Qatar cleared for further Apache procurement
Qatar has been cleared to buy a further 24 Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopters to add to the 24 already under contract. The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced on 9 May...
Category: Land
HASC Member Presses Army on Supply Chain Impact of Delaying Chinook Block II Upgrades
A House Armed Services Committee (HASC) member pushed the Army’s likely next chief of staff to consider the potential supply chain impact of delaying upgrades to the service’s CH-47F Chinook fleet at a hearing...
Marines: FVL Intriguing, BUT CH-53K Is Essential
The Marines are hellbent on fielding the troubled CH-53K helicopter to supply the far-flung island outposts they plan on using against China. …read more Read more here:: Breaking Defense (Land)
Intel Will Launch 7-nanometer chips in 2021, and next-generation Ice Lake microprocessors by June
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – For more than year, discussions about Intel Corp. and its microprocessor performance have revolved around delays to the company’s 10-nanometer process. Extreme Tech reports. …read more Read more here:: Military...
Navy League 2019: USMC examining ways to modernise MAGTFs, buy anti-ship weapon
US Marine Corps (USMC) leaders are examining ways to modernise their Marine Air-Ground Task Forces (MAGTFs) and make them lethal in preparation for a large-scale violent conflict with militaries such as China’s. Brigadier General...
Navy League 2019: USN preparing for ANTX technology demos
US Navy (USN) leaders are calling on industry and academia to pitch their manoeuvre, logistics, and force protection ideas and technologies for an upcoming Advanced Navy Technology Exercise (ANTX). During 8 May expeditionary forces...
IDEF 2019: FNSS showcases Pars 8×8 engineering vehicle
FNSS revealed its combat engineering variant of the Pars III 8×8 armoured vehicle, which was developed specifically to meet the requirements of Oman, at the 2019 IDEF exhibition. The vehicle is undergoing qualification tests...
IDEF 2019: Turkey’s MKEK enters remote weapon station market
Turkey’s Makina ve Kimya Endüstrisi Kurumu (MKEK) is internally developing a family of four remote weapon stations (RWSs) that it expects to send through company trials soon. The smallest of these is a 5.56...
IDEF 2019: Pulat APS displayed on M60 main battle tank
To meet a Turkish Land Forces Command (TLFC) urgent operational requirement, Aselsan has developed the Pulat hard-kill active protection system (APS) that leverages technology from the Zaslon – Light (Zaslon-L) APS developed in Ukraine....
France withdraws artillery detachment from Iraq
France’s Task Force Wagram is being withdrawn from Iraq, the French Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 3 May. The MoD said the withdrawal began after the last Islamic State territory was overrun on...
Navy League 2019: US Marine Corps procures Naval Strike Missile
Raytheon will integrate Kongsberg’s Naval Strike Missile (NSM) into the US Marine Corps’ (USMC’s) existing force structure under an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement with the Marine Corps Systems Command, the company announced on...
Images emerge of DT-30PM based Magnolia artillery system
Images emerged on the internet on 7 May of what appears to be Russia’s developmental Magnolia self-propelled howitzer based on the DT-30PM articulated tracked vehicle. The images show a DT-30PM, a large tracked articulated...
China claims development of UAV-launching armoured vehicle
China claims to have developed a “highly mobile” armoured vehicle capable of launching up to 12 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and loitering munitions, according to an 8 May report published by the state-owned Global...
North Korea fires two short-range missiles into Sea of Japan, says Seoul
North Korea fired what are believed to be two “short-range missiles” on 9 May, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) announced that same day. In a short statement the JCS said that the...
IDEF 2019: Otokar’s electrically powered Akrep IIe charges up
Otokar revealed an electrically powered Akrep IIe weapons carrier technology demonstrator at the 2019 IDEF exhibition held in Istanbul from 30 April to 3 May. In a statement, general manager Serdar Görgüç said that...
B-52 Crosses Israel Enroute To Gulf States; Israeli Intel Prompt US Moves
TEL AVIV: As Israelis celebrated their independence day, sources here told Breaking Defense that at least one of the B-52s deployed to the region passed through our airspace, headed to “one of the Gulf...
U.S. Army plans to put laser weapon on Stryker combat vehicles
The Army’s acquisition chief Bruce Jette has confirmed that the U.S. Army has plans to equipped Stryker combat vehicles with a modern laser weapon systems. Soldiers at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, have already been able...
U.S. Army’s acquisition chief: Russians do not want a face-to-face fight with an M1 Abrams tank
U.S. Army increasing its presence across the European theater to contribute to and strengthen the alliance’s deterrence and defense. Soldiers and tanks presence enhance the deterrence capabilities available to the U.S. Army Europe and...
Army vetronics experts reach out to industry for rugged RF antennas for military vehicles
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND Md. – U.S. Army vetronics experts are reaching out to industry for two types of MIL-STD-810G-certified RF and microwave antennas able to operate at frequencies ranging from 600 MHz to 2.7...
Rugged rackmount server for handling military artificial intelligence (AI) uses introduced by Mercury
ANDOVER, Mass. – Mercury Systems Inc. in Andover, Mass., is introducing the EnterpriseSeries RES-XR6 rugged rackmount server product lineup with Intel second-generation Xeon Scalable processors for artificial intelligence (AI), radar, C4ISR, and tactical networking...