Ukraine develops new multi-mission radar
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SE SPC Iskra, the Ukrainian manufacturer of surveillance radar systems, is revealing details of its new multi-mission radar, called the 1L300 Mangust (Mongoose). The Ukrainian company has developed a project for a new multi-mission radar capable detects and classifies all types of aerial threats and generates a real-time Air Situation Picture (ASP). In a recent […]
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Poland has confirmed it will acquire Turkish-made armed drones. “We have signed a contract for the purchase of four sets, that is, 24 aircraft armed with anti-tank missiles,” Poland’s Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on the air of Polish Radio 24, announcing the purchase of Bayraktar TB2 armed drones. The first medium-altitude, long-range tactical unmanned […]
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Elbit Systems of America, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd., announced that its new mobile howitzer has completed the U.S. Army’s mobile 155mm howitzer shoot-off evaluation at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. The company officials confirmed that that Elbit System’s Autonomous Truck Mounted Ordnance System (ATMOS) Iron Sabre mobile howitzer completed the U.S. Army’s […]
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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in the presence of Commander-in-Chief Major General Hossein Salami, unveiled three new pieces of defense hardware developed in Iran. Among them is a new long-range radar with the ability to detect and attack stealth aircraft. The new radar system is called the Quds ( some sources said that the […]
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The Czech Air Force has taken delivery of the latest version of the Airbus C295 medium airlifter on 19 May. According to the Czech Ministry of Defense, on the night of May 19, 2021, the first of two Airbus C295MW military transport aircraft ordered for the Czech Air Force (tail number “0481”, serial number 172) […]
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Just this week, Pakistani General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) visited a Military Test Site in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine and witnessed field tests of various combat vehicles and systems. Chief of Army Staff had indicated strong interest in the test performance of the Ukrainian modern weapon system, among which he […]
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The Slovenian defense ministry last week received its new Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, known popularly as JLTV. The batch of Oshkosh’s newest light tactical vehicles arrived at the Port of Koper on May 11. “Yesterday, new JLTV 4×4 light armored vehicles from Oshkosh arrived at the port of Koper, which Slovenia bought from the United […]
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The U.S. Army announced that last week Paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division, 1st Battalion 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, trained with a prototype of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) during Experimental Demonstration Gateway Exercise 2021 at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. According to an Army statement, the training familiarized the 1-508 Paratroopers with the system […]
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The U.S. Army has released a 30-seconds video that showed some unusual tactics of using Abrams tanks and Bradley combat vehicles. The tweet with video, which includes footage of “sniper tanks”, shows Abrams tank and Bradley fighting vehicle, which are hiding in the folds of the terrain and dense overgrowth. Thanks to camouflage, combat vehicles […]
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The U.S. Army has awarded the US21 a 3-year contract to deliver Ukrainian-made commercial heavy-duty vehicles. The contract award from U.S. Army Contracting Command enables the company to supply commercial Heavy-Duty Vehicles, which includes Flatbed Trucks, Personnel Carriers, Water Trucks, Fuel Trucks and spare parts for all variants to meet Foreign Military Sales requirements worldwide. […]
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