2019
Army of Lithuania takes delivery of 110 Unimog U5000 light trucks
On September 26, 2019, the Lithuanian Armed Forces accepted 110 Unimog U5000 trucks of 5t payload manufactured by Germany’s Daimler AG as it is upd...
Raytheon, Rheinmetall form joint venture for US Army combat vehicle competition
Raytheon and Rheinmetall Defence have established a joint venture to offer the Lynx KF41 Infantry Fighting Vehicle for the U.S. Army's Optionally M...
BARS-8MMK 120mm mobile mortar system in service with Ukrainian army
Ukroboronprom, the Ukrainian state defense agency has completed the delivery of 120mm self-propelled mortar system BARS-8MMK to the Ukrainian army ...
Serbian MoD inducts BRDM-2MS reconnaissance vehicles donated by Russia
Serbian Ministry of Defense has adopted several BRDM-2MS 4x4 armored reconnaissance vehicles (ARVs) donated by Russia and begun using them during e...
Three contenders for replacement of Japanese Type 96 APC
On September 10, the Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) under the Japanese Ministry of Defense announced that it had selected th...
U.S. deploys Patriot and THAAD air defense systems to Saudi Arabia
The U.S. is shipping more air defense systems to Saudi Arabia in response to the devastating Sept. 14 drone and cruise missile attack on Aramco’s o...
Mack Defense M917A3 Heavy Dump Trucks meet specification with CARC coatings
Mack Defense and Sherwin-Williams General Industrial Coatings have partnered to implement multiple solutions for applying Chemical Agent Resistant ...
Russian Far Eastern command school gets 40 upgraded BMP-2M IFVs
The Far Eastern military command high school received a batch of upgraded BMP-2M infantry fighting vehicles. The number of vehicles supplied in 201...
Drone Aviation delivers additional WASP aerostats to support U.S. Border Patrol
Drone Aviation Holding Corp. has delivered additional Winch Aerostat Small Platform (WASP) systems to a prime contractor partner in support of the ...
U.S. and Turkish forces conduct second joint ground patrol inside northeast Syria
Turkish and U.S. military forces provided security around their convoy before conducting the second joint ground patrol inside the security mechani...
Russian tank troopers use tank carousel tactics
Tank troopers of a motorized rifles brigade of the Central Military District (TsVO) have used a "tank carousel" tactics to destroy the conditional ...
DSEI 2019: IrvinGQ to demonstrate ATAX aerial delivery system to U.S. Army
IrvinGQ is a parachute and aerial delivery specialist. The company celebrated its 100th anniversary at DSEI 2019. It has been awarded a contract to...
SAIC to deliver technology demonstrator recce vehicle to U.S. Marine Corps
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) won a contract valued at $20.5 million, if all options are exercised, to deliver an advanced, high-...
Vulcano precision guided munitions qualified, ready for fielding
Under the umbrella of the Italian and German governments, Leonardo and Diehl Defence developed and qualified the precision-guided munition family V...
Lockheed Martin to supply Sentinel A4 radars to U.S. Army
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $281,076,408 hybrid (fixed-price-incentive (firm target), firm-fixed-price and cost-reimbursable (no profit/fee)...
New light tank Type 15 at rehearsal of Chinese military parade
On October 1, 2019, China has planned to make a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Dur...
U.S. Army to add Javelin antitank missiles to Stryker infantry fighting vehicles
From 2022, the U.S. Army will start turning large numbers of Stryker infantry carriers into tank-killers by equipping them with remote weapons stat...
Singapore and Indonesian armies conduct Safkar Indopura exercise
The Singapore Army and the Indonesian Army (TNI-AD) have successfully conducted the 31st edition of Exercise Safkar Indopura, which took place from...
Russian Iskander-M missile complex hits mock enemy target within Tsentr 2019
Iskander-M tactical missile complex crews carried out a successful combat missile launch for a training target at the Donguz training ground in the...
SDLE awarded contract for maintenance of Spanish Leopard 2A4 turrets
The Spanish Ministry of Defence has awarded Star Defence Logistics & Engineering (SDLE) the contract for the maintenance of the Leopard 2A4 tur...
