The Slovenian Armed Forces presented Tuesday the first of the 135 armoured personnel carriers that it has bought from Finnish contractor Patria. The vehicle will undergo a four-week validation test before the military will officially take over the vehicle.

Krauss-Maffei Wegmann’s Leopard 2 has set world standards in combat tanks. A total of sixteen countries, mostly in Europe, have opted for this amazing combination of fire power, armour and mobility. No other western combat tank on the world market

WASHINGTON -- ICx Technologies, a developer of advanced sensor technologies for homeland security, force protection and commercial applications, announced today that it has been awarded a system-engineering, analysis and integration contract by the U.S. Army Research and Development Engineering Command

WARRENVILLE, Ill. -- Navistar International Corporation Navistar Defense has begun to produce the International MaxxPro Dash at the company’s West Point, Miss., plant with delivery of 822 units to be completed by February 2009. Full production is scheduled to begin

OSHKOSH, Wis. -- Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation, has been awarded a new contract valued at more than $180 million from the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command. The contract includes more than 1,500 reducible-height armor kits to be

South Africa’s Denel Group showed a range of new defence products and systems for the first time at Africa Aerospace & Defence (AAD2008) that took place in Cape Town last week.

YORK, Pa. -- BAE Systems, under a $742 million U.S. Army contract, will remanufacture more than 300 Bradley vehicles with additional armor to protect soldiers.

YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. -- The Future Combat Systems program successfully fired the first artillery projectile from the manned ground vehicle non-line-of-sight cannon prototype.

WASHINGTON --- Last week, the US Army issued Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS a contract valued at $15 million for additional PROTECTOR Remote Weapon Stations (RWSs) to be integrated into the Vanguard Sniper Defense System and manufactured in Johnstown, PA.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- BAE Systems has launched the newest version of its acclaimed RG series of mine resistant personnel carrier vehicle, the RG31 Mk6E, which will make its debut at the African Aerospace & Defence 2008 show in

By 2018 Poland will spend 60 billion zlotys (roughly 24.6 billion U.S. dollars) to modernize its armed forces, Defense Minister Bogdan Klich said Monday.

A £60million contract to deliver the new generation of Mastiff vehicles - the Mastiff 2 - has been announced by UK Defence Secretary Des Browne on a visit to NP Aerospace.

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. -- The U.S. Army TACOM Lifecycle Management Command has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, a $34 million delivery order for 30 M1A1 Abrams Integrated Management (AIM) main battle tanks. The contract

VIENNA, Austria -- General Dynamics Santa Barbara Sistemas has been awarded a 64.6 million Euro ($102 million) contract by the Spanish Government to supply RG-31 Mk5E mine protected vehicles for the Army. General Dynamics Santa Barbara Sistemas is one of

The Archer artillery system will soon be in service. The government has made a decision on continued development and procurement of this modified Howitzer 77B.

WARRENVILLE, Ill. -- The U.S. Marine Corps today awarded Navistar Defense, LLC., a contract worth more than $752 million to produce a lighter, smaller and more mobile variant of its International® MaxxPro™ Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) family of vehicles.

YORK, Pennsylvania -- BAE Systems has received a $43.5 million order from the U.S. Marine Corps for 40 RG33 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles: 36 Special Operations Command (SOCOM) variants, two RG33 MRAP Category II 6x6s, and two Category

The Undersecretariat for the Defence Industries of Turkey (SSM) has contracted Otokar with the designing of first National Main Battle Tank of Turkey. The signing ceremony for the ALTAY Project was realised at Otokar plant.

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. - The U.S. Army TACOM Lifecycle Management Command has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, a contract for the production of 62 Stryker Mobile Gun System (MGS) variant vehicles.

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. The U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, a $20.9 million contract for Abrams Tank Systems Technical Support (STS).