Thursday 12 December, 2024

Land Platforms

General Dynamics Land Systems awarded contract for additional M10 Booker Combat Vehicles

The US Army has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems a contract valued at USD 322.7 million to proceed with...

Oshkosh awarded US Army contract for Heavy Tactical Vehicles

Oshkosh Defense has announced that the US Army Contracting Command – Detroit Arsenal (ACC-DTA) has awarded the company a...

Elbit Systems to supply Iron Fist APS to BAE Systems for European customer

Elbit Systems announced today that it has been awarded a contract worth approximately USD 130 million to supply Iron...

First locally produced Patria 6×6 APC delivered to Latvian armed forces

Defence Partnership Latvia, a Patria majority-owned joint venture, handed over the first Latvian-made Patria 6x6 armoured personnel carrier (APC)...

Czech Republic to receive additional Leopard 2A4 tanks

The Czech Republic is set to acquire 14 more Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks (MBT) and one Büffel 3...

Hungary takes delivery of first domestically produced Lynx IFV

Rheinmetall has handed over the first KF41 Lynx infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) produced at the company's Zalaegerszeg site in...

Australia orders additional Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicles

Australia's Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy announced an AUD 45 million (USD 30 million) contract between the Australian...

Spain delivers more Leopard 2A4 tanks to Ukraine

The Spanish Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced that it has dispatched a fresh shipment of weapons and military...

US Army begins operational evaluation of the M10 Booker

The US 82nd Airborne Division based at Fort Liberty, North Carolina has begun the initial operational test and evaluation...

Poland to procure additional Rosomak armoured fighting vehicles

The Polish Armament Agency has signed a contract with a consortium led by Huta Stalowa Wola S.A., along with...

Brazilian Army to receive 420 Light Multirole Vehicles

Brazil's Army Manufacturing Directorate has signed a contract with IDV for the supply of 420 LMV-BR 2 (Light Multirole...

Leonardo partners with Rheinmetall to develop next-generation land defence systems

Leonardo and Rheinmetall have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a new 50:50 joint venture aimed at...

Bundeswehr orders 1,515 additional military trucks from Rheinmetall

Rheinmetall has received another order from the Bundeswehr for 1,515 logistic vehicles, including 265 protected swap-body systems. This order...

Rheinmetall to supply 8×8 trucks for Swedish Archer artillery systems

Rheinmetall has been contracted by BAE Systems Bofors to deliver 48 all-terrain HX Cab Chassis as carriers for the...

Sweden orders new CV90 IFVs

BAE Systems has signed a contract with the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration (FMV) for new CV9035 MkIIIC infantry fighting...

Elbit Systems to supply Crossbow Unmanned Turreted Mortar Systems for European customer

Elbit Systems announced on 8 May that it has been awarded a contract to supply the Crossbow Unmanned Turreted...

British Army to acquire L3Harris T4 EOD robots

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded L3Harris Technologies an $18 million contract to provide the British Army...

Elbit Systems to supply Iron Fist APS for US Army Bradley IFVs

Elbit Systems Ltd has announced that it has been awarded an initial contract worth approximately $37 million to supply...

Finnish Defence Forces to procure Patria 6×6 heavy APCs

The Finnish Defence Forces will purchase Patria 6x6 heavy armoured personnel carriers (APC) from Patria within the Common Armoured...

Challenger 3 conducts live firings

The first live firings of the British Army’s future Challenger 3 main battle tank (MBT) have taken place in...

DE&S signs contract to supply HET capability for the British Army

The UK Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) announced on 23 April that it has signed a £80 million interim...

GDELS unveils Piranha Heavy Mission Carrier

General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS) has unveiled the 10x10 Piranha Heavy Mission Carrier (HMC), the latest variant in...

Latest Challenger 3 prototype rolls off production line

The latest of eight Challenger 3 main battle tank (MBT) prototypes has been completed at the Rheinmetall BAE Systems...

BAE Systems secures contract to upgrade Danish CV90 fleet

BAE Systems has signed a contract with the Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO) to upgrade...

Sweden orders 321 armoured vehicles from Patria

The Swedish Defence Procurement Agency (FMV) has signed a contract worth around 470 million euros with Finnish defence company Patria...

Ajax Armoured Fighting Vehicle in successful cold weather trials

The UK's Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) Ajax delivery team working with the British Army's Household Cavalry Regiment (HCR)...

BAE Systems delivers new AMPV prototype to US Army

BAE Systems has delivered an Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) Turreted Mortar prototype to the US Army. The prototype features...

Estonia takes delivery of Blue Spear anti-ship missile system

The Estonian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has announced the arrival of the new Blue Spear anti-ship missile system manufactured...

US Marines take delivery of first ACV-30

BAE Systems announced on 1 February that the company had delivered the first production representative test vehicle (PRTV) of...

Babcock and Supacat begin Jackal 3 production

Babcock International Group and Supacat have officially launched the production of 70 High Mobility Transporter (HMT) Jackal 3s for...

General Dynamics completes testing of USMC future ARV

General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) announced on 23 January that it had completed testing of its Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle...

Challenger 3 tank to begin trials in coming weeks

The British Army’s next main battle tank (MBT) will reach a major milestone with the first pre-production Challenger 3...

BAE Systems AMPV successfully fires C-UAS during live demonstration

BAE Systems has conducted a successful live fire demonstration of its Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS)...

UK Boxer begins verification and validation trials

The UK's Boxer 8x8 Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV) programme has entered formal customer Verification and Validation trials this month...

BAE Systems delivers first ACV command vehicle to US Marines

BAE Systems has delivered the first Amphibious Combat Vehicle Command and Control (ACV-C) variant to the US Marine Corps....

Phase one of Lithuania’s Boxer IFV procurement completed

The Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania announced that the first phase of its procurement of Boxer infantry fighting...

Polish Army takes delivery of additional Abrams tanks

The Polish Armament Agency announced on 8 January that it had received a shipment of 29 additional M1A1 Abrams...

Finland to procure additional Patria 6×6 armoured vehicles

The Finnish Defence Forces have purchased more Patria 6x6 armoured vehicles by exercising the additional purchase option that was...

Rheinmetall builds first Lynx infantry fighting vehicle for Hungary

The first Lynx infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) to be built by Rheinmetall in Hungary has rolled off the assembly line...

RMMV wins follow-up order to supply trucks to Austrian Army

Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles (RMMV) has secured another significant sales success in Austria by winning a tender to supply...

Denmark, Sweden to supply CV90 IFVs to Ukraine

The Danish government announced on Monday that the country will join Sweden’s donation of CV90 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs)...

Hungary and Rheinmetall partner to produce Panther KF51 tank

The government of Hungary and German defence company Rheinmetall have partnered to produce the Panther KF51 main battle tank...

US Marine Corps places order for more Amphibious Combat Vehicles

BAE Systems has been awarded a $211 million firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded contract by the US Marine...

Hungary takes delivery of first Leopard 2A7HU MBT

Hungarian Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky announced that the first of 44 Leopard 2A7HU main battle tanks (MBTs) for the...

Oshkosh receives JLTV order from Israel

Oshkosh Defense announced that the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) has placed orders for Oshkosh Joint Light Tactical Vehicles...

Ukraine to receive Bozena-4 demining systems from Slovakia

Slovakia has announced that it will finance the production of two Bozena-4 demining systems for Ukraine as part of...

Rheinmetall to deliver Leopard 1 tanks to Ukraine

The Ukrainian government has awarded Rheinmetall a contract to supply Leopard 1 systems, which includes 25 main battle tanks...

Oshkosh receives US Army order for Joint Light Tactical Vehicles

Oshkosh Defense announced that the U.S. Army Contracting Command - Detroit Arsenal has placed an order for Oshkosh Defense...

Otokar to supply ARMA 6×6 vehicles to Estonia

The Estonian Centre for Defence Investment (ECDI) has awarded Otokar, a global land systems manufacturer from Turkey, a contract...