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The Australian Army is Australia's military land force. It is part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. The Army is commanded by the Chief of the Army (CA), who is responsible to the Chief of the Defence Force (CDF).

Australian soldiers have been involved in a number of minor and major conflicts throughout its history, but only in World War II did Australian territory come under direct attack.

Contents 1 Mission 2 Organsation 2.1 Special Forces 3 Equipment 3.1 Small Arms 3.2 Artillery 3.3 Air Defence 3.4 Armoured Vehicles 3.5 Aircraft

Mission

Australian Government websites state that the Army's mission is to provide a potent, versatile and modern Army to promote the security of Australia and protect its people and interests. Further, the Army's key doctrine publication, The Fundamentals of Land Warfare, states that "the Army’s mission is to win the land battle".

Organsation

The Australian Army consists of a number of Brigades, each of which has different roles. The Brigades are based around Infantry Battalions. Elements from other units, (or the entire units themselves) are attached as required to form Brigade battle groups, or Battalion battle groups

• 1 Brigade (Mechanised infantry, equipped with CV90A and ASLAV)
  • 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
  • 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
  • 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment
• 2 Brigade (Motorised Infantry, equipped with M113, and ASLAV)
  • 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
  • 8th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
  • 9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
• 3 Brigade (Light Infantry, equipped with Bushmaster IMV, and ASLAV)
  • 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
  • 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
• 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (Airborne)
  • 1st Armoured Regiment, Armoured Regiment
  • 2nd/4th Armoured Regiment, Armoured Regiment
  • 2/8th Armoured Regiment, Armoured Regiment
  • 2nd Cavalry Regiment, Formation Reconnaissance Regiment
  • 3rd/4th Cavalry Regiment, Formation Reconnaissance Regiment
  • 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment, Formation Reconnaissance Regiment
• 16 (Aviation) Brigade
  • 1st Aviation Regiment, Attack helicopter Regiment
  • 5th Aviation Regiment (transport helicopter)
  • 173rd Surveillance Squadron (light aircraft)
  • Aviation Support Group Workshop

Special Forces

Special Forces are controlled by Australian Special Operations Command

• Australian Special Service Regiment
• 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
• 1st Commando Regiment (Australia)
• 171st Aviation Squadron (Australia)

Equipment

Small Arms

• L9A1 Browning Hi-Power Pistol
• Heckler und Koch USP Pistol (Special Forces)
• F88 Austeyr Rifle
• M4A5 Carbine (Special Forces)
• Heckler und Koch MP5 Submachine Gun (Special Forces)
• F89 Minimi Light Machine Gun
• MAG 58 General Purpose Machine Gun
• M2 QCHB Heavy Machine Gun
• Remington 870 Shotgun
• M203-PI Grenade Launcher
• Mk 19 Automatic Grenade Launcher
• SR-98 Sniper Rifle
• AW50F Anti-Material Rifle

Artillery

• L16 81mm Mortar
• L118 Light Gun
• M198 howitzer

Air Defence

• FIM-92 Stinger
• RBS-70
• MIM-163 Scimitar
• MIM-120 AMRAAM

Armoured Vehicles

• M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank
  • M104 Wolverine Heavy Assault Bridge
  • M1 Abrams Armored Recovery Vehicle
  • M1 Grizzly Engineer Vehicle

• CV90A (CV90 modified for Australian conditions, including ADF standard communications equipment, and environmental systems for Australian conditions, drinking water cooling and storage)
  • CV9040A Original version, upgraded with twin TOW launchers
  • CV9035A AAV (Turret system with 2 35mm cannon, and 8 ACLOS/IR guided missiles, Battalion level air defence)
  • CV90A-FOV Forward Observation Vehicle
  • CV90A-R Armored Recovery Vehicle
• M113A4 MTVL
  • M113A4 Recovery Vehicle
  • M113A4 Cargo Vehicle
  • M113A4 Fitters Vehicle
  • M113A4 Engineers Vehicle
  • M577A4 Command Vehicle
  • M727A4 HAWK-AMRAAM Launcher
  • M901A4 Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) armed with TOW missile
• M8 Buford
• ASLAV
  • ASLAV-25 (Reconnaissance)
  • ASLAV-S (Surveillance)
  • ASLAV-F (Fitter)
  • ASLAV-R (Recovery)
  • ASLAV-A (Ambulance)
  • ASLAV-PC (Personnel Carrier)
  • ASLAV-AT (Anti-Tank)
  • ASLAV-AD (Air Defence)

Aircraft

• S-70A Blackhawk
• CH-47D Chinook
• OH-58A Kiowa
• Tiger ARH