If
the U.S. Army approves funding to keep the production line steady, industry
can deliver 130 Stryker vehicles with "MRAP-like" protection
in time for the next Stryker brigade's deployment, sources said. U.S.
soldiers from the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team patrol in Baqubah,
Iraq.
With
Pentagon approval newly in hand, the U.S. Army on Feb. 25 released its
request for proposal (RfP) for the Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV), the
service's planned next-generation full-spectrum-combat troop carrier.
"I am really hoping for three solid proposals to enter into the
technology development phase," Gen. Peter Chiarelli,
Oshkosh
Defense is displaying two new tactical wheeled vehicles in Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., today through Friday (Feb. 24-26) at the annual Association of
United States Army (AUSA) Winter Symposium and Exposition, The M-ATV
Utility Variant Cargo Carrier and the M-ATV Tactical Ambulance.
BAE
Systems recently completed two successful demonstrations of the Caiman
Multi-Theater Vehicle (MTV) before U.S. military leaders. The vehicle
will be on display at the Association of U.S. Army’s Winter Symposium,
with the new wheeled armoured vehicle, RG Outrider.
Force
Protection, Inc., a leading American designer, developer and manufacturer
of survivability solutions, will debut the Joint All-Terrain Modular
Mobility Asset (JAMMA) vehicle at the Association of the United States
Army (AUSA) Institute of Land Warfare’s Winter Symposium in Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla., February 24-26, 2010.
Anti-terrorist
exercises of the Member States of the Cooperation organization of Shanghai
(OCS) will proceed in Kazakhstan in September, announced Thursday, February
25, 2010, the chief of the Russian Army Land Forces, General Alexander
Postnikov.
Russia's
new Topol M missile system will for the first time be shown at the Victory
Day parade on May 9 on Moscow's Red Square, a spokesman for the Strategic
Missile Forces said. Earlier Topol M predecessors — Topol missile
systems — were shown at Victory Day parades in downtown Moscow.
A
revolutionary new weapon system turret CTA International for the British
and French armies has been given a major boost with the signing on the
8th of February of an £11m contract with the French and UK ministries
of defence.
Oshkosh
Corporation (NYSE:OSK) announced this 23 February 2010 it has received
an additional $640 million award from the U.S. Army Tank-automotive
and Armaments Command Life Cycle Management Command (TACOM LCMC) to
deliver 1,460 MRAP All Terrain Vehicles.
Lockheed
Martin Corp., Missiles and Fire Control, Grand Prairie, Texas, was awarded
on Feb. 4, 2010 a $26,884,609 firm-fixed-price contract for High Mobility
Artillery Rocket System Full Rate Production 5, option exercise for
12 Jordan Launchers.
Starting
this summer, Soldiers sent to fight in Afghanistan will wear an Army
Combat Uniform with the "MultiCam" pattern instead of the
standard-issue universal camouflage pattern. Secretary of the Army John
McHugh made that announcement 19 February 2010.
Oshkosh
Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE:OSK), has been awarded
a delivery order valued at more than $13 million to supply more than
35 next-generation Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Trucks to the Army
Reserve.
The
first two air defense ground-to-air missile system S-400 Triumph systems
have entered combat duty at the regiment base of the Military Space
Defense joint command in Elektrostal, the Moscow Region.
Manufacture
of the first TERRIER engineer armoured vehicle production hull began
on 27 January at the company’s Newcastle plant. In a ceremony
attended by senior staff from both the MoD Combat Wheels Group and BAE
Systems’ suppliers; visitors saw machining operations on the first
side plate commence
Trojan
engineer armoured tank and its Python mine clearance system have been
used for the first time in the ongoing Operation Moshtarak in southern
Helmand province where troops' progress has been slowed by the number
of deadly Improvised Explosive Devices IED.
The
Russian Ministry of the Interior east in negotiation with French General
Panhard Defense in order to acquire light armoured vehicles VBL, written
Tuesday the daily newspaper of Kommersant businesses.
Since
this Friday, February 12, 2010, the NATO forces launched a great offensive
in the South Afghanistan, under the code name “Moshtarak”,
it is the greatest offensive operation carried out by the NATO troops
since 2001, date of the Taliban overthrown.
The
delivery of the new wheeled armoured infantry fighting vehicle VBCI
designed and manufactured by the French company Nexter Systems continues,
after the 35th Infantry Regiment, it's the 92th Infantry Regiment. The
VBCI would
be likely to be deployed in Afghanistan in April of this year.
Vietnam
could arrive soon in second position after India for the volume of the
purchases of Russian armaments, entrusted the vice-director of the Center
of analysis of the strategies and technologies (CAST) Konstantin Makienko
this 10 February 2010, to the Russian press agency RIA Novosti.
Following
the completion of its test program, the Indian missile Agni-3 could
equip the Indian national army soon, announced this 10 February 2010
to the journalists, the director of the program Agni, Avinash Chander.
Oshkosh
Corporation (NYSE:OSK) announced this 10 February 2010, that its Defense
Division received a delivery order to an existing contract valued at
more than $158 million from the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command (MARCORSYSCOM)
for more than 400 Logistics Vehicle System Replacements.
The
Russian and Mongolian Defence Ministers Anatoli Serdioukov and Luvsanvandangiin
Bold evoked this February 8th, 2010 in Moscow, the prospects for the
bilateral cooperation in the military and technical fields, from the
spokesperson of the Russian ministry Irina Kovaltchouk.
Iran
started on 08 February 2010 production of two domestically-developed
unmanned aerial vehicles capable of delivering high-precision bombing
strikes and performing reconnaissance missions, the Fars news agency
said.
Iran
has developed its own air defense system comparable to and even more
sophisticated than the Russian S-300 system, the IRNA news agency said
Monday, citing an Iranian military official.
A
contract on the delivery of advanced S-300 air defense systems to Iran
has been stagnated by technical reasons, the Iranian ambassador to Russia
said on Thursday. Russia signed a contract with Iran on the supply of
at least five S-300 air defense systems in December 2005.