In December 2021, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann signed a contract for the delivery of the PROTECTOR RS4, the world’s most fielded Remote Weapon System, for the German Joint Fire Support Team, schwer (JFSTsw) program. This is the first contract Kongsberg has signed with KMW and the second PROTECTOR RS4 contract for the German Army. The new...
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According to information published by the “Taiwan News” website on January 19, 2022, the Taiwanese army has confirmed an order for the purchase of the M136 Volcano Vehicle-Launched Scatterable Mine System from the United States. Taiwan has been seeking to purchase the M136 Volcano ground vehicle mine dispensing system from the US that enables the quick delivery...
According to information published by the Philippine News Agency on January 21, 2022, the Philippine Army will receive Indian-made Brahmos medium-range ramjet supersonic cruise missiles within the third horizon of the Revised Armed Forces of the Philippines Modernization Program (RAFPMP). Citing the Philippine News Agency, the Philippine armed forces plans to acquire two...
According to information published by the French defense website “Opex 360”, the French Ministry of Defense announces the first delivery of 20 Jaguar EBRC 6×6 armored vehicles, to the “1er Régiment de Chasseurs d’Afrique”, a cavalry regiment of the French army. The Jaguar EBRC is the latest generation of 6×6 Reconnaissance and Combat...
According to information published by the “Daily Sabah” website on January 20, 2022, the Turkish-made HISAR-O+ air defense missile system was delivered to the Turkish army. The HISAR-O+ is a new generation of air defense missile systems fully developed and designed in Turkey by the companies Aselsan and Roketsan. On January 4, 2022, Army Recognition has reported...
The Danish Ministry of Defence’s Materiel and Procurement Agency has signed a new agreement on the supply of mobile sensor systems to the Armed Forces. A product that has been developed through an international industrial collaboration. On 13 January, the head of FMI, Lieutenant General Kim Jesper Jørgensen, signed a seven-year framework agreement with the Danish...
DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program is picking up speed after three teams were selected to go to the starting line last October. The program is focused on advancing off-road autonomy of combat vehicles and seeks to demonstrate the ability of these platforms to travel at speeds that maintain pace with manned combat vehicles...
According to information released by the U.S. Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency (MDA), on January 18, 2022, the Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) of the Directorate of the Defense Research and Development (DDR&D) at Israel’s Ministry of Defense, together with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Israeli Defense Forces, conducted a successful...
According to information published on January 20, 2022, The international integrated technology group Rheinmetall and Europe’s leading developer of robotics and autonomous systems Milrem Robotics deployed for the first time the Rapid Obscuring System (ROSY) smoke screen launcher on the Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) THeMIS. The ROSY was integrated onto the THeMIS...
According to information published on January 17, 2022, the Italian Iveco – Oto Melara Consortium (CIO) announces the signing of a contract to supply 14 Mortar Carrier VBMs, 26 Command Post VBMs (13 in Tactical Unit and 13 in Command Unit version), along with six “10×10” rescue and recovery vehicles to the Italian army. Source Article IVECO-Oto Melara:...