With the wars in Ukraine and Gaza straining U.S. arsenals, Washington is seeking to expand production with global partners like Australia.
www.nytimes.com
US defense industries investments in Australia, this article focus on Lockheed Martin Australia that would make their GMLRS or
gimmlers for HIMARS in Australia.
This rockets would be made in Mulwala and/or Benalla, places where ADF ammunitions came from. Sitting on
1 government owned land, this facilities operates by Thales Australia, kind of like US’s GOCO (Government-Owned, Company/Contractor-Operated) facilities, for example AF Plant 4 for F-35 and Skunk Works’s Plant 42.
Australian Government approach or push for these LM expansion are “crawl, walk, run”. First, the LM produce something less complicated, for this case 155mm. Second, assembling GMLRS. Third, making GMLRS with local contents.
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