Egyptian naval special forces display weapons that include an Akeron MP to a Qatari delegation at their base in Abu Qir. (Egyptian Ministry of Defense)
An Egyptian naval special forces unit is the first confirmed export customer for the MBDA Akeron MP anti-tank guided missile system, a video released by the Egyptian Ministry of Defense on 18 March revealed.
Author: Michael
Around 1,000 personnel and 270 vehicles from the British and Canadian armed forces have completed a six-week-long training package, called Exercise Wessex Storm.
The exercise was conducted in the Salisbury Plain Training Area in Wiltshire, south-west England.
Wessex Storm is a routine validation exercise, which continues throughout a year to prepare the participating units for undertaking future deployments under a larger battlegroup.
In Greek mythology, the ship of Theseus slowly replaces individual pieces over time. Eventually, all of the pieces that comprise the ship are replaced, presenting a philosophical question: Is it still the same ship? One could argue the United States military’s approach to personnel policy reform through the continued use of incremental, patchwork policy updates […]
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The carrier-launched F/A-18 Super Hornet Block III has already exceeded expectations. It has flown years beyond its intended useful life and may continue to fly and fight in the future.
F/A-18 Block III Super Hornet, Explained
In recent years, the famed fighter has received new cockpit displays, infrared targeting technology, shaped fuel tanks, weapon upgrades, external gun pods, and special glide-slope carrier landing software called “magic carpet.” This is not an exhaustive list.
The Flying Barrel! The Saab 29, a machine built to fight the Russians, became a military icon that marked history. This dual fighter bomber was kept in the Swedish Air Force for over two decades; even today, three can be admired in European museums. But what makes this ship a masterpiece?
The origin of the Saab 29: why was it so important?
At the end of World War II, the entire world began to research and build its jet fighters, but Sweden felt it was falling behind.
On March 20, the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Directorate announced the destruction of “large stocks” of Russian Kalibr cruise missiles.
These missiles were transported by rail and were to be deployed from surface ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. The Kalibr, one of Russia’s most advanced and accurate cruise missiles, can be fired from the sea or air. Its effective range is more than 2,500 km on land and 375 km at sea.
Russia has regularly used sea-launched Kalibr missiles to attack civilian infrastructure, sparking an escalation in the war between the two countries.
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The U.S.-promised MIM-104 Patriot air defense system will be delivered to Ukraine sooner than anticipated, according to U.S. military officials.
On Dec. 21, the day U.S. President Joe Biden promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the U.S. would give his nation one of its Patriot systems, a senior U.S. defense official told reporters, including from The War Zone, that the delivery could take a while, with the training of Ukrainian troops expected to last at least several months.
On Dec. 21, 2022, U.S.
From the perspective of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, more than 20 Ka-52s and Mi-28-NMs have been shot down so far. We must consider whether this expensive armed helicopter is needed with such a low survival rate. Would it be a better choice to use a lower-cost surveillance drone?
First of all, let’s look at the significance of the existence of armed helicopters.
Most of the time, the main task of armed helicopters is to use rockets to provide fire support to ground armed forces or to attack opponent tanks or armored vehicles through anti-tank missiles.
The Army’s new armored personnel carriers have been sent to the front lines, replacing a Vietnam-era vehicle that made up over a third of tracked vehicles in the service’s heavy armored formations.
On March 13, approximately 20 of the new vehicles were delivered to the 1st Armored Combat Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division.
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, 60 Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicles (AMPVs), tracked armored vehicles with gearing and suspension identical to the M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, are on their way there.
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans
After decades of bidding for peace, Japan is now once more preparing for the possibility of war, for the first time truly introducing offensive capabilities to the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) and installing long-range anti-ship missiles on islands near Taiwan. Despite its post-Cold War hopes of diplomatically resolving its territorial conflicts, it now finds itself perched at the edge of an increasingly assertive China and Russia (which still occupies four of Japan’s southernmost Kuril Islands) and a nuclear-capable North Korea.