The South Australian government has announced that a large parcel of land will be rezoned to support the state’s defence manufacturing capabilities.
The aircraft will be joined by a damaged Australian Army Bushmaster protected mobility vehicle (previously gifted to Ukraine) and a C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft in Anzac Hall as part of a $500 million redevelopment for the national museum.
Anduril’s Fury was displayed for the first time at Avalon and, unlike its local rival, is designed to work with a commercially available engine as well as Anduril’s autonomous software.
Announced on 2 April, 1975, the first two RAAF C-130 Hercules flights left Saigon on 4 April, bringing 194 children to Bangkok, where they were put on a specially-chartered Qantas Boeing 747 to Australia. Two more flights followed on 17 April.
Defence has selected Northrop Grumman to install the AN/ALQ-251 system that can offer radar warning and precision direction-finding of radio frequency threats.
Captain Danniel Lyon, Lieutenant Maxwell Nugent, Warrant Officer Class 2 Joseph ‘Phillip’ Laycock and Corporal Alexander Naggs lost their lives during the accident, which occurred on 28 July 2023 during Exercise Talisman Sabre.