The UK’s Challenger 3 main battle tank program is progressing as another prototype tank has been delivered by RBSL. At least eight prototype Challenger 3s have been delivered. The UK… Continue reading "UK Now Has 8 Challenger 3 Prototypes"
The pool of customers for the Leopard 2 tanks in Europe is steadily growing. Besides Hungary and Italy, which will open a production line for its order of over 100… Continue reading "Czechia Seeking To Obtain 76 Leopard 2A8 MBTs"
The Italian Ministry of Defense has sent an official request for securing the financing for the domestic production line of the newest Leopard 2A8-IT. The Main Battle Tank built under… Continue reading "Italy To Manufacture Leopard 2A8 Main Battle Tanks"
Israel’s Defense Forces and the Israeli defense ministry have announced the delivery of the first operational Merkava 4 Barak (Lightning) main battle tanks, with the 52nd Armored Battalion of the… Continue reading "Israel’s Defense Forces Receive First Operational Merkava Barak Tanks"
The UK’s Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the Challenger 3 main battle tank program is set to advance to the prototype stage with its Critical Design Review completed ahead… Continue reading "UK’s Challenger 3 Advances to Prototype Stage"
Welcome to Overt Defense’s Weekend Briefing where we round up the week’s most exciting and important defense news. In this weekend’s issue topics including the second hypersonic ARRW booster test,… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (18-22 July)"
The expansion of Hyundai-Rotem into the foreign markets is significant. The Korean company is particularly interested in selling its K2 Main Battle Tank to two European nations – Poland and… Continue reading "South Korea’s K2NO MBT Undertakes Tests In Norway"
Welcome back to the Weekend Briefing, where we round up the week’s most interesting and important defence news and comment. This week we have closely followed developments in Ethiopia, a… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (8-12 November)"
The Leopard 2, one of the most prominent Main Battle Tanks (or MBTs) of the Cold War was introduced back in the early 1980s. Since then it has become a… Continue reading "The Future of the Leopard 2"
This week at Overt Defense we have covered a host of stories from around the world ranging from the end of the Belgian manhunt for a reservist who stole a… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (21 – 25 June)"