The planned warrior upgrade comes just two years before the vehicle is scheduled to be replaced in the British Army by the Boxer 8×8 MIV.
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On March 31, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a new Russian foreign policy concept that hailed the ongoing “formation of a more equitable multipolar world order.” The concept highlighted Moscow’s intent to strengthen its ties with the non-West, in particular “developing full-scale and trusting cooperation” with Iran and other states discontented with Western policies toward their countries. While the Russian-Iranian relationship has been strengthening for years, this showed that the alliance was deepening, especially as a result of the war in Ukraine.
Department of Defense leaders, technology developers, self-proclaimed innovators, and many others are obsessed with the apparent lack of adoption and slow speed of integrating new technology into the military. There are many reasons that Defense Department “innovators” can point to for this apparent lack of adoption, ranging from the budget process to how the military sets requirements for new weapons developments to a whole host of bureaucratic and cultural challenges embedded in the acquisition process.
On this sneak-peak episode of the Russia Contingency, Aaron sat down with Mike Kofman to discuss the state of the Ukrainian military’s offensive, the different axes of advance and what the offensive may be able to tell observers about the direction of the conflict. Listeners will get to hear the first 20 minutes of the conversation. To hear the rest, which examined the recent debates in Russia about nuclear weapons use and looked back at Yevgeny Prighozin’s mutiny, please consider becoming a War on the Rocks member.
MilDef’s products include rugged laptops. (MilDef)
MilDef’s three recent acquisitions have made the Sweden-based information technology (IT) provider a more well-rounded supplier to its military customers, according to company officials.
MilDef, which was traditionally focused on manufacturing hardware, broadened its portfolio by purchasing Norwegian software business Sysint and Swedish integration services provider Defcon Solutions in 2021.
Lockheed Martin completed another milestone in its efforts to integrate the PAC-3 missile with Aegis. (Lockheed Martin)
Lockheed Martin’s Patriot Advanced Capability – 3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptor successfully communicated with the AN/SPY-1 radar, a key component in the Aegis Weapon System, for the first time, the company confirmed on 10 July.
An artist’s impression of the S-80 submarine that L&T and Navantia have offered for India’s P-75(I). (Navantia)
Indian engineering firm Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has formed a teaming arrangement with Spanish shipbuilder Navantia to offer the latter’s S-80 submarine design for India’s Project-75 (India) or P-75(I) programme.
The Netherlands ordered three Improved Ribbon Bridge systems from GDELS – Bridge Systems on 30 June. (GDELS)
The Netherlands signed a contract for three new bridging systems with General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS) – Bridge Systems on 30 June, the Dutch Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on its website the same day. A GDELS spokesperson told
Janes
on 5 July that the systems are Improved Ribbon Bridges (IRBs) and will be produced in Kaiserslautern, southwestern Germany, but he declined to give the contract value.
The new BAM-IS is intended to replace the Spanish Navy’s ageing salvage and rescue ship
Neptuno
(pictured).
(Spanish Navy)
Navantia staged a steel-cutting ceremony for the Spanish Navy’s new submarine rescue ship (Buque de Acción Marítima Intervención Subacuática: BAM-IS), to be named
Poseidon
, at its yard in Puerto Real on the south coast of the Bay of Cádiz on 3 July.
The new vessel is based on the Spanish Navy’s Meteoro-class BAM offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) but adapted for underwater rescue operations.
The White House finally made a historic decision and allocated in a new package of military aid to Ukraine, announced on July 7, 2023, in particular cluster 155-mm projectiles of the DPICM type.
At the same time, it seems that they have finally given up the concept that it is dangerous to give some kind of weapon to Ukraine, which, in particular, adds some optimism regarding the prospects for ATACMS for the Armed Forces.