Leidos, Paramount Group USA and Vertex Aerospace have announced a teaming agreement to offer the Bronco II light attack aircraft to the United States Special Operations Command’s Armed Overwatch program.… Continue reading "Leidos Leads New Bronco II SOCOM Armed Overwatch Bid"
US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) have posted a request for information (RFI) to industry for their next generation replacement for the Pandur I based Armored Ground Mobility System (AGMS). The… Continue reading "SOCOM Looking for new Joint Armored Ground Mobility System"
US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) are looking to order some 75 ‘armed overwatch’ light attack aircraft, a capability that the command has been requesting for a number of years. SOCOM… Continue reading "SOCOM Wants ‘Armed Overwatch’ Light Attack Props"
The Armed Forces of Djibouti have taken receipt of 54 up-armoured HMMWVs (High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles) destined for the Army’s RIB or Rapid Intervention Brigade. The HMMWVs are one… Continue reading "Djibouti Receives US HMMWVs"
US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) have launched a research programchallenging industry to develop a handheld sensor that can be employed to ‘see-through’ walls and intervening obstacles. Rather than science-fiction’s X-Ray… Continue reading "USSOCOM Seeks Technology to ‘See-Through’ Walls"
US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has awarded an initial $86 million USD full-rate production order to L3Harris Technologiesfor their AN/PRC-163 Falcon IV tactical radios under USSOCOM’s Next Generation Tactical Communications… Continue reading "USSOCOM Orders L3Harris AN/PRC-163 Tactical Radios"
UVision, maker of the Hero series of loitering munitions, has announced the opening of a US based subsidiary. This new venture has been named, rather appropriately, UVision USA, and is… Continue reading "Israeli UVision Lands with a Boom at AUSA 2019"
Amidst the controversy of this recent events in Syria, a piece of footage recorded by a journalist for Germany’s Der Spiegel, Alexandra Rojkov, emerged on Twitter. It showed in excellent… Continue reading "Secretive Delta Force Pandur APCs Seen in Syria"
Sarcos Robotics has published a press release announcing that the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has purchased pre-production versions of the company’s Guardian XO exoskeletons. The number of ordered units… Continue reading "US SOCOM Orders SARCOS Robotics Guardian XO Exoskeletons"
The United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has published a solicitation for development of lightweight machine gun ammunition. The solicitation was published on the website of a US government program… Continue reading "US SOCOM Wants Lightweight Belt-Fed Machine Gun Ammunition"