On 5 November, the British Ministry of Defence announced that it had signed a contract for the delivery of over 500 Boxer 8×8 Mechanized Infantry Vehicles (MIV) worth £2.8 billion… Continue reading "Britain Confirms Boxer Order and Signs £2.8bn Contract"
General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) have publicly debuted their Stryker A1 IM-SHORAD (Initial-Maneuver Short-Range Air-Defense) prototype at the AUSA (Association of the United States Army) trade show in Washington DC.… Continue reading "SHORAD Air-Defense Stryker at AUSA"
Northrup-Grumman has unveiled the XM913 50mm Bushmaster at this year’s AUSA (Association of the United States Army) trade show and conference. The XM193 is based on the proven Bushmaster III… Continue reading "New 50mm Bushmaster Chain Gun at AUSA"
Amidst the controversy of this recent events in Syria, a piece of footage recorded by a journalist for Germany’s Der Spiegel, Alexandra Rojkov, emerged on Twitter. It showed in excellent… Continue reading "Secretive Delta Force Pandur APCs Seen in Syria"
The US Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment have fitted the first 62 examples of the Mounted Assured Precision Navigation & Timing System (MAPS) anti-jam devices to their M1126 Stryker infantry carrier… Continue reading "Jam resistant GPS fitted to Strykers in Germany"
With the passing of the submission date on October 1, two contenders initially emerged for the US Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) programme. OMFV, previously known as the Next… Continue reading "Lynx 41 Disqualified for Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle"
BAE Systems Hägglunds has been awarded a contract this week to fit Elbit Systems’ Iron Fist active protection system (APS) to Dutch Army CV9035NL infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) as one… Continue reading "Dutch Select Iron Fist APS for CV90"
Turkish armoured vehicle firm FNSS, a joint venture between Nurol Holding Inc. and BAE Systems probably best known for the ACV 19 and the ACV 15 family of infantry combat… Continue reading "30 years of Turkey’s FNSS at DSEI 2019"
Infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) from Rheinmetall and Hanwha have been down-selected for the Australian Army’s Land 400 Phase 3 for the procurement of new IFVs to replace the Army’s ageing… Continue reading "Rheinmetall’s Lynx and Hanwha’s Redback Through to Next Stage of Australia’s Land 400 Phase 3"
After recently winning the Australian Army Land 400 Phase 2 requirement for a new Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle, Rheinmetall showcased its core Boxer 8×8 offerings whilst German company Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft… Continue reading "The Rheinmetall Boxer at DSEI 2019"