Townsville is emerging as Australia's new Army capital with hundreds of soldiers to be relocated over coming years, while Adelaide becomes the home of advanced land-based, long-range strike technology.
From 2025 all of Army's heavy armour and half of its helicopters will be hosted in Townsville.abc.net.au/news/townsville-biggest-winner-of-defence-forces-shake-up/102909694The Garrison city of Townsville is emerging as Australia's new Army capital with hundreds of soldiers to be relocated to north Queensland over coming years, while Adelaide becomes the home of advanced land-based, long-range strike capabilities.
The Queensland city's 3rd Brigade will be re-formed as the Army's only heavy combat formation with up to 500 personnel added to its ranks.The 3rd Brigade, based in Townsville, will be an armoured combat brigadeThe 10th Brigade, based in Adelaide, will be raised as a fires brigade. The 1st Armoured Regiment will be "re-roled" as an innovation and experimentation unit to deliver and integrate these emerging technologies but will remain at its current location in the South Australian capital, close to the Cultana and Woomera training ranges, and the ADF's space sector partners which provide targeting data.
Eventually all of Army's tanks, Boxer Combat Reconnaissance Vehicles, Redback Infantry Fighting Vehicles, and Huntsman self-propelled howitzers will be based in Townsville along with the Apache and Chinook helicopter fleets.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
More tanks in Townsville: shake-up to move troops northThe Australian army will be restructured for maritime operations.
Read more »
Defence Force facing ‘real difficulty’ in recruitment and retentionThe Australian Defence Force is facing “real difficulty” with recruitment and retention, according to USSC Foreign Policy and Defence Director Professor Peter Dean. His comments come as the Defence department becomes increasingly reliant on outsourced contractors. “Under the previous Coalition governments, we basically had a cap on the number of public servants that could go into the Defence department,” Professor Dean told Sky News Australia. “At the very same time, the Defence spending was increasing in the number of major projects that Defence were required to deliver on – so we had a lot of money to deliver on those projects but not enough workforce. “So one of the ways of solving those issues was to go with contractors, and this was pretty much encouraged by the previous Coalition government in terms of its approach to fulfilling those needs in the public sector.”
Read more »
Lithium Power International lines up defence as Codelco circlesAs previously reported by Street Talk, the ASX-listed lithium hopeful faced a potential roadblock posed by Chile’s new policy, which is exceedingly complicated.
Read more »
Defence Department increases workforce to combat outsourced contractor reliabilityThe Defence Department is becoming increasingly reliant on a growing workforce of outsourced contractors. The contractor workforce has risen to a record 37,000, according to data obtained under Freedom of Information laws. This figure is 18 per cent larger than those enrolled in the Australian Army. The Department is committed to reducing the size of its contracted workforce. Plans are underway to bring in 2,000 external roles in-house by next year and increase the size of its permanent workforce by over 18,000 people by 2040.
Read more »
‘Hard decisions’: Hundreds of troops sent north in Australian Army overhaulAlmost 1000 defence force roles will be shifted from southern to northern Australia in the biggest restructure of the army in over a decade.
Read more »