Opentopia Directory Encyclopedia Tools

Australian Defence Industries

Encyclopedia : A : AU : AUS : Australian Defence Industries


Australian Defence Industries (ADI) is the primary defence contractor for the Australian Defence Force. It provides most standard equipment for the ADF from the F88 Austeyr (Based on the Steyr AUG) to designs for vessels for the Australian Navy. ADI also produces a variety of smokeless powders for reloading rifle, pistol & shotgun cartridges.

In previous years, ADI was the sole defence contractor in Australia however this has changed with the creation of the Tenix Group company, Tenix Defence.

ADI is based on Garden Island Naval Base in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Though They also Maintain a R&D/Custom production Facility in Brisbane, Australia. In 2004 they applied to the Australian Equal Opportunities Commission to exclude workers of certain nationalities for security reasons. [link]

External links

 


From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.

Search Titles
0123456789
ABCDEFGHIJ
KLMNOPQRST
UVWXYZ?

E-mail this article to:

Personal Message: