Australian Munitions in the Press
Historic year of exports for Australian Munitions
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. This success, achieved in a year…
Australian SME DEMEX wins World Demolition Award honour
Congratulations to our SME construction contractor DEMEX who recently won “Best New Entrant” at the World Demolition Awards. DEMEX was recently engaged by Thales’ Australian Munitions Business to demolish 43 redundant buildings at the Commonwealth owned Mulwala facility for major…
Strategic defence partnership to secure hundreds of Australian jobs
Thales and the Australian Government have signed a decade long contract worth more than AUD 1 billion (of which around AUD 300 million will be booked in 2020) that guarantees the Australian manufacture and supply of strategic munitions to the…
Australian Munitions Awarded the 2019 Manufacturer of the Year
Australian Munitions has been awarded “Manufacturer of the Year” at the 2019 Defence Connect Australian Defence Industry Awards. The event recognises leading professionals and businesses operating in Australia who support the defence supply chain. The award recognises the defence manufacturer…
Australian Munitions takes top honours at US long range competition
Over the past thirty years, Thales and its Australian Munitions business has continued a strong partnership with Hodgdon – the world’s largest propellant distributor, and has exported over nine million kilograms of powder to the US alone.
Australian Munitions awarded the 2019 Environmental Solution of the Year
On Thursday 16th May, Australian Munitions (Thales Australia) was awarded both “Manufacturer of the Year” and the “Environmental Solution of the Year” at the Endeavour Awards during a glittering awards ceremony held at Melbourne’s Arts Centre. As part of National…
R&D placement for Defence Grad
Rhys Centin from the Department of Defence is completing his graduate rotation work placement at Australian Munitions within Mulwala’s Research and Development team. Rhys’ career began as a chemical engineer in 2018 as a Graduate Civilian Engineer within the Department…
APS350 and APS450 Pistol Data is Now Available
Here at Australian Munitions we’ve been working extremely hard on getting the new APS350 and APS450 propellant data finalised. This is a very time consuming process as three sources of data need to be checked for accuracy and completeness. This…