Bendigo manufacturer secures billion-dollar contract

Updated October 5 2015 - 4:27pm, first published 8:10am
IMPRESSED: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull gets behind the wheel of a Hawkei light-armoured vehicle as Defence Minister Marise Payne looks on. Thales Australia has won the right to manufacture 1100 of the vehicles from its Bendigo plant.
IMPRESSED: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull gets behind the wheel of a Hawkei light-armoured vehicle as Defence Minister Marise Payne looks on. Thales Australia has won the right to manufacture 1100 of the vehicles from its Bendigo plant.

BENDIGO-BASED manufacturer Thales Australia has been awarded a $1.3 billion contract to build armoured vehicles for the Australian Defence Force.

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