Today at the International Armoured Vehicles Conference in London, BAE Systems presented the next phase of development for the CV90 Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) with the launch of the new CV90 MkIV.
This fifth generation of the company’s combat-proven IFV family...
- The Army selected Rafael Trophy APS to be installed and characterized on the Army Abrams M1A2 and Marine Corps M1A1 tanks. The Trophy system engages incoming threats with a kinetic projectile intended to destroy the threat or cause early initiation. The Abrams base armor is expected to be able to absorb threat residuals. The...
HUDSON, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems an $8 million contract to develop modernized precision-guidance kits that ensure the accuracy of 155-millimeter artillery munitions. These kits enable munitions to make in-flight course corrections even in GPS-jammed environments....
In order to tackle growing cyber threats from around the globe, the Army is beginning to integrate cyber, electronic warfare, signals intelligence and military intelligence operations, service officials have recently said.
“You need all of those to come together if you’re really going to deliver the effects that you need,” said Maj. Gen. John...
In many discussions today it is very easy to notice that many people refer to different MBTs as being of a certain generation, and often referring to just one tank as being of several generations. This became most apparent when the T-14 tank of the Armata universal ground combat vehicle family was publicly shown in May 2015, in the annual...
Israel's Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has instructed the military to establish a new force of ground-to-ground missiles with a range of up to 300 kilometers, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported
Oshkosh Defense announced today that U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC) has awarded Oshkosh Defense a firm fixed price requirements contract spanning up to seven ordering years for the Family of...
North Korea has unveiled new mobile short-range ballistic missile system for the first time during low-key military parade, a day ahead of the opening of the Winter Olympics in South...
Belarus is testing an updated variant of the Polonez multiple launch rocket system (MLRS), Polonez-M (M stands for Upgraded, Modernizirovanny), with a firing range of 299 km, according to the Military-Industrial Complex.VPK.Belarus magazine issued by Belarus' State Military-Industrial Committee (Goskomvoenprom, GKVP)...
WASHINGTON — The Army’s fiscal year 2019 budget request will grow by roughly 8 percent over last year’s request to fill readiness gaps, addressing both capacity and capability holes which must be filled to carry...
Nexter and Texelis are delighted at today's confirmation by Florence Parly, Minister of Armies, for the attribution of the supply of Lightweight Multi-Role Armoured Vehicles (VBMR Véhicules Blindés Multi-Rôles) for the French Army. The contract went through the “Direction Générale de l’Armement” (DGA) in the presence of Joël Barre, National...
WASHINGTON — The Army’s $182 billion fiscal year 2019 budget request is a major funding boost over recent years and seeks to continue readiness recovery and...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is going to assess the possibility of putting a 50-kilowatt laser onto its short-range air defense, or SHORAD, objective solution in less than five years, according to the service’s fiscal 2019 budget...