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Indonesia’s order covers 104 Leopard 2 tanks, 50 Marder 1A2 infantry fighting vehicles, 4 Armored Recovery Vehicles to tow tanks out of trouble, 3 mobile bridge-layers, and 3 AEV armored engineering vehicles. The IFVs are from German Army stocks, and reports suggest that the tanks wil...
May 8/13: New agreement. This buy is certainly taking a very long time. Turkey’s SSM procurement agency signs a revised agreement with Alenia Aermacchi. They’ve amended the contract for 10 ATR-72-500 ASW planes to use the in-production ATR-72-600 instead, and dropped it to 8 planes: 2...
“The claim that Gripen does not fulfil the operational requirements required by the Norwegian air force is important to understand. It also turns out to be founded on simulations previously unknown to us. To our understanding those simulations must be based on incomplete performance i...
The AIM-9X is the USA’s newest short-range air-to-air missile, using an advanced array seeker that widens the missile’s “boresight” cone, and allows a TV-like “imaging infrared” picture that’s much harder to fool with decoys. The missile’s maneuvering fins are smaller than previous Si...
Rapid Fire Dec. 24, 2012: Merry Christmas! Dec 23, 2012 20:12 EST Related Stories: DID site Survivable Laser-guided Expeditionary Integrated Gift Handling system (click to view full) Today isn’t really a publishing day, but the Eurofighter articles below provide further updates on Fri...
The Emirate is a small country, but its does need some flyable helicopters, and could benefit by improving its maritime overwatch capabilities. Iran’s military, with its fleets of small boats and mines, is coupled with a dual internal threat of subversion and terrorism. In both cases,...
Civil IL-76TD-90VD (click to view full) Russia is reported to have just over 115 IL-76 medium-heavy strategic transport planes, but they’re leftovers from the Soviet era. On Oct 1/12 they unveiled the modernized “IL-476” variant, and within days Russia’s Defense Ministry had signed a ...
iRobot’s lineup is also changing. Packbot EOD systems are being joined by “Fido ICx” versions with integrated explosives sniffing capabilities and HAZMAT capabilities of their own. The US Army’s Edgewood Chemical Biological Center has developed a dedicated HAZMAT version. Packbot Expl...
