Superior Armor
Australian analysts have said that Hanwha Aerospace’s Redback is a strong candidate to win an Australian armored vehicle project that costs about 23 trillion won (US$17.73 billion).
Australian military authorities evaluated that the Australian-type armored vehicle Redback of Hanwha Aerospace was ahead of Germany-based Rheinmetall Defense’s Lynx in the third phase of the Land 400 Project in Australia, foreign media outlets said on March 5. LAND 400 is the biggest and most expensive acquisition project in the history of the Australian Army. “We recently received feedback from the Australian Army that the Redback was superior to the German Lynx,” a Hanwha Aerospace official said.
Australia has decided to invest 270 billion Australian dollars in defense over 10 years and is moving forward with the Australian Army’s Armored Vehicle Land 400 Project.
The winner of the armored vehicle project was originally expected to come out in 2022. But the project was delayed. Now, more recently, it has been accelerating. In fact, the Australian government is expected to announce the winner of the project earlier with the submission of an Australian defense strategy review report to the Australian government on Feb. 14.