Interview with Peter Mead from Stoof International on the armoured vehicle market trends: For most people the words “armoured vehicle” conjures up, in the first instant an image of a military vehicle; immediately followed by a black limousine and reporters in front of a prestigious building for a G20 meeting. Then of course a rich Arabic sheikh, high risk businessman, Royal family, movie star…
Friday , June 8, 2012, 09:51 AM

GOC Ground Forces Maj. Gen. Shlomo (Sami) Turgeman of IDF (Israel Defense Forces) spoke at the Conference on Air and Land Jointness in a Complex Environment yesterday (Wednesday, May 23), presenting the IDF Ground Force's plans for improving its firepower.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 09:01 AM

A concept study of the highly mobile wheeled Boxer wheeled armoured vehicle equipped with a prototype of the medium caliber turret system LANCE had already been presented to a wide audience at the Eurosatory 2010. Development of this concept study has now been successfully advanced and built up to full functionality.

Friday, May 18, 2012, 12:49 AM

Czech Army Paratroopers of the 4th Rapid Deployment Brigade practiced life fires with new CZ-75 SP-01 Phantom pistols at the Vrsovice Range on 25 April 2012. “Every soldier must know shooting,“ Warrant Officer 2nd Class Vratislav Louda, shooting instructor, opened life fires training by this clear statement.

Monday, April 30, 2012, 11:28 AM

This week the United States Army debuted its latest concept vehicle FED Bravo that not only significantly improves upon fuel economy, it also has the capability to generate and export electric power to Soldiers in austere locations like Afghanistan.
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Saturday, April 28, 2012, 01:49 PM

Not even the tiniest of particles will be able to escape the new super-sensitive explosive detecting device created by Russian scientists. Its laser sensor can pick up on a single molecule in a million from up to 50 meters away. The device was developed over a period of five years by the Siberian branch of the country’s Academy of Sciences.
Friday, April 27, 2012, 05:59 PM

Military logistics is the discipline of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of military forces. Military logistics has become an essential part to support military personnel deployed on the battlefield. The main missions of logistics units are storage, distribution, maintenance, evacuation, disposition of equipment, transport of personnel, maintenance, medical and health service support.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 07:17 PM

Combat units on the battlefield must have vehicles capable of transporting personnel in charge of the command and the management of forces on the battlefield. Commanding officers are assisted in executing these tasks by specialized staff officers and enlisted personnel. These military staffs are a group of officers and enlisted personnel that provide a bi-directional flow of information between a commanding officer and subordinate military units. Sunday, April 15, 2 09:48 PM

Today, Special Forces are engaged in a war against the terrorism and they need multi-purpose combat vehicle able to provide them with tactical mobility in harsh terrain. Tactical vehicles for Special Forces Operations are used for a wide range of missions as counter-proliferation, foreign and homeland security, special reconnaissance, direct action, and unconventional warfare missions.
Sunday, April 15, 2 09:19 PM

In order to save soldier lives on the battlefield, medical units need to provide advanced care on the field and evacuate wounded personnel to a hospital as quickly as possible. Those are the two critical elements. Military ambulances include both ambulances based on civilian designs and armored, but unarmed ambulances based on wheeled armoured personnel carriers (APCs) such as the Dingo 2, VRLA TPK Acmat or the M113 tracked armored vehicle. Saturday, April 14, 2012, 07:00 PM

The troop’s carrier is a light wheeled vehicle design to carry the soldiers on the battlefield with high mobility and all-terrain capacities. In Europe, the troops carrier is protected by armour but in Africa and some Middle East countries, the vehicle use an open top crew compartment. This type of vehicle can also be used as short range reconnaissance patrol vehicle.
Friday, April 13, 2012, 06:10 PM

The modern armoured vehicle personnel carrier (APC) is a combat vehicle designed to transport soldiers on the battlefield. Most of the time the APC can be fitted with a small turret armed with weapons from 7.62 mm machine guns to 40 mm cannons. The vehicle is not used to take part in direct combat, but to carry military personnel on the battle field in safe conditions and to protect the crew against new threats such as mines blast and IED's. Thursday, April 12, 2012, 08:22 PM

Improving safety in the battlefield, infantry soldiers of Israeli Army will receive bullet-resistant fragmentation grenades and long-range smoke grenades in the coming months. IDF (Israel Defense Forces) to receive two new types of grenades this year: one bullet-resistant fragmentation grenade and the other allowing improved tracking of enemy forces.
Monday, April 9, 2012, 11:37 AM

The new AK-12 Kalashnikov assault rifle, which was unveiled in Russia in the middle of February 2012, meets the requirements of Russian customers. Furthermore, the new rifle has good chances to succeed on the foreign market, the designers of the legendary weapon say. According to them, the new Kalashnikov proves that the maker of the rifle has changed its line of conduct and started listening to complaints.
Thursday, April 5, 2012, 10:19 AM

Early this year, the acoustic testing of the Vehicle-Mounted Loudspeaker Equipment for direct communication in theater took place at the German Army Technical Center for Weapons and Ammunition (Wehrtechnische Dienststelle für Waffen und Munition 91 - WTD 91) in Meppen, Germany.
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Monday, March 26, 2012, 06:30 PM

The Vietnamese armed forces modernize its fleet of main battle tanks T-55 with the help of Israeli companies in order to have a battle tank responsive to new threats on the battlefield, and configuration of the country. According to various sources, Vietnam currently has approximately 600 to 850 Russian-made main battle tank T-54/T-55.
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Sunday, March 25, 2012, 09:01 PM

For the purpose of evidencing the mission capability of the PUMA armored infantry combat vehicle in harsh winter conditions, the arctic test of the vehicle takes place in one of Europe’s coldest regions. The PUMA infantry fighting vehicle sets new international standards in technology and design.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 06:52 AM

Twenty five years after it astonished the global defence community, South Africa’s G6 self-propelled Gun-Howitzer still sets the standards against which all long-distance artillery are being measured. “The G6 was ahead of its time when it was first launched in 1987,” says Stephan Burger, the CEO of Denel Land Systems.
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Saturday, March 17, 2012, 03:08 PM

Long lines of people have made their way to the Iron Dome batteries deployed in southern Israel in recent days, distributing gifts and chocolates to Aerial Defense Network soldiers and admiring the life-saving systems that have been operating non-stop.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 08:38 AM

The United States Army expects final delivery of additional Stryker double-V hull armoured vehicles, the Stryker DVH, by year's end and expects to then have a total of about 760.
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 04:44 PM

The artillery battery fired precision, GPS-guided rockets from a fast, and accurate fire system called the HIMARS High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, said 1st Lt. William Prom, the fire direction officer with 3rd Platoon, Tango Battery, 5th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment. The High Mobility Artillery Rocket System enables the Marines to take out enemies in Afghanistan within minutes and strike within feet of a target, every time. Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 10:50 AM

Military experts and media reports that North Korea has succeeded in doubling the range of its 240-millimeter multiple rocket launcher system (MRLS) M1991 in time to celebrate the centennial of the nation’s founder Kim Il-sung’s birth in April.
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Friday, March 2, 2012, 01:50 PM