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The Queen’s Own Yeomanry can usually be observed tending to their Jackal vehicle on tank parks throughout the North of England, but they went back to basics this September by putting boots on the ground under the searing Balkan sun.
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To speed up the renewal and modernization of the Land Force (Armée de Terre), the Military Programming Law LPM 2019-2025 foresees an increase of the orders of armored vehicles and an acceleration of their deliveries.
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At the initiative of Maj.Gen. Marc Thys, commander of the Land Component of the Belgian army, an unprecedented military convoy was designed to fit in the scheme of an FTX (Field Training Exercise) but gathering current Belgian army vehicles, World Heritage Institute World War 2 vehicles, and privately-owned World War 2 vehicles.
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Russia has completed the second stage of deliveries of a regimental set of S-400 air defense missile systems to Turkey as foreseen by the contract, the Russian Defense ministry said on 16 September.
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The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems a $318 million contract to upgrade M88 recovery vehicles to the M88A3 configuration designed for single-vehicle recovery of the latest version of the Abrams tank.
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Poland’s army will receive a new tank destroyer on the chassis of the BWP-1 infantry fighting vehicle (a licensed copy of the Soviet BMP-1 land platform), according to the press department of European missile-manufacturing corporation MBDA.
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Similar to the implementation of the new Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT), the U.S. Army is now changing how soldiers qualify with their weapons, making individual weapons qualification more combat-focused beginning October 2019. Sgt. Sarah Sangster explains.
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The Russian Ministry of Defense is reactivating its T-80-family main battle tanks, according to the MoD’s press department.
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Along with other interesting local conversions made in Djibouti as well as in other countries of the region, at least one U.S.-made Cougar MRAP has been spotted with a French-made AML-90 turret, an old device that nevertheless demonstrates the persistent efficiency of this type of armament for local use.
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The Serbian army will receive nine Chinese-built Chengdu Pterodactyl-1 armed drones (otherwise named Wing Loong) in the near future. This will be the first time Chinese drones have been bought by a European country. Fifteen additional units may follow, media reports in Belgrade said.
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Patria’s armoured modular vehicle AMVXP has been chosen to perform a one-year field testing in Japan after a competitive bidding.
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Oshkosh Defense is displaying two Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV) at the Modern Day Marine Expo 2019. The vehicles are on display at Quantico Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia from September 17 through September 19.
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After chosen for one of the companies for test trials by the Border and Coast Guard Division of the Finnish Border Guard, Schiebel’s proven CamCopter S-100 Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Air System (UAS) performed a five-day maritime surveillance demonstration aboard Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) Turva.
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Serial production of Russia’s newest S-500 air defense missile system will start in the second half of 2020, Sergey Chemezov, head of the Rostec Corporation, said in an interview to the RBK newspaper. "I think that the serial production will start in a year," Chemezov declared.
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Paramount Group has announced that the Mbombe 4x4, the newest addition to its advanced Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) family of vehicles, has received final certification for the independently verified blast tests which exceeded the criteria for NATO STANAG 4569 – one of the highest levels of protection that can be achieved by an armoured vehicle in its class.
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South Korea has unveiled a defense project to develop a laser weapon using light sources generated from optical fibers for short-range air defense against UAVs like drones which have been used for an attack on Saudi oil facilities. Lim Chang-won reports in Aju Business Daily.
Rheinmetall Lynx KF41 Infantry Fighting Vehicle downselected for Australian Land 400 Phase 3 program
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Rheinmetall confirms that its Lynx KF41 Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) has been selected by the Commonwealth of Australia to compete with Hanwha Defense' Redback IFV in the Risk Mitigation Activity (RMA) trials for the $15 billion LAND 400 Phase 3 program.
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Novadem, the French SME based in Aix-en-Provence, has just finalized the delivery of the 27 NX70 micro-UAV systems ordered by the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) last December. This order of more than 2M€ was placed in the context of an operational emergency, approved by the French Armed Forces Headquarter at the end of 2018, aiming at quickly endowing land forces with more performing and secured detection capacities, capable of operating by day and night.
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A parade of weapons and equipment including nuclear, hypersonic and stealthy ones were spotted in Beijing early Sunday morning during the second rehearsal to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, delighting online legions of patriotic military enthusiasts. Ma Xiu reports on Global Times.
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The Javelin Joint Venture team, a partnership of Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin, successfully fired Javelin missiles from a Kongsberg remote launcher mounted on a Titan unmanned ground vehicle built by QinetiQ North America and Milrem Robotics. The demonstrations, conducted at the U.S. Army Redstone Test Center, Alabama, validated the integration of the weapon station, missile and vehicle.
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In a major boost for Indian Army, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully flight tested indigenously developed low weight, fire and forget Man-Portable Antitank Guided Missile (MPATGM) in the ranges of Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh.
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There was a major debut of heavy Russian drones in August. The maiden flight of modified Altius-U was overshadowed by the 20-ton Okhotnik. However, it was a major event, as Altius-U will be the backbone of the fleet of Russian heavy drones, the Izvestia daily writes.
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L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has been awarded contracts from two European nations totaling more than $100 million for Falcon manpack and handheld tactical radios. Deliveries of the AN/PRC-158, AN/PRC-160, AN/PRC-152A and AN/PRC-117G radios are underway, with completion expected in 2020.
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During a recent series of demonstrations and trials by DCD Protected Mobility of South Africa, the company fitted Tyron All Terrain Rubber runflats (the ATR-MP), to its Springbuck 4x4 wheeled Armoured Personnel Carrier to ensure the vehicle could keep moving in the event of a sudden deflation.
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On Sept.3, 2019, Col. BEM Tom Bilo took over the command of the Belgian Special Operations Regiment from Col. BEM Vincent Descheemaeker, who is assigned to another position in the Special Operations sphere. Evolving challenges and unprecedented recruitment of nineteen women to carry on identical tasks to those of their male colleagues.
