The Australian Defence Forces recently submitted an official letter of request for a foreign military sale of at least 1,000 units of the U.S. Navy's Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System laser-guided rocket, according to a BAE Systems official. Australia plans to field BAE's APKWS on that country's Army Airbus Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter and Navy MH-60R Seahawk platforms beginning in 2015, Joe Tiano, APKWS program manager for BAE, told Inside the Navy in an Oct. 16 interview. Australia submitted...
