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May 04 2021

Boeing Action May 2021

Boeing Making a killing with Apache helicopters

MEDIA RELEASE

Disruptive protest at Brisbane weapons company

10.00 AM Tuesday May 4th
Boeing Head Office, 150 Charlotte St Brisbane

The head office of weapons manufacturer Boeing has been occupied by a West Papuan solidarity group in Brisbane today. Activists have erected a memorial to murdered West Papuan civilians in the arms company’s lobby to commemorate over 30 civilian victims of military violence during 2020-21.

Boeing Apache helicopters are currently strafing villages in the Puncak and Intan Jaya regions of West Papua, after Indonesian President Widodo declared a major offensive against ‘separatists’ in the region. Civilian casualties have yet to be counted. The attacks have caused a refugee crisis, with thousands of Papuans fleeing their homes and farms to escape the Boeing aircraft.

“Wipe them out, we can talk about human rights later” was the injunction given by the head of Indonesia’s parliament, Bambang Soesatyo, on April 26, as the Indonesian parliament declared the ‘OPM’ or Papuan Independence Organisation to be a terrorist group. Additional troops, including Australian trained anti-terrorist D88 forces, are deploying to West Papua daily. Boeing profits from attacks on West Papua through lucrative sales to the Indonesian army, TNI.

Boeing is poised to sell 36 new F15EX fighter jets to Indonesia’s air force after meeting with Indonesia’s Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto in October 2020. The F15EX deal, negotiated after the Trump administration dropped a visa ban against Prabowo, is worth $USD billions to Boeing. Prabowo had been banned from entering the US under legislation prohibiting known war criminals from obtaining visas. Now Defence Minister, Prabowo was once head of the notorious special forces unit Kopassus and stands accused of multiple crimes against humanity.

Activists in Boeing’s Brisbane office are calling on the weapons manufacturer to cancel the deal with TNI, accusing the company of ‘collateral murder’.

Contact: Margaret Pestorius  0403 214 422

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Boeing Making a killing with Apache helicopters

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Boeing is making a killing

Boeing is the second-largest defence contractor in the world Boeing sells Apache and Chinook helicopters, 737 troop transporters F15 ‘counter-insurgency’ fighter jets to the Indonesian air force. Boeing weapons are directly implicated in war crimes against West Papuan people.

VIDEO: ACTION Aug 2020

Wage Peace at Boeing Brisbane; They are building weaponised drones.

The Wingman is a fighting drone with weaponised and fully autonomous. A LAWS – Lethal Autonomous Weapons System.

Boeing is Out of Control was a disruptive performance art piece for Guitar, Violin, Electric Guitar, Voice and Protest Crowd Collective Voice. Performed by Peace Pilgrims.

Boeing in West Papua

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Written by Cate Adams · Categorized: Boeing

Apr 19 2021

Elbit Systems Australia

Canberra: Head Office, Level 3, AMA House 42 Macquarie St Barton ACT
Melbourne: UNKNOWN at present time, Fisherman’s Bend Port Melbourne VIC Phone : + 61 3 8644 1600
Brisbane: 562 Curtin Avenue East Eagle Farm QLD
Phone : + 61 3 8644 1600

Officially headquartered in Canberra, Elbit has major offices and weapons factories in Brisbane and Melbourne, with training staff also located at Commonwealth facilities in Townsville and Canungra (Qld); Duntroon (ACT); Puckapunyal and Wondonga (Vic).

Weapons manufacturer Elbit is a major Israeli company and a key supplier to the Israeli Defence Force, with subsidiaries in the US, Australia and Brazil. Elbit’s drones patrol the wall around Palestine as well as the US-Mexico border. Elbit manufactures virtually every kind of weapon there is, from cannons to killer robots, including cannons capable of firing cluster bombs and white phosphorous munitions, used in Israeli attacks on Gaza and allegedly used on the people of Nduga in West Papua.

In February 2024 the Australian government awarded Elbit Systems a $917 million contract to deliver “advanced protection, fighting capabilities and sensors suite” to the Hanwha-made Redback Infantry Fighting Vehicles, also known as IFV’s (shown below) for the Australian Army. Almost $1 billion dollars of our money is going to this harms dealer during a genocide.

In 2023, Elbit made $6 Billion USD from dirty weapons sales, with $17.8 billion worth of weapons on back order. In their 2023 annual report, Elbit warned that their business relies on the support of governments around the world to make contracts with them. Elbit relies on conferences like Land Forces to survive. Imagine the impact we can have by shutting down land Forces!

Israeli Defence Force use of white phosphorous on Palestinians

Cluster bombs have been used by Israel in Lebanon and Syria. Elbit claimed in 2019 that they do not produce cluster bombs, however Elbit continues to produce artillery systems capable of launching cluster bombs.

Elbit appears to have supplied Myanmar’s military with a range of weapons, including armed drones, both for the genocide against the Rohingya and in the suppression of the democracy protest movement.

Customers include India and the Philippines, Chile and Colombia, along with the US – all countries where frequent abuses against civilians are reported, involving sophisticated weaponry and police or military collaboration. In February and March of 2021, Elbit announced major new sales of UAVs and tanks to ‘an unnamed SE Asian country’.

Elbit’s Australian enabler, former Defence Minister and current Defence lobbyist Christopher Pyne holding a DroneShield weapon while he was still Defence Minister. These weapons have been identified in use by the Israeli Defence Force in Gaza.

Elbit President Bezhalel Machlis

Elbit President Bezhalel Machlis

Elbit Systems Ltd.
Advanced Technology Center
P.O.B. 539, Haifa 3100401, Israel
Tel: +972 77 294 0000
info@elbitsystems.com
www.elbitsystems.com

Elbit Australia Executive Chair Karen Stanton

Executive Chair of Elbit Systems of Australia: Dr. Karen Stanton

Pyne represents DroneShield as a lobbyist. Pyne became a lobbyist for Elbit as soon as legally possible, after securing $89 million worth of contracts for Elbit while Australia’s Defence Minister. Pyne arranged a ‘meet the arms dealers’ do at Parliament House, spruiking Elbit weapons to sympathetic MPs. No Greens MPs were invited, however Lidia Thorpe and Jordan Steele John gate-crashed the event. Senator Steel John called it “one of the most egregious and sickening examples of the revolving door of former politicians becoming lobbyists for their big corporate mates that I have seen.”

In February 2021 Elbit Australia partnered with the Victorian government to launch a Victorian Research Centre of Excellence Artificial Intelligence, autonomy and robotics to “drive the research, development and commercialisation of defence technologies… Utilising specialist Australian engineers, Elbit’s new Port Melbourne-based Centre will work with Victorian universities and research organisations to foster collaboration within the innovation ecosystem, create new products and develop existing research discoveries into licensed products.” Translated, this means using brilliant scientific minds to create new weapons for sale.

Elbit Hermes 900 killer drone, in use in the Philippines

Elbit’s ATMOS 155mm truck-mounted howitzer – cluster bomb capable

Elbit sales to Indonesia for use in West Papua

Elbit-EOS T2000 turret

EOS CEO Ben Greene with then defence Minister Christopher Pyne

EOS CEO Ben Greene with then Defence Minister Christopher Pyne, launching the EOS-Elbit T2000 ‘turret with the works’ in 2019.

The EOS-Elbit T2000 ‘turret with the works’ was a proud collaboration between Australian company EOS and Elbit Systems Australia. The ‘turret with the works’ has since been sold to Indonesia, for use on Czech Pandur tanks. EOS’ CEO Ben Greene promotes the T2000 as supporting a wide range of ‘lethality solutions’ and having ‘unprecedented firepower‘.

Elbit-EOS T2000 turret installed on a Hanwha tank

Ares (Elbit’s Brazilian subsidiary) Cardom ‘Mekatronik’ Mortar

The Cardom Mekatronic Mortar features ‘forward observer (FO) target acquisition sensors’ that can fire 16 mortars per minute with a range of up to 7km.

Elbit UT30MK2 unmanned turret

Elbit configurable unmanned turret, the UT30MK2

Apache Aviator Integrated Helmet, to be paired with Boeing Apache attack helicopters.

In 2015 the Indonesian Air Force purchased 300 ‘AAIH’ from Elbit Systems America for $13.2 million USD. The Apache Aviator Integrated Helmet is a key component of the AH-64E’s Integrated Helmet and Display Sight System (IHADSS)-21 system for the Apache Guardian attack helicopter. Essentially it enables Apache crews to slave on-board guns and missiles to the helmet. Crews aim weapons simply by looking at targets.

Indonesia Commander in Chief of the Armed forces with Air Force commander, trying out the new Elbit helmets.
Elbit display of the AAIH helmet
Elbit Helmet on US soldier
Elbit Helmet on US soldier

Written by Cate Adams · Categorized: Elbit

Mar 27 2021

Boeing Video

Boeing video by landforces

Boeing is the fourth-largest harms dealer in the world. Boeing sells Apache and Chinook helicopters, 737 troop transporters F15 ‘counter-insurgency’ fighter jets to the Indonesian air force. Boeing weapons are directly implicated in war crimes against West Papuan people.

Arms dealers like Boeing are making a killing by exporting terror. Join us to demand that our taxes, our resources and our best scientists and engineers work for planetary health and human wellbeing, not for organised murder.

Written by Cate Adams · Categorized: Boeing

Mar 27 2021

Boeing Actions

Boeing action

11 August 2020
Peace activists disrupted work at the Brisbane office of Boeing Defence this morning, saying the company’s construction of weaponised drones and other autonomous weapons is part of a militarism that is out of control.

Spokesperson Greg Rolles said “We are here today because Boeing builds aircraft for war crimes. The attack helicopter that killed journalists in the infamous ‘Collateral Murder’ video was Boeing’s. Boeing unmanned drones have destroyed civilian infrastructure in Yemen, enabled an unlawful campaign of extra-judicial assassination, and left countless people in fear of their own skies.”

Mr Rolles said “Boeing’s further research into artificial intelligence will take humanity even more out of the loop. Boeing is now building armed drones in Brisbane and siphoning money out of Australian communities into the production of weapons designed to kill. Boeing is out of control.”

The Australian government this year committed to contributing $40 million to Boeing’s development of the autonomous combat aircraft “Loyal Wingman”. The Department of Defence’s Force Structure Plan stated “new and existing aircraft will combine with remotely piloted and autonomous systems to provide increased lethality and survivability.”

Mr Rolles said “the impacts of the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic this year have shown clearly that our real security comes not from bigger bombs but from better co-operation; from technology that conserves life rather than that which kills. Yet Boeing is taking our taxpayers money and some of the brightest engineering minds to develop weapons that increase conflict, and artificial intelligence that takes human connection and empathy out of the picture. The militarism embodied by companies like Boeing is out of control, and the future of humanity depends on us taking it back.”

Written by Cate Adams · Categorized: Boeing

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