Thales Australia (formerly ADI Limited) was the primary defence contractor for the Australian Defence Force. It provided 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 produced a variety of smokeless powders for reloading rifle, pistol & shotgun cartridges, although were better known for their production of Australian armoured vehicles, such as the Bushmaster, producing Australian specific modifications to imported military vehicles, and building the current generation ANZAC class Frigates at Williamstown in Australia. The Australian Defence Force numbers about 53,000 full-time active duty personnel plus another 20,700 reservists. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Steyr AUG is a family of firearms, first introduced in 1977 by the Austrian company Steyr Mannlicher. ... Bushmaster is a name that has been applied to a number of things: Bushmaster (snake) (Lachesis muta), a venomous snake of the viper family. ...

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. Tenix itself was a tear-away company of Transfield Holdings, 50% shareholders of ADI, which broke off after the retirement of the original Transfield owner Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, the company passed into his sons hands, Luca, Guido and Marco, who subsequently broke the company up into 3 parts, Transfield Services, Transfield Holdings, and Tenix. [1] Tenix Pty Ltd is the parent company of the Tenix Group, Australia’s largest locally-owned defence and technology contractor. ...

ADI was based on Garden Island Naval Base in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, though they also maintained 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. [2] The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of over 4,200,000 people, and 151,920, in the city limits. ...

In October 2006, the Australian federal government paved the way for Transfield Holdings, 50% shareholder of ADI to sell their shares to Thales Australian Holdings, the Australian branch of a French military engineering firm, and as of November, all ADI operations have in fact, been taken over by the company, and is now known as Thales Australia. [3] The Thales Group (Euronext: HO) is a global electronics company serving aerospace, defence, and information technology markets worldwide. ...

References

External links

• ADI/Thales Website
• ADI/Thales Smokeless Powder Handloaders Guide
• Official RAN ANZAC Frigate listing
• Thales Australia Bushmaster page