February 2004 Worldwide news army military Defence industries industry exhibition equipment UK

The most important Air Show " Le Bourget " is a big event for all the Air Industry factories, during this exhibition the team of Army Recognition was there to make a photograph report. Now you can see the two pictures gallery, of Le Bourget 2001 and 2003. To see the complete pictures gallery go to Le Bourget 2001 Pictures gallery and Le Bourget 2003 pictures gallery.
29 February 2004

A police armored vehicle Kader Fahd is parked beneath a Mobile Oil sign at the entrance of Nakhilah town in southern Egypt on Friday, Feb. 27, 2004. Egyptian security forces pursuing wanted men have closed in on the center of the town, where the armed men are believed to have taken some hostages.
27 February 2004

Ugandan soldiers patrol the area near the Barlonyo camp with main battle tank T-55, the site of Saturday's massacre carried out by the Lords Resistance Army,Tuesday, Feb 24, 2004 as the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni visited the area in northen Uganda. The Ugandan President on Tuesday blamed last weekend's devastating rebel attack in northern Uganda on 'mistakes' by the army and apologized to the region's people.
24 February 2004

A Venezuelan military policeman rides in an armored vehicle LAV-150 Commando outside National Electoral building in an effort to separate opposition protesters from supporters of President Hugo Chavez, in Caracas, February 14, 2003. Opponents of Chavez marched through Caracas Saturday to step up pressure on election officials to accept their petition for a referendum against the leftist leader. The National Electoral Council has said it will announce on February 29 whether the opposition handed in the 2.4 million valid signatures required to call a presidential referendum.
14 February 2004

Bolivian people walking past soldiers on patrol in downtown La Paz during a protest with wheeled armoured vehicles EE-9 Cascavel ( See pictures ) on February 13, 2003. One year ago, protests against new government taxes, known as the 'black february' period in which some 31 people died, led to the downfall of former President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. New President Carlos Mesa, who replazed Sanchez de Lozada last October, announced this week a series of financial decrees, measures aimed at protecting the poor from further tax increases, and to squeez the more priveleged segment of the population.
13 February 2004

Japanese Self-Defense force wheeled armored vehicles Type-96 and trucks arrive at the Dutch military base near Samawa, 270 kms south of Baghdad. After months of dreaming that this dusty desert town will be transformed into a booming metropolis by the arrival of Japanese troops. The unit left Japan on 3 February to become the first soldiers engaged in Japan's humanitarian mission to Iraq -- a controversial first deployment to a combat zone since 1945.
10 February 2004