About a thousand years ago I spent a couple of days in Timor with an ASLAV set up like this. The boys showed me how the MSTAR radar worked (ours was man portable), but it was the cameras that were the real stars of the show, day and night, brilliant.
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It’s the year 2123, and an ADF battlegroup is conducting combat operations off-planet against the alien predator hybrid insurgents threatening freedom on the natural resource rich planetoid Bogan Three deep in the Wop Wop Sector of the Billabong Galaxy.

The ADF battlegroup is equipped with state of the art plasma rifles in the 20 watt range, Ned Kelly Mark V exoskeletons, the latest sensor defeat technology, and the Browning Hi-Power remains the standard service pistol.

“The Browning 9mm pistol will remain in service until a replacement is considered under the Space 2125 ADF Small Arms Replacement Project,” a Defence AI spokesperson said. “The Project is currently due for Government consideration in 2124, but it may slip to 2199 due to conflicting funding priorities and the growing Borg threat detected in the Accadacca System.”

:)
 
March 2023. A soldier from 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), firing the Mk 47 40mm Automatic Grenade Launcher.
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“The Browning 9mm pistol will remain in service until a replacement is considered under the Space 2125 ADF Small Arms Replacement Project,” a Defence AI spokesperson said. “The Project is currently due for Government consideration in 2124, but it may slip to 2199 due to conflicting funding priorities and the growing Borg threat detected in the Accadacca System.”

:)

Mounted in the mkVI M113, as we're still testing the 8th versions of the IFV replacement program, due to rapid technological advancements and potential future theatre of operations causing issues with previous iterations of replacements...
 
51st Battalion, Far North Queensland Regiment serves as a Regional Force Surveillance Unit responsible for reconnaissance and surveillance tasks in remote regions of FNQ—from Cardwell to the Torres Strait, Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf across to the NT border
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A major portion, approximately 30 per cent, of the Battalion’s members are Indigenous Australians, many from isolated Indigenous communities throughout Cape York and the Gulf Country as well as the Torres Straits.
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Mirage III/C with an RPK-10 tank AND bomb carrier developed especially for Dassault Mirage III. Each tank could carry up to 4 bombs along with 500 litres of fuel. Vintage efficiency
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1st Armoured Regiment M1A1 (AIM) Abrams tank fires a 120mm round from its main gun in a Support By Fire serial during the Warfighter activity at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, QLD. 2019
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Battle Group Lion’s M1A1 Abrams tanks en route to conduct a live-fire Warfighter activity at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, QLD.
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Sapper Cameron Bennett from 1st Combat Engineer Regiment takes a knee during a patrol prior to clearing an objective during the Warfighter activity at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, QLD.
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7th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment soldiers dismount to conduct an assault during Battle Group Lion’s live-fire Warfighter activity at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, QLD.
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The 5th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment on patrol during the combined Battle Group Lion Warfighter activity at Shoalwater Bay Training Area, QLD.
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A CH-47 Chinook from the 5th Aviation Regiment conducts a refuel for the 2nd Cavalry Regiment’s M1 Abrams main battle tank at Townsville Field Training Area
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"Fat cow" mission running a FARP. Forward Arial Refuel Point. There are three 800 gallon cubes in the 47 with a big pump running the whole set up. One main line runs out the back and then it tees off to multiple refuel lines.
 
Northern Territory. 22 August 1989. Australian soldiers acting as aggressors monitor their radios at a command post during the joint Australian/U.S. Exercise Kangaroo '89
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April 2023. Trooper Courage, the Wedge-tailed eagle mascot of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment (2 CAV), Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC), out for a ride on an Abrams M1A1 AIM tank at Lavarack Barracks, Townsville, Queensland
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Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment's Direct Fire Support Weapons Platoon, fire a Mk47 Automatic Grenade Launcher during a live fire training serial at the Townsville Field Training Area in Queensland
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M113A1 Medium Reconnaissance Vehicle. In the late 1970,s the Australian army put Scorpion light tank turrets with a 76 mm gun in M113 APCs.
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M113A1 Medium Reconnaissance Vehicle, mid 1980’s
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Bindoon Training Area, Western Australia (@BravoZulu 's operating area ;) - it's a joke of course, an area hard to imagine for a resident of Europe. ;] ).

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10th Light Horse Regiment conducted a live-fire exercise to achieve synchronisation of high explosive weapons and heavy machine gun fire during Exercise Waler’s Walk.
The ambush by night incorporated illumination natures that assisted the Cavalry Troop, mounted in Hawkei to prosecute the targets.
 
Bindoon Training Area, Western Australia (@BravoZulu 's operating area ;) - it's a joke of course, an area hard to imagine for a resident of Europe. ;] ).

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10th Light Horse Regiment conducted a live-fire exercise to achieve synchronisation of high explosive weapons and heavy machine gun fire during Exercise Waler’s Walk.
The ambush by night incorporated illumination natures that assisted the Cavalry Troop, mounted in Hawkei to prosecute the targets.
About 1.5hrs from my place 👍
 
As part of Mission Jeanne d’Arc, the French ship Dixmude, a 21,000-tonne Mistral-class LHD, sailed from Toulon to the Port of Townsville. During the visit, about 120 embarked French Army soldiers conducted training activities led by 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment at Lavarack Barracks.


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The training involved 10 teams with a mix of Australian and French soldiers working together to complete a 3km battle run and obstacle course, a team shooting activity with non-lethal projectiles, and a tactical combat casualty care scenario.
 

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