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Malaysian army march during a parade at the historic Merdeka Square in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Friday, Aug. 31, 2007. Malaysia marked 50 years of independence from Britain Friday with dances and parades.
31 August 2007

Turkish army tanks and aircraft take part in a parade marking the 85th anniversary of Victory Day in Ankara, August 30, 2007. More pictures to Turkish Military parade 2007 pictures gallery.
30 August 2007

A U.N. armored vehicle raises dust during a training exercise of the French peacekeepers in the southern village of Tireh, Lebanon Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007. The exercise tests the reactivity of the chain of command, the internal procedure of coordination in order to enhance the operational capabilities.
29 August 2007

A Cougar Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle at Camp Fallujah in an undated photo courtesy of the U.S. Marines. U.S. troops in Iraq will receive at least 1,000 fewer special armored vehicles than expected this year due to the amount of time needed for shipment, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
22 August 2007

A soldier stands guard next to an armored car in Pisco, 240 kms (150 miles) south of Lima, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2007. Last Aug. 15 a magnitude-8 earthquake shook the southern coast of Peru, killing over 500 people and injuring at least 1,500.
21 August 2007

Armoured vehicles advance in formation at the Chebarkul range during the Peace Mission 2007 counter-terrorism exercise of Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states, August 17, 2007. Troops from Russia, China and Central Asian states are taking part in a joint military exercise on Friday designed to show off their alliance's increasing power. More pictures to Peace Mission 2007 pictures gallery.
17 August 2007

A Polish armoured vehicle burns after it was hit by a roadside bomb in Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad August 7, 2007. Lieutenant-Colonel Wlodzimierz Wlogowski, a spokesman of the Multinational Division-Central South, confirmed the attack and said there were no Polish soldier casualties.
07 August 2007

Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has delivered the first of 20 main battle tanks LEOPARD 2 A6M CAN to the Canadian Forces. In the presence of the Canadian Ambassador to Germany, numerous high ranking officers and government representatives Stefan Krischik, Member of the KMW Board, handed over the key of the first LEOPARD 2. Canada has leased from the German Army 20 latest state of the art main battle tank LEOPARD 2 A6M with an integrated mine protection. In the past weeks KMW has readapted those tanks in close cooperation with the Canadian Forces to a configuration that meets all requirements for the current missions. Among those is the installation of slat armor.
03 August 2007

Many European countries are currently in the process of acquiring North Charleston, SC- Protected Vehicles, Inc. is pleased to announce development of its newest wheeled combat vehicle The Protector. Designed to improve upon the shortcomings encountered by the current HMMWV in operational theatre during missions and patrols in Iraq and Afghanistan, The Protector offers advanced armor solutions to threats from both improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and the more recent and devastating explosively formed penetrators (EFP) utilized by the enemy. With a curb weight of only 14,000 pounds, The Protector offers improved safety from ballistics, IEDs and EFPs in a lighter package than the HMMWV. In addition to standard armor, The Protector is designed to accept the up-armor ShieldAll™, available exclusively from Protected Vehicles, Inc. This revolutionary next-generation composite armor material is not only a lighter, more capable and cost-effective armor solution to steel, but has also been repeatedly tested at U.S. Government facilities as a proven defense against deadly EFPs. As the threats on a new asymmetric battlefront continue to evolve, The Protector has arrived to mitigate risks, protect the war-fighters and accomplish the mission.
03 August 2007

Many European countries are currently in the process of acquiring wheeled armored personnel carriers, from former East-Bloc nations replacing their old Soviet BTRs, to NATO countries buying lighter and less protected equipment as replacements for their tanks, to new European states looking for road-mobile and affordable armor. Recent contracts in in Europe have tended to involve competitions between 3 key competitors: General Dynamics subsidiaries MOWAG (Piranha) and Steyr-SSG (Pandur), and Finland's Patria Oyj (AMV). Croatia's finalists were Patria's AMV and GD Steyr's Pandur II. Reportas indicate that the Croatian Army is interested in up to 126 vehicles, with EUR 170 million set aside for the project. Now, there are reports that a winner has been selected – but a press correspondent on the scene says it isn't so…
A Croatian media report claims that a EUR 200 million contract to deliver 126 Armoured Vehicles to the Croatian Army has been awarded to Patria's AMV, with the vehicles built by Duro Dakovic special vehicles in Slavonski Brod. The report adds that GD Steyr's Pandur II had oil leaking problems and one punctured tire during the tests. Press local correspondent says the report is false.
02 August 2007

A 9 Mio. EUR contract was recently signed by the Director of the Norwegian Defence Procurement Agency, Brigadier General Asle J. Kjelsberg, and KMW Managing Director, Dr. Martin Menrath. These systems produced by KMW and successfully in service since 1988 are scheduled to go through a comprehensive modernisation programme that will be specially focused on the fitment of a new electronic control system for the laying equipment. This will keep the Norwegian armed forces at the latest state of the art in this capability segment and will ensure logistic support for the bridgelayers. LEGUAN The LEGUAN bridge has a length of 26 metres and is designed for MLC 70. The bridgelaying operation is fully automatic and, as for the recovery operation, requires less than 8 minutes with the Norwegian wheeled vehicle version. The numerous user countries of the LEGUAN, in addition to Norway, include Finland, Singapore, Greece, Belgium, the United States, South Africa and Spain.
02 August 2007

Egyptian army armored personnel carrier patrols the Egyptian side of the border with the Gaza strip, near the Rafah border crossing in Egypt Sunday, July 29, 2007. Egypt is under stepped-up pressure from the United States and Israel to stop the smuggling of weapons into Gaza ever since the Palestinian militant group Hamas seized control, but Egypt says it needs help from the U.S. and Israel to do so - including more equipment to track the numerous tunnels puncturing the border and more money to deploy more border guards.
01 August 2007

Lebanese soldiers sit atop an armoured personnel carrier on the outskirts of the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, in the northern city of Tripoli, 01 August 2007. Two Lebanese soldiers have been killed at a Palestinian refugee camp where the army has battled Islamists for more than two months, a military spokesman said
01 August 2007