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The latest version of Israel’s Trophy defense system stopped more than 95 percent of roughly 300 rockets and missiles shot at it in Israeli tests this summer, laying the groundwork for US Army testing...
The Russian Armed Forces have deployed 2S23 Nona-SVK self-propelled gun systems for the Issyk-Kul Anti-Terror 2018 CIS exercise in Kyrgyzstan. A Russian defense official was quoted by the RG.RU newspaper as saying on 25...
The U.S. Army Contracting Command has awarded AM General a contract for modernizing and extending service life of the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs). The contract, announced Monday by the U.S. Department of...
WASHINGTON – Great-power strategic competition, defend forward, and prepare for war: These are the three central tenets of the newly released summary of the 2018 Department of Defense Cyber Strategy. War On The Rocks...
The U.S. Department of Defence (DoD) announced on 24 September that the U.S. Army had signed a modification to contract for High Mobility Engineer Excavator Type-1 vehicles. According to DoD’s statement, JCB Inc. was...
THE MIL & AERO COMMENTARY – The last decade of the 20th Century brought waves of change to the U.S. military after the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, when Pentagon leaders adjusted to...
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is beefing-up the Army with more heavy armored combat vehicles to meet future challenges of near-peer threats. The latest part of that shift means big changes to the missions and...
ROSEMONT, Ill. – Emerson in Rosemont, Ill., is introducing the SolaHD SDN 16-12-100C power supply for factory automation, petrochemical processing, chemical plants, wastewater treatment, material handling, and similar applications. …read more Read more here::...
The Indian Army (IA) is to conduct validation trials of the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Spike anti-tank guided weapon (ATGW) ahead of deciding whether to procure the system via an inter-governmental agreement (IGA) in...
The Burkinabe Air Force (FABF) has conducted its first airstrikes using its Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano light attack aircraft, Jane’s has confirmed. Burkina Faso’s Armed Forces General Staff (EMGA) announced that airstrikes were carried...
UK bridging system manufacturer WFEL presented a concept model of a Boxer bridging module for medium-class vehicles at this month’s DVD 2018 exhibition, held on 19–20 September at Millbrook Proving Ground, Bedfordshire. WFEL is...
The head of Strategic Command must be very happy this evening, having learned that the Air Force is finally buying a new helicopter to guard America’s ICBM fields. The Boeing-Leonardo team won the contract...
Leonardo DRS and Israel’s Rafael completed successful live-fire qualifications for a lighter version of their Trophy active protection system (APS), demonstrating potential for future integration on smaller Army vehicles, including Bradleys and Strykers, the...
OVER EASTERN, N.C. — Before lifting off from Raleigh, N.C., pilot Peter Doerr, a chief warrant officer with the Maryland Army National Guard explains the day’s humanitarian relief mission and the CH-47F Chinook helicopter...
The U.S. soldiers from Fort Hood are testing new Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle, or AMPV, as part of U.S. Army’s program to replace the Vietnam-era M113 Family of Vehicles. According to Killeen Daily Herald Lana...
UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced of extension of support to Ukraine’s Armed Forces. The Defence Secretary announced the expansion of the UK Defence Section in Kyiv and introduction of a permanent Naval...
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Monday that Moscow will supply an advanced S-300 missile defense systems to Syria within two weeks. The report in Russian newspaper Kommersant quotes senior Russian defense official...
General Dynamics Mission Systems-UK (GDMS-UK) presented its Hawk vehicle, a concept demonstrator of the company’s proposal for the United Kingdom’s Hotspot requirement, at the DVD2018 exhibition held at the UK Millbrook Proving Ground in...
British industry has been given the go-ahead to present its proposals to the prime contractor of the 8×8 Boxer, to potentially be selected to participate in the British Army’s upcoming acquisition of 500 examples...
South African company OTT Technologies has completed company trials of its Puma M36 Mk 6A 6×6 logistics support vehicle and officials said production can commence as soon as orders are placed. The platform has...
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