Land Combat and Amphibious Warfare
4.50 Achieving Australia’s Strategic Defence Objectives requires land forces
that have the mobility, firepower, protection and situational awareness
to deploy quickly to where they are needed, achieve their missions
and return home safely. The Government will make significant new
investments in our land forces, including new combat vehicles,
long-range fire support, amphibious capabilities and Special Forces.
Land Forces
4.51 The soldier is at the heart of land force capability. The last decade
of operations has seen substantial investment in equipping soldiers
with leading-edge equipment to help them to achieve their missions.
The Government will invest in a program for continuously improving
the personal equipment soldiers use, including their weapons and
targeting equipment, digital communications systems, body armour
and self protection equipment (including for chemical, biological and
radiological threats), and night fighting equipment.
4.52 Soldiers in the future Army will be supported by new vehicles and
manned and unmanned aircraft with increased firepower, protection,
mobility, situational awareness and logistics support. The Government
will replace the Army’s current ageing fleet of mobility and
reconnaissance vehicles with a new generation of armoured combat
reconnaissance and infantry fighting vehicles, as well as tank upgrades
and new combat engineering equipment. New general purpose and
Protected Mobility Vehicles will be acquired, including 1,100 Australian
designed and manufactured Hawkei vehicles. The Hawkei’s innovative
design will provide improved protection for soldiers and the vehicle can
be transported by helicopter and will include advanced communications
systems. A replacement for the Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle
will be introduced from around 2025.
4.53 The Government will enhance Army’s firepower with a new long-range
rocket system in the mid-2020s to complement Army’s existing artillery
capability. The new system will be capable of providing fire support to
defeat threats to our personnel at ranges of up to 300 kilometres.
4.54 A riverine patrol capability will be re-established from around 2022,
based on a fleet of lightly armed small patrol boats to allow mobility in a
wide range of riverine environments.
4.55 The Government will introduce enhanced intelligence, surveillance
and reconnaissance capabilities, including armed medium-altitude
unmanned aircraft in the early 2020s, with regular capability upgrades to
follow. The new armed medium-altitude unmanned aircraft will provide
enhanced firepower and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
support to a range of missions including counter-terrorism missions
overseas, while augmenting our surveillance capability for search and
rescue, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief and other tasks.
4.56 The Government will replace the 22 Tiger Armed Reconnaissance
helicopters with a new armed reconnaissance capability from the
mid-2020s.

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