$40Bn opportunity in guided weapons puts Australian industry front and centre
Quickstep welcomes this announcement regarding the $1Bn investment in sovereign capability for domestic missile and complex weapons production in Australia. This will create extensive opportunities across the Australian supply chain, generating high-value engineering and production jobs within a projected $40Bn enterprise over the next 20 years.
Composites form a significant part of missile airframes and Australia is home to one of the very best high volume aerospace composite businesses. Quickstep’s Bankstown site has extensive experience in manufacturing composite components for missiles on domestic and multi-national programs.
Recent investments in advanced manufacturing capabilities have demonstrated high-volume low-cost production of complex composite and metal assemblies for high temperature, high pressure aerospace applications.
“We look forward to detailed engagement across the global supply chain to generate meaningful opportunities in design, development, manufacturing and aftermarket support for Australia’s future missile and complex weapon programs” added Mark.