On the mountainous border between India and China tensions are as high as ever. Both sides are digging in with new hardware, investments and equipment making their way from New… Continue reading "China and India Dig In Along Disputed Border"
US technology firm RE2 Robotics have been granted $1.1 million USD Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) from the US Army’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) to develop remote… Continue reading "RE2 Robotics to Develop Autonomous Casualty Extraction UGV Manipulator Arms for US Army"
US Army Contracting Command-Redstone have issued a request for information (RFI) pertaining to a replacement system for the current in-service Raytheon FIM-92 Stinger short-range air-defence (SHORAD) surface-to-air missile (SAM). The… Continue reading "US Army Issues RFI Seeking Stinger Replacement"
Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) has been awarded the contract to manufacture 260 Boxer 8×8 Mechanized Infantry Vehicles (MIV) for the British Army. The vehicles are the first of an… Continue reading "British Army Awards RBSL £860 Million Contract for Boxers"
Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida is to utilise semi-autonomous ‘robot dogs’ as part of their security forces. The base’s 325th Security Forces Squadron has been working with Ghost Robotics… Continue reading "U.S. Air Force Rolls Outs Robot Guard Dogs at Florida Air Base"
It was in the mid-1970s when the Polish People’s Army adopted the newest Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) – a small, tracked vehicle equipped with a 73mm smooth-bore cannon and a… Continue reading "Is The Modernization of Poland’s Ageing BMP-1s A Terrible Idea?"
The signing of a training cooperation agreement between Italy and Qatar has led to rising speculation that the Emirate might purchase CIO’s Centauro II 120mm-armed armored car. During a visit… Continue reading "Centauro II Sale Possible as Italy & Qatar Sign on Cooperation Agreement"
GM Defense have delivered the first Infantry Squad Vehicles (ISV) to the US Army this week. The first production line vehicles will reportedly be heading to the Army’s 1st Infantry… Continue reading "First Deliveries of New Infantry Squad Vehicle for US Army"
Under a new joint venture, Textron Systems and Raytheon Technologies are joining forces with Rheinmetall Defense subsidiary American Rheinmetall Vehicles to offer the KF41 Lynx for the US Army’s long… Continue reading "Rheinmetall KF41 Lynx (Re)Joins Competition for US Army OMFV"
Israeli defense companies Elbit and Roboteam have released a video demonstrating the ability of their collaborative PROBOT Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) to operate without human intervention in order to follow… Continue reading "Elbit and Roboteam Demonstrates Their PROBOT UGV Autonomous Capability Upgrades"