their survivability and ensures the effects they provide the warfighter are not lost. 

Commanding Officer 1RSU Wing Commander Richard Harrison said the SST’s observations would contribute to the ADF’s space domain awareness and that of allies.

“The establishment of the SST capability marks an impressive milestone for our unit and more broadly, Air Force’s collaboration with the US and other agencies within the space sector,” Wing Commander Harrison said.

The first RAAF SST operators completed their training on April 23 and are now developing procedures and trialling techniques towards achieving initial operating capability. 

Philippine Army Getting 4 Vehicle Mounted Mine Detectors

 Armtrac, an explosive ordnance disposal company based in Cambridgeshire in Eastern England, has announced that it was awarded contract to supply 4 Vehicle Mounted Mine Detector (VMMD) to the Philippine Army.

“Following an MOU and Special Implementing Arrangement (SIA) signed at Government level, the Bid was awarded on 5 January 2021 and contract signed in April 2021 for 4 x VMMDs for delivery in 2021/22,” Armtrac said.It noted that the VMMD, based on the Armtrac 100-350 Mk2, “provides the capability to accommodate two operators within the armoured cabin to operate a vegetation cutter on the rear robotic arm to clear high vegetation on roadsides and a detector on the front robotic arm to detect the IEDs together with a paint marker to indicate the position.”

“A small excavator bucket, fitted to the rear robotic arm in place of the vegetation cutter, allows some excavation of earth for exposure of buried EO,” it added.

The Royal Thai Army has Converted the H145 Helos into Air Ambulance

 

Army commander Has approved guidelines for the use of aircraft of the Royal Thai Army to support missions to return air medical lines during normal times and in the field by improving and modifying the 4 units of H145 light general-purpose helicopter aircraft that were originally used for general administrative operations to be developed the ability to be an ambulance helicopter.

Lieutenant Colonel Nuchrawee Jamjamrat, Assistant Spokesperson for the Royal Thai Army, said that H145 is a standard aircraft that is suitable to be adapted to Helicopters for emergency medical services search and rescue Due to its small size, mobility and can be equipped with medical accessories such as defibrillator with wireless patient monitoring, ventilator, sputum suction, bag with emergency resuscitation equipment, medication control, intravenous solution and rescue stretcher for patient transport.

Expected to be completed by the end of 2021, the Army will divide into each region to be used to help people for the repatriation of air medical lines.According to the information in the procurement documents released by the Army on its website. This project uses a budget of 53.2 million baht to renovate 4 of the Army's H145 by installing a floor to support medical equipment oxygen tank with stand medical equipment storage cabinet sit-ly and fold-out emergency wheelchairs and medical equipment racks.

On the other side The Royal Thai Army has prepared a plan to supply 10 biosafety detection vehicles and 5 mobile diagnostic laboratory vehicles with necessary medical equipment to the Military Medical Science Research Institute and hospitals under the Royal Thai Army in every region to support the proactive search for infected people in areas where the outbreak is found to public screening forces and personnel at risk groups.