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Titan Defense is well known for being a leading specialist in tactical fuelling solutions. Its range includes Fuel Tankers, Aircraft Refuellers, Containerized Solutions and Forward Area Refuelling Equipment. At FED2019, Titan Defense is showing its MRO capabilities (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul).
The Russian Defense Ministry radically increases the firepower of the coastal troops in Crimea. They are receiving Tornado-G multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) which replace Grad in artillery regiments and battalions of the peninsula. Tornado-G is fully automatic and can independently guide missiles at targets, the Izvestia daily writes.
The tactical mobility will enable quick insertion of the howitzers in areas close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China, which can move weapons, equipment and troops at a swifter pace because of better infrastructure. Rahul Singh reports in The Hindustan Times.
In the late 1950s and early ‘60s, soldiers stepped into their newly issued British Army footwear known as Boots DMS. They picked up their weapons, packs, tentage and bedding and trudged their way on a marching competition from Hay-on-Wye to Maesteg - a route that covered 74 miles and many of the peaks of the Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons. Back then, it was known as the Cambrian March - a competition for Territorial Army soldiers keen to show their prowess in fitness and map-reading ability.
The Philippine Army is gradually shifting from internal to territorial and external defense with its programmed acquisition of Indian-Russian designed land-based BraHmos supersonic missiles. Jaime Laude reports in The Philippine Star.
Thailand's Defense Technology Institute has successfully conducted a dynamic test-firing of a domestic prototype of D11A 114mm guided rocket at the Artillery Firing Range, Artillery Center, located at Fort Phaholyothin (Phahonyothin), Lopburi Province, in September 2019.
The “Persian Gulf Air Defense Headquarters” officially started its mission in a ceremony attended by Major General Mousavi on Monday, Oct. 7, FarsNews reports. The center is equipped with the latest homegrown control and surveillance technologies with the capacity to help keep a better watch on the region.
On October 4, 2019, during an official ceremony in Poland, the United States has announced the permanent presence of a U.S. Army Division Forward Headquarters in Poland following an agreement signed by U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Poland President Andrzej Duda in New York City, on September 23, 2019.
Russia will build missile attack early warning stations in the Extreme North by 2022. Another station will be erected in Sevastopol in 2024. President Vladimir Putin said only Russia and the United States possess such stations at present, Gazeta.ru online publication writes.
Elbit Systems announced on Oct. 6 that it was awarded a contract valued at approximately $153 million to supply an army of a country in Southeast Asia with a comprehensive, multi-layered array of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). The contract will be performed over a 22-month period.
Schiebel successfully demonstrated the shipboard integration of its Camcopter S-100 as well as its impressive search and rescue (SAR) capabilities to the Norwegian Coast Guard on board of the KV Svalbard from 16 to 27 September 2019.
Media reports claimed important elements of the latest Russian S-500 air defense system were tested in Syria. The Russian Defense Ministry denied the claims and said there was no need to test the weapon in Syria. Sources of Gazeta.ru online publication also denied the report which claimed the trials exposed specific problems that were rapidly rectified. The very claim means there were no tests.
During a military parade that took place in Tehran on October 3, the Iranian Army unveiled five new domestically-made hardware devices designed and manufactured by the Research and Self-sufficiency Jihad Organization of the Iranian Army.
For several years, General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS) has been a partner of popular NATO Days and the Czech Air Force. This year, the company displayed another version of its ASCOD 2, fitted with a manned turret.
Latvia has decided to relaunch the competition for the purchase of tactical wheeled vehicles that was won by Finnish company Sizu with its GTP 4x4. Indeed, two competitors have lodged a complaint against that victory.
On 1st October, a military parade held in Nicosia, the capital city of Cyprus, to commemorate the 59th anniversary of the country’s independence provided the opportunity to see newly-bought Serbian-made Nora-B52 155 mm/52-calibre 8x8 self-propelled howitzers and BOV M16 Miloš 4x4 armored vehicles.
The Estonian Ministry of Defense will buy six more South-Koran-made Hanwha Techwin K9 Thunder self-propelled howitzers, after purchasing an initial 12 last year.
Belgium has just hosted the 4th Global Special Operations Symposium in Europe. Organized in Brussels by the Global SOF Foundation with, in this case, the assistance of the Belgian Special Operations Regiment, the event has gathered an impressive array of participants, both from the Special Operations world and the international defense industry.
The ZBD-04A, a new generation of tracked armored IFV (Infantry Fighting Vehicle) unveiled by the Chinese army during the military parade for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China that was held on October 1, 2019. The ZBD-04A was developed independently by China, which is the improved model of China's second-generation tracked AIFV after the Type 86 AIFV.
‘Operation Him Vijay’, a military exercise designed to test out Indian army’s offensive capabilities against China has started.
Speaking at the event, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said: “Today, emerging and disruptive technologies are having a profound impact on how the Alliance carries out its core tasks. How we understand, adopt and implement those technologies will largely determine our future security, and NATO will play a key role in driving this change”.
A modernized T-90M tank may become the main combat tank in the Russian Armed Forces, General of the Army Alexey Maslov, a special representative of the UralVagonZavod Corporation (UVZ, an affiliate of Russian State Corporation Rostec) for military-technical cooperation, told TASS.
The Directorate General of Armament (DGA) received this summer the last of the 27 NX70 micro-UAV systems ordered from the company Novadem.
The U.S. administration has cleared the sale of 150 FGM-148 Javelin antitank missiles and two additional missile launchers to Ukraine.
New Chinese-made DF-41 ICBM (InterContinental Ballistic Missile) unveiled for the first time to the public during the Chinese military parade which was held in Beijing on October 1, 2019, to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic.
