Australia Plots Path To Creating Sovereign Munitions Industry

JDAM-ER wing kit

Australia invented the wing kit for the JDAM-ER, which has been sent to Ukraine.

Credit: Cpl. Craig Barrett/Australian Defense Department
An ambitious plan for raising a domestic munitions industry in Australia must start somewhere, and it might be a prop on the Avalon Airshow booth of a Queensland-based company named Ferra Group. The prop is a full-scale model of the Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range, which triples the...

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