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The Australian order for 200 Boxer 8x8 combat reconnaissance vehicles granted last March to Rheinmetall Defence in the framework the Land 400 Phase 2 programme leads to generates many additional part supplier contracts next financial year.
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The Australian order for 200 Boxer 8x8 combat reconnaissance vehicles granted last March to Rheinmetall Defence in the framework the Land 400 Phase 2 programme leads to generates many additional part supplier contracts next financial year.
On 22 April, the King’s Own Calgary Regiment unveiled their newest 4x4 armoured vehicle – Textron’s Tactical Armoured Patrol Vehicle (TAPV) – to mark the unit’s regimental anniversary known as St. George’s Day. 500 of the TAPVs will be put into service in the Canadian Forces, with 307 GU (General Utility) variants and 193 outfitted as reconnaissance vehicles.
An Asian nation has contracted with Rheinmetall to supply it with advanced air defence technology. In a competitive bidding process, Rheinmetall Air Defence won the order to supply the customer with the latest generation of its Skyshield systems.
The Indian army should at last receive its long-delayed indigenous NAG antitank guided missiles, whose range reaches 7 to 8 kilometers. 300 units should be delivered “soon”. But 3,000 are needed by the Army.
U.S. soldiers and Marines will finish testing the JLTV Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Thursday, April 17, 2018 at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center here. The JLTV program fills a critical capability gap for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps by replacing a large portion of the legacy HMMWV fleet with a light tactical vehicle with far superior protection and off-road mobility.
The Canadian Company Roshel Defence Solutions has started the production of its Roshel Senator, a 4x4 multi-purpose Armored Personnel Carrier fully designed and developed by the Company. Roshel Defence Solutions is specialized in the design, developing and manufacturing of an extensive range of armoured personnel carriers.
The Finnish Company SISU has developed and designed the SISU GTP, a new 4x4 armored vehicle. In early 1980’s Sisu Auto introduced an armored personnel carrier, SISU Pasi, which still today is in operational use with numerous forces. To respond to new request of military forces, SISU introduces a new 4x4 armored vehicle offering high level of protection and mobility.
On 17 April, Lockheed Martin received a $200 million contract for continued Terminal High Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) and Patriot system integration work.
Russian media reports that Azerbaijan is close to placing an order for ten sets of the Belarusian “Polonez” multiple rocket launch system (MRLS). Based on the Chinese A-200 system, the Polonaise comes rigged on a Volat MZKT-793000-300 8×8 all-terrain chassis.
As part of the Force Mobility Enhancement (FME) project, the Canadian army began receiving 18 new and improved Leopard 2 Armored Engineer Vehicles (Leo 2 AEVs) in late fall 2017 to provide critical support to the Canadian army’s Leopard 2 main battle tanks, Light Armored Vehicles, Tactical Armored Patrol Vehicles and future fleets.
Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) & Bharat Earth Movers Ltd. (BEML) unveiled its latest product viz 155mm/52 calibers Mounted Gun system at DefExpo India 2018 in Chennai, which closed down on 16 April. It was launched jointly by CMD, BEML Shri Deepak Kumar Hota and DGOF & Chairman OFB Shri S K Chourasia.
According to the China Daily, the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force has established a new brigade and armed it with one of the nation's most powerful ballistic missiles.
UkrOboronProm State Enterprise SE Kharkiv Morozov Machine-Building Design Bureau launched armored recovery and repair vehicles (BREM) "Atlet" into serial production.
The Latvian armed forces will be receiving three RQ-20A Puma tactical hand-launched drones from U.S. firm AeroVironment later this year. The acquisition of the surveillance and reconnaissance-mission unmanned aviation systems is being conducted with the aid of over $3 million worth of U.S. government foreign military financing (FMF).
Patria's subsidiary Milrem LCM and BAE Systems have signed a contract to support Estonia's fleet of CV9035 Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs).
The Czech armed forces are currently pressing ahead with a far-reaching modernization programme. Among other things, its fleet of BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles, which dates from the 1980s, is to be replaced with a family of modern systems. Procurement of over 200 new medium-weight fighting vehicles is on the table. Most of these are to be equipped with a high-performance medium-calibre turret. Rheinmetall – a proven, longstanding partner of Czech industry – has put forward its new Lynx for this project, a medium-weight, modular platform armed with the Lance turret system.
1 Royal Gurkha Rifles (1 RGR) have conducted Exercise Askari Storm in Kenya. The Battlegroup consisted of 1 RGR and E Company, 15th Kenyan Rifles from the Kenya Defence Force plus attachments from across 16 Air Assault Brigade, who joined the demanding 6-week exercise.
The Russian-Egyptian tactical exercise Friendship Protectors to be held in Egypt this year will be aimed at practicing counter-terrorism operations, the Russian Defense Ministry’s press office said.
At the upcoming Expo Seguridad in Mexico City Plasan will be showing its broad range of products and solutions including the world debut of an all-new vehicle that moves the boundary of what was previously believed to be possible.
The threat from enemy unmanned aerial systems continues to proliferate at an astonishing rate, said the director of the Army's newly-created Air and Missile Defense Cross-Functional Team, or AMD CFT.
Poland's Wtorplast company has delivered an unspecified number of BMP-1AK (AK stands for Anti-HEAT (high-explosive anti-tank), Anti Kumulyativnaya) infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) to Ukraine.
The Finnish Minister of Defence has authorised the Defence Forces Logistics Command to sign an agreement on bridge-laying equipment systems with Patria. The Defence Forces will get four new Leopard 2L bridge tanks with ability to handle Leguan bridges of different lengths.
According to the Taiwanese United Daily News newspaper, Taiwan has performed a test flight with its local-made UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) dubbed Teng Yun (Cloud Rider in English) near an Air Force base. The Teng Yun is a medium-altitude long-endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle produced by the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (CIST).
Orolia, a world leader in Resilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) solutions, announced today that its subsidiary McMurdo Inc. was awarded a $33,986,800 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to manufacture Personnel Recovery Devices (PRD). This PRD is a dual-mode, MIL-SPEC Personal Locator Beacon that will be integrated into the Army's Personnel Recovery Support System (PRSS). The PRD will be capable of transmitting both open and secure signals (training-combat dual mode) to alert and notify that a soldier has become isolated, missing, detained or captured.
Government acceptance trials of a new antiaircraft artillery module of 57mm caliber designed by Burevestnik Company for Derivatsia-PVO artillery complex are scheduled to begin in 2018, T-digest online portal quoted Uralvagonzavod CEO Alexander Potapov as saying.