Rheinmetall Canada has unveiled a new package for its family of Mission Master Robot vehicles. Mission Master is an eight wheeled modular platform that can be equipped for a range… Continue reading "A Remote Controlled Ambulance?"
A US Army 19th Special Forces Group Oshkosh M-ATV was disabled by a crude improvised explosive device (IED) earlier this month near the tiny village of Quallam, Niger some 85… Continue reading "Green Beret M-ATV struck by IED in Niger"
In June 2019, Russia confirmed that it would order the BMP-1AM upgrade for its fleet of obsolete BMP-1 Infantry Fighting Vehicles. The BMP-1 has been largely ignored by the Russian… Continue reading "Russia Is Modernizing the BMP-1"
The Russian Army has taken receipt of circa 40 of the latest T-80 main battle tank upgrade as part of aprocurement of some 400 new and modernized armoured fighting vehicles… Continue reading "Russia Receives Latest T-80BVM Variant"
Testing of four different Active Protection Systems (APS) for the US Army’s Stryker family of infantry combat vehicles has proven less than fruitful with none of the identified systems likely… Continue reading "No Active Protection System for Stryker"
Taiwan confirmed its hopes to procure modern tanks and missiles from the US in a deal valued at around 2 billion dollars, sparking an angry reaction from mainland China.
The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) unveiled on 11 June details of the Hunter armored fighting vehicle (AFV) as it was commissioned into service by Minister of Defense Ng Eng Hen… Continue reading "Singapore Unveils and Commissions Hunter, its First Fully-Digital Armored Fighting Vehicle"
After the end of the cold war, tank plants across Eastern Europe began competing to sell upgraded T-72s to customers around the world. However, only a few of these upgrades… Continue reading "In Profile: Poland’s PT-91"
Belgium’s FN Herstal and Estonia’s Milrem Robotics deployed the THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) equipped with deFNder Medium Remote Weapon Station in exercise Spring Storm 2019. Spring Storm is Estonia’s… Continue reading "FN Herstal and Milrem Robotics Deploy Unmanned Weaponized Vehicle at Estonian Military Exercise"
The Russian Uran-9, produced by Kalashnikov Concern, was conceived as an armed UGV or unmanned ground vehicle. The Uran-9 was designed to conduct infantry fire support tasks and armed reconnaissance… Continue reading "Russia’s Killer UGV “Not Able to Perform the Assigned Tasks”"