If procurement of main battle tanks (MBTs) in NATO and certain other countries is any indication, the era of MBTs being the bulwark of land forces may be over. Tanks seem to be losing the strategic advantage to UAVs, and force projection advantage to lighter and more agile armoured vehicles
The month long UN Arms Trade negotiations to regulate the $60 billion arms trade industry has failed after the world's biggest arms exporters, the United States and Russia failed to reach a decision. U
The Pentagon today said it has planned to sell 60 Patriot missiles worth $4.2 billion to Kuwait in an effort to enhance its defenses
The U.S Marine Corp have inducted 12 MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft to be stationed aboard Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa, Japan, as part of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 265 (HMM-265)
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General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics (GD), has been awarded a contract to provide supply chain management services to the U.S
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Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has received a contract valued at US$183 Million to service M250 engines, which power the US Army’s fleet of OH-58D Kiowa Warrior scout helicopters. The contract, to support 500 M250 engines on more than 300 aircraft, begins in July 2012 for a year, and the Army has options to extend the contract for four additional years
The Norwegian Army will get new and upgraded armored vehicles for about ten billion kroner. “A huge boost for the Army,” said Defense Minister Espen Barth Eide
Two of the biggest names in defense have announced a strategic partnership to market high mobility armoured wheeled vehicles. ST Kinetics and Paramount Group have agreed to pool their expertise to jointly market, manufacture and support a family of protected wheeled vehicles