Australian Munitions in the Press
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…
Australian Munitions marks 75 years of support for the ADF
A significant milestone for one of the Australian Defence Force’s key sovereign industrial capabilities was marked on 2 November 2018 with the celebration of 75 years of munitions production at Mulwala in southern New South Wales. Further investment in research…
Hodgdon and Australian Munitions celebrate 30 years as partners
American firm Hodgdon was started by Bruce Hodgdon roughly 70 years ago. A keen reloader, at the end of WWII he’d heard the US military was literally burning off surplus smokeless propellant just to be rid of it. Following up…
New contract for Benalla facility boosts regional job growth and export opportunities to the US
Minister for Defence Christopher Pyne took to the Thales Australia stand at Land Forces this week to announce the MoU for the Australian Munitions Benalla facility to produce new products for the US market, including high tech bombs for the…
Thales and Chemring enhancing Australia’s Sovereign Industrial Capability in Munitions
Thales and Chemring have signed an MoU for strategic cooperation in the design, development and manufacture of a future Family of Grenades capability. The Family of Grenade integrated product range will include fragmentation, offensive, smoke and training products as well…
Thanks for visiting Sydney’s 2018 SSAA Shot Expo
The team at Australian Munitions would like to say thank you to all the customers and supporters who visited the stand at the 2018 SSAA Shot Expo in Sydney last month.
Long Term Propellant Supply Confirmed
The Australian Defence Force has confirmed their decision for Thales Australia (as Australian Munitions) to continue munitions manufacture for long term ADI Propellant supply. This announcement provides hundreds of highly skilled regional Australian workers in Benalla and Mulwala guaranteed job…