Russia's advanced S-500 air defense system could be developed in the next few years, the Air Force commander said on Wednesday. The S-500 is currently at the blueprint stage at the Almaz-Antei company and is expected to be rolled out by 2012. The S-500 is expected to have an extended range of up to 600 km (over 370 miles) and simultaneously engage up to 10 targets. The system will be capable of destroying hypersonic and ballistic targets. The S-500 is built to replace S-400 Triumph.
20 September 2009

The first phase of joint Russian-Belarusian military exercises began the 18 September 2009 with the involvement of some 100 aircraft and 12,600 military personnel, the Belarusian Defense Ministry announced. The five-day first phase of the joint Zapad 2009 (West 2009) anti-aircraft defense exercises will concentrate on the preparation of defense operations of the regional forces. The second phase of the exercises, on September 23-29, will focus on the effectiveness of the unified regional anti-aircraft defense systems of Russia and Belarus The exercise will, among other things, rehearse interoperability within the framework of the Belarusian-Russian integrated air defense system, which the two countries agreed to establish in February. According to the Belarusian Defense Ministry statement, 63 airplanes, 40 helicopters, 470 infantry fighting vehicles, 228 tanks and 234 artillery systems will participate in the exercises. S-300 air defense missile systems will also be used.
18 September 2009

The Russian ministry of Defense develops rockets with utmost precision for its multiple rocket launchers systems Grad and Smerch, announced the vice-minister Vladimir Popovkine. “The development of ammunition with utmost precision is priority for the Army. We created the systems of Russian tactical operational missiles Iskander, currently we develop the rockets with utmost precision for our systems Grad and Smertch”, declared M.Popovkine before specifying that the problem number one was to create software, in particular digital charts, as well as the improvement of the system GLONASS which would allow the rockets and the others weapons to better direct itself towards a possible battle field. “We had some problems during the operation of the constraint of peace in Georgia, we analyzed them to make some corrections” indicated the vice-minister before explaining that these troubles were related to the fact that the Russian weapons, in particular those with utmost precision, used at the time of the conflict Ossetia-Georgia, use the same frequencies that the Georgian weapons.
18 September 2009

Italian International Security Assistance Force, ISAF, attack by a suicide car bomb attack on their armored convoy, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. A suicide car bomb hit vehicles carrying foreign troops near the U.S. Embassy and an American military base in Afghanistan's capital on Thursday, killing at least ten people and wounding dozens. Six Italian soldiers are killed during this attack.
17 September 2009

AM General, LLC., South Bend, Ind., was awarded on Sept. 15, 2009 a $283,031,875 firm-fixed-price contract to add 1,746 each High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicles to contract. Work is to be performed in Mishawaka, Ind., with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2009. One bid was solicited with one bid received.
17 September 2009

The military exercise, dubbed 'Deployment Direction 2009', were the largest scale tactical exercise to date by the Hungarian defence forces of the NATO Force. During this military exercise, Hungarian army use BTR-80A wheeled armoured personal carrier to cross waters of the River Danube near Ercsi, some 40 kms south of Budapest on September 15, 2008.
15 September 2009

Oshkosh Corporation announced the 14 September 2009 it has received an additional $189 million award from the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command Life Cycle Management Command (TACOM LCMC) to deliver an additional 352 MRAP All Terrain Vehicles (M-ATV) to the U.S. Armed Forces by March 2010. The award also includes aftermarket parts packages.
14 September 2009

Rheinmetall Defence of Dusseldorf and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann of Munich have launched a joint programme to develop a highly protected new vehicle family in the 5- to 9-ton weight class. The first prototype of the four-wheel drive Armoured Multipurpose Vehicle (AMPV) systems was presented to government and military officials in Berlin in June 2009. A second prototype is set to be finished in October this year followed by in-house and army trials. The first version of the AMPV, a 9.3-ton patrol vehicle, will be ready for serial delivery by 2011. Responding to the Bundeswehr’s current GFF (“protected command and role-specific vehicle”) procurement programme, Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann have developed a family of GFF 1/2-class vehicles that fully complies with user requirements. The two defence contractors are financing the development project on their own. The objective of the joint project is to supply the armed forces of Germany and other nations with a vehicle that sets an entirely new standard for mobility, modularity, payload and protection technology; and to safeguard and promote certain technologies vital to German national security.
12 September 2009

Navistar and Caterpillar first announced plans to form a joint venture in June 2008 and have identified the leadership team of the new entity that will establish its headquarters in the Chicago area. As previously announced, the 50/50 joint venture will develop, manufacture, and distribute commercial trucks with an initial focus on markets including Australia, Brazil, China, Russia, South Africa, and Turkey. NC2’s product line will feature both conventional and cab-over truck designs and will be sold under both the CAT and International (Navistar) brands. Separately, Navistar and Caterpillar continue to work on design and development of a new proprietary, purpose-built, heavy-duty CAT vocational truck for the North American market. The trucks, manufactured in Navistar’s Garland, Texas facility, will be sold and serviced through the CAT North American Dealer network. Caterpillar vocational trucks are scheduled for full production in mid 2011.
12 September 2009

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11 September 2009