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Following Thales Australia’s recent US Department of Defense qualification of its Australian-made TNT to military specifications, Thales is on schedule to commence production of the 155mm M795 Artillery Projectile capability in early 2022. ...

In an effort to get ahead of the curve and rapidly accelerate Australia’s sovereign guided weapons manufacturing capability, Thales Australia has announced a AUD$6 million investment in new plant at the Commonwealth-owned Mulwala propellant and explosives facility in r...

Thales Australia has announced a $6million investment in state-of-the-art advanced manufacturing equipment at the Commonwealth owned Mulwala facility in regional New South Wales [1], to rapidly accelerate sovereign guided weapons manufacturing capability. ...

Thales Australia welcomes the announcement by Defence Industry Minister Melissa Price to award a $20m contract to maintain the Royal Australian Navy’s MU90 Light Weight torpedo

The US Department of Defense has certified Australian-made TNT to military specifications, paving the way for Australian TNT to be exported to the US from the Commonwealth-owned and Thales-operated plant in Mulwala, NSW.

Australia has 70 years of demonstrated achievement in world class collaborative work by scientists, industry (including local SMEs), and Academia in developing and manufacturing a tried and tested guided weapons capability.

The Australian Government’s objective of expanding the sovereign guided weapons capability took off today after Thales Australia conducted a safe test firing of a sovereign rocket motor.

In 2020, Thales’s Australian Munitions business recorded its largest year of munitions export orders to date, signing more than $30 million in munitions orders to the United States, New Zealand, Canada, Asia and Europe.

Thales Australia welcomes the announcement by the Prime Minister today of an acceleration in Australia’s development of sovereign guided weapons manufacturing capability.