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via Sputnik Russian troops used the BTR-82As armored personnel carriers for the first time during drills in Tajikistan, an aid to the commander of Russia's Central Military District said...

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Note:  Still no discussion or path laid out for the future of Tanks in the Marine Corps.  Quite honestly I'm surprised they still exist.  The biggest factor in all this is probably the...

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via Medium We should be asking ourselves what our Archduke Ferdinand moment will be. How will an apparently small event trigger another period of massive destruction. We see Brexit, Trump, Putin in...

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A final instalment of 25 Cheetah self-propelled anti-aircraft guns (SPAAGs) has now arrived in Jordan. Decommissioned by the Armed Forces of the Netherlands in 2006, the Cheetah (Gepard in German service) consists of a modified Leopard 1 tank hull armed with twin 35 mm Rheinmetall Air Defence

China rolled out a new amphibious aircraft from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) production line in Zhuhai on 23 July, state media announced. With a wing span of 38.8 m and a length of 37 m, the four-turboprop AG600 is the largest 'flying boat' to have been built by China. The

The VH-92A Presidential Helicopter Replacement Program recently passed its Critical Design Review (CDR), Lockheed Martin announced on 25 July. The milestone means that the programme to replace the presidential fleet of ageing Sikorsky VH-3D (Sea King) and VH-60N (Black hawk) helicopters with the

TWO people were killed when Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen militants attacked an army base in the town of Adale in Somalia's Shabeellaha Dhexe region on 24 July, Goobjoog reported. The attack reportedly involved the initial detonation of an explosive device near the base before militants with

The Argentine Ministry of Defence (MoD) is evaluating the purchase of a new medium transport aircraft to replace the Fokker F27 Friendships of the Argentine Air Force, the last operational example of which is to be retired this year. According to Walter Ceballos, the MoD's logistics and emergencies

Australia's Productivity Commission - the government's independent research and advisory body - has questioned the industrial efficiency of building the Royal Australian Navy's (RAN's) next-generation submarines in Australia. In its annual Trade and Assistance Review , published on 25 July, the

Key Points Flight trials on UK Typhoon IPA 6 already under way Typhoon firing trials scheduled for the first quarter of 2017 Following successful completion of a series of delayed Operational Evaluation trials in February 2016, the UK Royal Air Force has finally declared an Initial Operating

EVENT Mombasa's county commissioner reported to local media on 24 July that militants affiliated with Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabaab) had planned to launch a co-ordinated vehicle-borne explosive device (VBIED) and small-arms assault against the Likoni ferry terminal in the Kenyan

AT LEAST 80 people were killed and 230 others were wounded when at least two suicide bombers detonated their explosives among a gathering of Shia Muslim Hazara protesters in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on 23 July, Al-Jazeera reported. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack through

Lockheed Martin has begun work on the mid-life upgrade (MLU) of Greece's P-3B Orion maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) fleet, the manufacturer announced on 25 July. The launch of the effort to modernise and refurbish four of the five P-3B aircraft that are owned jointly by the Hellenic Air Force and

The Israeli company Elbit Systems is close to a deal to buy Mectron from Odebrecht Defesa e Tecnologia (ODT) for a total of about USD50 million, sources told IHS Jane's . According to the Brazilian sources, the purchase could be through AEL, which is the local subsidiary of Elbit Systems. Mectron

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), India's state-owned aerospace company, is reportedly close to finalising a deal to take over a company in Goa in order to expand its capacity to enable it to undertake helicopter maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services. The Times of India newspaper

AN IMPROVISED explosive device (IED), emplaced on the vehicle of the chairman of the Somali Ulema Council - identified as Sheih Yusuf Ali Aynte, detonated in the Mecca al-Mukaramah road in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on 23 July, Hiiraan reported. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the

The Indian Army (IA) has deployed 120 T-72M1 main battle tanks (MBTs) to the northern Himalayan region of Ladakh along a portion of the 4,057 km Line of Actual Control (LoAC): the country's disputed Himalayan border with China. China and India went to war in 1962 over this un-demarcated mountainous

Airbus Defence and Space (DS) has said India's Ministry of Defence (MoD) terminated in late June the six-year-old USD2 billion tender for six multi-role tanker transport (MRTT) aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF), for which the company's A330 MRTT had been shortlisted. "We have been

The Indonesian Navy (Tentara Nasional Indonesia - Angkatan Laut, or TNI-AL) has commissioned a PC-43 class patrol vessel into its Western Fleet (KOARMABAR), the service's office of public affairs confirmed with IHS Jane's on 26 July. The vessel, KRI Cakalang (852), was commissioned on 20 July in

ACCORDING to the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an unspecified number of civilians and former militants were captured when Islamic State militants raided several residences in the villages of Sabha and Dahleh in Syria's Deir ez Zour governorate on 21 July. Casualty figures