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South Korean Army armored vehicles participate in an annual winter military exercise against a possible attack from the North Korea at Yeoju, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007. North Korea repeated its demand during talks with the United States this week that Washington lift financial restrictions targeting the communist regime, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper reported Thursday, after the meetings ended without a clear breakthrough.
31 January 2007

Venezuela is willing to buy from Russia Tor-M1 air defense missiles, the local media reported. The deal budget is estimated at roughly $290 million. In Venezuela, Tor-M1 missiles could be used together with the radars of Chinese make and 24 combat aircraft acquired in Russia. Tor-M1s are the air defense missiles of fifth generation capable of opposing both the planes and the cruise missiles. It is yet the sole system in the world that will simultaneously spot and identify up to 48 targets. In one go, it can accompany and fire at two targets flying at the altitude of 20 to 6,000 meters.
29 January 2007

Russian arms export monopoly Rosoboronexport confirmed Tuesday it has completed delivery of Tor-M1 anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran under a contract. "The [Tor-M1] systems were delivered in late December of last year," Rosoboronexport Director General Sergei Chemezov said. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov first announced the completion of the delivery last week. Russia undertook to supply 29 Tor-M1 missile systems to Iran under a $700 million contract signed at the end of 2005. The United States protested the deal, which it feared could bolster the military capabilities of the Islamic Republic, classified by Washington as a "rogue state" and part of "the axis of evil." Russia has insisted that the contract for the delivery of the Tor-M1 missiles to Iran was concluded in line with international law, and that the system is intended for defense purposes only.
24 January 2007

Portugal was the first country to select the Pandur II 8x8, awarding Steyr-Daimler-Puch a EUR344.3 million (USD455.1 million) contract (plus a spares contract worth another EUR20.7 million) for the supply of 260 vehicles in February 2005. Two hundred and forty of these are destined for the Portuguese Army in 11 configurations, and the remaining 20 for the Portuguese Marines in four amphibious versions. Portugal has taken an option on a further 33 vehicles configured as Mobile Gun Systems (MGS). Second in line was the Czech Army, which it was announced in June 2006 had placed an EUR821 million order for 199 vehicles (plus 35 options) in 18 versions, all of which will be amphibious, including 63 infantry combat vehicles (ICVs).
24 January 2007

The new military's Active Denial System, a non-lethal ray gun that was demonstrated Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. The system shoots a beam of energy that makes people feel they are about to catch fire. Officials say it's safe and humane. It could be used in Iraq to protect the U.S. military from insurgents and to save the lives of innocent Iraqis.
24 January 2007

Lebanese soldiers and armoured personnel carriers M113 stand guard in front of protesters in Dora, east of Beirut, January 23, 2007.
23 January 2007

The Israel Defence Force (IDF) is set to manufacture and procure the Namer (Tiger) heavy armoured personnel carrier (APC), which is based on the Merkava main battle tank (MBT). The procurement still requires the approval of the General Staff, but the Israeli Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) Merkava Project Administration (Mantak) is already preparing a production line for the new APC. "The Namer will close the growing manoeuvrability and survivability gap between IDF armour, which has been constantly receiving advance MBTs, and the infantry, in which we have hardly invested in recent years," another IDF source said. "The fighting in Lebanon demonstrated the centrality of infantry and the need to protect it from RPGs, IEDs [improvised explosive devices] and mines
23 January 2007

The U.S. Army Tank Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM), in support of the Program Executive Office for Combat Support and Combat Service Support (PEO CS&CSS), has awarded a contract for USD$76.5 million to General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada to provide 169 RG-31 Mk5 Mine Protected Vehicles, with an option for nine additional vehicles. General Dynamics Land Systems, the Canadian company's parent corporation, is a business unit of General Dynamics.
22 January 2007

Rheinmetall AG of Dusseldorf has won an order from the Swiss Army for a new generation of armoured engineer vehicles. Under the order, Rheinmetall will supply the Swiss Army with twelve Kodiak armoured engineer vehicles, known in Swiss military parlance as the "Geniepanzer".
22 January 2007

Ethiopian army truck leaves the Somali capital Mogadishu. Ethiopian troops have begun withdrawing from Mogadishu nearly four weeks after they helped oust Islamist forces from the Somali capital.
23 January 2007

A convoy of U.S. wheeled armoured vehicles Stryker patrol a road near the scene of simultaneous bomb attacks in Baghdad January 22, 2007. Two simultaneous car bombs blasted a busy market in central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 75 people in fresh violence that came as Iraqis awaited the start of a planned U.S.-backed offensive in the capital.
23 January 2007

Armoured vehicle BRDM-2 takes position to keep demonstrators away in a suburban avenue of Conakry. Police shot dead 17 protesters across Guinea, raising to 27 the death toll in almost two weeks of a general strike and demonstrations against President Lansana Conte's rule, medical and union officials said.
22 January 2007

Ethiopian soldiers walk past a vehicle bearing the insigna of the fundamentalist Islamic Courts movement in Mogadishu. A convoy of Ethiopian tanks and armoured vehicles has been ambushed in southern Mogadishu, triggering a major firefight in the Somali capital, witnesses said
20 January 2007

A Spanish U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon unit made up of two armored vehicles inspects the roads in the southern village of Wazzani, close to the border with Israel , Lebanon, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007. A dispute erupted between residents and Spanish peacekeepers over the troops' presence in a south Lebanon village, newspapers and the U.N. said Thursday, the first such incident since a beefed-up international force began policing the Israeli-Hezbollah cease-fire.
18 January 2007

Unidentified Somali government military officers talk near an armoured personnel carrier inside warlord Mohamed Qanyare Afrah's Dayniile base in the capital Mogadishu, January 17, 2007.
17 January 2007

Brazilian Army soldiers patrol Rio de Janeiro's linha vermelha (red line) highway January 17, 2007, in an operation to protect members of the Mercosur trade bloc. The Mercosur meeting will take place January 18-19. Mercosur counts Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Venezuela as full members. Bolivia and Chile are associate members.
17 January 2007

A U.S. soldier aboard an armoured vehicle helps provide security to a convoy of U.S. vehicles from Kuwait as they arrive in Basra, 550 km (340 miles) south of Baghdad January 15, 2007. The first additional American troops who will take part in a major new security plan in Baghdad have arrived in the Iraqi capital, the U.S. commander in Iraq , General George Casey, said on Monday.
15 January 2007

An Indian army TK T-72 M1 AJEYA tank participates in the Army Day parade in New Delhi January 15, 2007.
15 January 2007