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All 28 of the RAF’s Hawk T2 jet trainer aircraft have been grounded while the MoD investigates an engine issue. (Janes/Gareth Jennings)
The UK Royal Air Force (RAF) has grounded its fleet of BAE Systems Hawk T2 training aircraft following a runway engine incident at the type’s homebase in North Wales.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed the temporary flight suspension to
Janes
on 26 January, saying the precautionary measure had been put in place pending the result of an investigation into a ground-based engine issue.

The Boxer RRV consists of a Boxer drive module fitted with the ARM mission module. The new version of the RRV presented at IAV will require the drive module to be fitted with a power take-off. (FFG)
Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft (FFG) has implemented several changes to its proposed Boxer Repair and Recovery Vehicle (RRV) variant, the company revealed during a presentation at Defence iQ’s International Armoured Vehicles (IAV) 2023 conference, which was held in London from 23 to 26 January.

The German Army’s heavy weapon carrier will be based on Austrialia’s Boxer Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle, pictured with Australian Army soldiers during Exercise ‘Chong Ju’ at the Puckapunyal training area, Victoria, on 16 May 2018. (Australian MoD)

The German Army’s share of the EUR100 million (USD109 million) Zeitenwende special fund, approved after Russia invaded Ukraine, focuses on armoured vehicles,
Janes
learnt at Defence iQ’s International Armoured Vehicles (IAV) 2023 conference held in London on 23–26 January.

Swedish Army CV90 IFVs in Afghanistan. (Försvarsmakten)

Sweden is planning two brigades for expeditionary operations,
Janes
learnt at Defence iQ’s International Armoured Vehicles (IAV) 2023 conference held in London from 23 to 26 January.

The two brigades would rotate on deployments and the Swedish Army plans to recruit more contract soldiers to retain their readiness.

The Israel Ministry of Defense announced on 2 November 2021 that along with the German Ministry of Defence, it had completed the first series of live-firing tests in Germany of the Trophy active defence system integrated into a Leopard 2 main battle tank.

With US Navy (USN) Constellation-class guided-missile frigate (FFG 62) shipbuilding under way, Thales’ Advanced Acoustic Concepts is now looking to ramp up its own manufacturing capacity and resources for the ships’ combined active/passive towed-array sonar (CAPTAS) variable depth sonar system, according to Mark Bock, vice-president of Advanced Acoustic Concepts for Strategy and Business Development.“We are standing up US manufacturing,” Bock told Janes on 10 January during the Surface Navy Association (SNA) national symposium.

Comtech’s products include the Modular Transportable Transmission System (MTTS), which enables beyond-line-of-sight communications. (Comtech)
Comtech Telecommunications Corporation is forming “strategic relationships” with six companies to fill gaps in its capabilities and improve its offering, according to the chief executive of the US-based communications equipment provider.

Camp Blaz under construction on Guam. Image taken in September, 2022. PHOTO © 2023 PLANET LABS INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. REPRINTED BY PERMISSION

The U.S. Marine Corps has activated a new base camp on the strategic island of Guam in the Pacific, and, at least according to the Marines, it will serve as the first newly constructed base for the service in 70 years. Named Camp Blaz, the installation’s location is not only steeped in Marine Corps history dating back decades but the activation also reflects the U.S.

“We hoped to succeed by sheer bravado,” William Colby wrote. “This was the kind of direct American action they’d heard about…”
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F-16Cs and an F-35A from the Nellis aggressors. Jamie Hunter

“I would say we are more valid now than ever before. With the Secretary of the Air Force and Secretary of Defense saying their focus is China, China, China, that’s what we are here for. We are here to embody and replicate our enemies to the best of our ability,” says Lt. Col. Christopher “Vön” Finkenstadt, F-16 pilot, and commander of the U.S. Air Force’s 64th Aggressor Squadron (AGRS), at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. 
Finkenstadt cites the message from his boss, Maj.