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Australian defence industry leader Peter Moran will wear his recent banning by the Russian Foreign Ministry as a “badge of honour”.
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Moran was featured on a recent blacklist published by Russia, which sanctions a collection of defence industry personnel operating in Australia.
The list of 131 personal sanctions against allegedly “anti-Russian Australian citizens” was announced by the ministry on 29 October.
It includes key personnel from defence companies such as Kord Defence, NIOA Group, Electro Optic Systems, Bae Systems, DefendTex, SPEE3D, Codan Group, Sentinel Boats, Ferra Group and others.
Moran, a managing director of Kord Group, leads the company’s development of control and shot recording technologies for defence, law enforcement and security industries.
“My being banned from entering Russia, I wear as a badge of honour,” he told Defence Connect.
“We stand beside Ukraine and many other nations and industries that are aiding its efforts.”
Earlier this year, Kord supplied its first official batch of Advanced Rifle Accessory Control Unit (RACU) Commander Systems to special operations soldiers of the Ukrainian military under an Australian government $100 million package of military assistance announced in April.
The weapon-mounted RACU Commander System is a programmable, centralised point of control and allows a soldier to quickly engage any and all weapon-mounted and body-worn electronic devices, including radios, a torch, laser and other electronic equipment, without removing their hands from the rifle. The device can be mounted as a standard barrel attachment on rifles of Western and Eastern design.
The recently announced Russian blacklist includes personnel from local, state and federal governments and the Australian Defence Force.
The list also sanctions several public personalities associated with the defence industry and government such as Victoria Cross recipient Mark Donaldson (a NIOA Group board member), Western Australia Police Commissioner Col Blanch, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Marcus Hellyer, Gladstone Regional Council mayor Matt Burnett, Queensland Corrective Services Minister Nikki Boyd, NSW Corrections Minister Anoulack Chanthivong, Western Australia Corrective Services Minister Paul Papalia, Christopher Pyne and Robert Nioa among others.
“In response to politically motivated sanctions against Russian individuals and legal entities by the Australian government, introduced as part of the Russophobic campaign of the ‘collective West’, entry into the Russian Federation is closed on an indefinite basis for an additional 131 Australians from among representatives of the military-industrial complex, journalists and public figures who are forming an anti-Russian agenda in this country,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
“Considering that official Canberra does not intend to abandon its anti-Russian course and continues to introduce new sanctions, work on updating the Russian ‘stop list’ will continue.”
