As it seeks to replace the current Australian Light Armoured Vehicle (ASLAV) that serves its military needs, the country’s Department of Defence recently approved the purchase of over 200 Boxer vehicles manufactured by German defense contractor Rheinmetall. Not many of them have been delivered yet, but the ones that were have already started being put through their paces by the local military.
This month, though, and well into the next one, the first major deployment of Boxer vehicles is taking place during the Diamond Walk 2021 exercise at Shoalwater Bay Training Area in Central Queensland.
The Australian Army calls the deployment “the largest exercise the vehicle has operated in since its introduction,” and seeing the massive 8×8s move or fire their weapons kind of fits right in with that description....MORE
