Defence & Security Industry Technology
Ukraine army takes delivery of 50 BTR-3DA 8x8 APC armoured
The State Enterprise "Kyiv Armored Plant", which is part of the Ukrainian State Defense Industry association UkrOboronProm, has delivered 50 new BT...
US Army to improve combat vehicles with APS Active Protection System
US army is on the process to improve protection of combat vehicles and main battle tanks with the use of active protection systems for vehicle armo...
First trial tests of Ukrainian BTR-4MV1 8x8 armoured fighting vehicle
According a video posted on the Facebook account of the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the BTR-4MV1, the latest generation of Ukrainian-made...
US Army would like to test unmanned vehicles with firepower of M1 Abrams tank
Within five years, the U.S. Army would like to start testing remote combat vehicle prototypes, known as RCVs, which are unmanned, as light and as f...
US Army Standoff Robotic Explosive Hazard Detection System tests
U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) conducts rapid and thorough testing of Standoff Robotic Explosive Hazard Detection System (SREHD), an explosive...
First test fire of M17 M18 pistol by 101st Airborne Division
The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) is the first unit of U.S. army to receive the Army's new Modular Handgun System that began fielding the M...
New 2s35-1 8x8 self-propelled howitzer based on 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV
In august 2017, the Russian defense industry has presented the first prototype of a wheeled 152mm self-propelled howitzer called 2S35-1 based on th...
Russian Western maintenance district receives new Kamaz-53501 Trucks
Maintenance units of the Western Military District received close to 20 heavy three-axis KamAZ-53501 cross-country vehicles to transport personnel,...
Argentine army to receive 1st of 4 Chinese-made crane-truck
The Argentine Army has taken delivery of a new SANY STC800 crane truck, which will be operated by the Engineering Battalion 601. The truck is the f...
Australia army new assault rifle EF88 first full operational deployment
The Enhanced F88 (EF88), the Australian Armed Forces new service rifle has just completed its first full operational deployment, winning the confid...
Indonesian Marines sea exercise with BTR-4M amphibious armored
Indonesian Marine Corps performs sea training exercise using Ukrainian-made BTR-4M 8x8 amphibious armoured vehicle. According the first experience ...
New Russian Pantsir-SM air defense missile-gun system ready for 2019
Work to develop the new generation of anti-aircraft air defense missile/gun system Pantsir-SM will be completed in 2019, CEO of Russia’s High-Preci...
RKhM-5M NBC armoured enters in service with Russian airborne troops
The RKhM-5M NBC reconnaissance vehicle has been made operational with Russian Airborne Force NBC protection units, the Defense Ministry’s press off...
New modernized version of AK-103 assault rifle named AK-103M
The Kalashnikov Group (a subsidiary of the Rostec state corporation) Russian small arms manufacturer has modernized the AK-103 assault rifle chambe...
Oshkosh M-ATV with BTR-80A turret and ZU-23-2 used by Yemen rebels
Resistance faction HASM Battalion an rebel groups in Yemen uses captured Oshkosh M-ATV vehicles of Saudi Arabian Army fitted with Russian BTR-80A t...
Live firing demonstration with new mobile SHORAD systems for US Army
A demonstration at White Sands Missile Range in United States by the Maneuver Short Range Air Defense program allowed U.S. program officers to look...
Stratom XR-P robot demonstrates autonomous loading unloading from MV-22 Osprey
Colorado-based Stratom’s new eXpeditionary Robotic-Platform, or XR-P, was recently demonstrated by the U.S. Marine Corps, which used it to autonomo...
Iran has developed Heidar-41 new 122mm 4x4 truck self-propelled howitzer
In September 2017, the Iranian defense industry has unveiled a new wheeled self-propelled howitzer using a Soviet-made D-30 122mmm towed howitzer m...
Saab to deliver batch of NLAW to the Finnish Defence Forces in 2017
Defence and security company Saab has received an order from the Finnish Defence Forces for the Next generation Light Anti-Tank Weapon system (NLAW...
U.S. soldiers began testing of Video Display for mine protected vehicle
A platoon of route clearance engineer U.S. Soldiers began testing a new Multi-Functional Video Display, or MVD, for the Medium Mine Protected Vehic...