GLSDB

Guided Rockets Advance

Saab has teamed with Boeing to create a new battlefield precision strike weapon for low intensity operations; the Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB)....
fcas

FCAS Developments

During Airbus Defence and Space’s June 2016 trade media briefing, the company revealed tantalizing glimpses of a proposed new European/Multi-national Future Combat Air System...
Ukrspecexport

Ukrspecexport Bullish on Future Prospects

The Director General of Ukraine’s state-owned defence export company Ukrspecexport Pavel Bukin, says that the firm has enjoyed a healthy order book in 2014/15,...
Patria AMV

Patria Purchases

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be receiving additional eight-wheel drive AMVs (Armoured Modular Vehicles) under a contract awarded to Patria announced on 28...
BLM Stryker L

Crossing the Gap

Light armoured units maintain their operational advantage though superior manoeuvre and must stay ahead of their opponent’s ability to react. Unfordable rivers, dry trenches...
Bell V-280

Tilting with Valour

Bell Helicopter is on course to perform the first flight of its V-280 Valour tilt-rotor by September 2017, the company tells Armada. Bell Helicopters under contract...
colombian_usv

100 Percent Colombian

The Armada Nacional de la República de Colombia (Colombian Navy) showed for the first time at the Expodefensa defence exhibition in Colombia, November 2015,...
M1126-Stryker

Stryking Harder

M1126 Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle’s are getting bigger teeth. The US Army awarded a $75 million contract to General Dynamics Land Systems (GD) for...
Brazilian-AAV

More Amphibians for Brazil

The Brazilian Marines double their ship-to-shore capability with the December 2015 contract to BAE Systems for 23 AAV-7A1RAM/RS Armoured Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAVs). This complements...

Aegean Tensions

It was revealed that on 9 December 2015, two Türk Hava Kuvvetleri (TAF/Turkish Air Force) General Dynamics/Lockheed Martin F-16C multi-role combat aircrafts were placed under radar...

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