Let’s talk about the Leopard 2. This might just be the ultimate battle tank. Developed by the German defense company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), the Leopard 2 has won the hearts of armies around the world. It’s easy to see why.
Here is what you need to know about the Leopard 2 tank
Performance
The Leopard 2’s turbocharged diesel engine packs a punch with 1500 horsepower. That means this beast can hit 72 km/h on roads and 50 km/h off-road. Oh, and it’s not afraid of getting its feet wet.
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It may sound like a summer disaster movie where the writers went a little too far while writing it. “What if, to stop the lava, the Army comes in and bombs it?”
But, umm, that happened. Multiple times. Seriously. The Army and Air Force just keep bombing volcanoes.
And it’s not quite as crazy as it sounds, but modern experts are skeptical that it will ever really work.
The basic idea is simple. Lava often flows in underground channels called lava tubes. In some volcanoes, that’s the primary way that lava moves away from the high-pressure magma chambers.
The US Army has awarded Raytheon Technologies a $237 million contract for Ku-band Radio Frequency Sensors (KuRFS) and Coyote effectors, which will help detect and defeat unmanned aircraft (UAVs).
These capabilities will be part of the Army’s low, slow, small-unmanned aircraft integrated defeat system (LIDS) and will support the Army’s US Central Command operations.
KuRFS will provide advanced 360-degree threat detection, while Coyote’s low-cost effectors will defeat drones.
Marine Pfc. Noah Evans , 21, died at Marine Corps Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, on April 18,2023. (U.S. Marine Corps photo.).
Marine Pfc. Noah Evans, 21, died on April 18 at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina, Corps officials have announced.
Evans, who was assigned to Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, was taking his unit’s final physical fitness test on the 55th day of the training cycle at the time of his death, said Maj. Philip Kulczewski, a Parris Island spokesman.
If you want to get into Special Operations, you’re going to need to get familiar with your rucksack. This Green Beret will get you started.
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Ryan sat down at 1789 in Georgetown with Justin Vaïsse, a French historian and director general of the Paris Peace Forum, an independent NGO he started at the urging of French President Emmanuel Macron. Justin recently returned from China where he was traveling with Macron. They discussed Macron’s recent remarks about China that were so […]
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History is replete with examples of the impact of weather on war and how it causes headaches for operations planners.
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Lockheed Martin, the global aerospace and defence company, has reported strong Q1 2023 results with sales of $15.1bn and a segment operating profit of $1.7bn, representing a 16% growth from Q1 2022.
The company’s earnings have been driven by the growing threat of China in the South China Sea and Indo-Pacific, as well as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which is driving the US national defense strategy.
The F-35 program spearheaded the company’s earnings, receiving strong support from services. In February, Canada procured 88 F-35’s, with the delivery of F-35 engines resumed.
Patriot air-defence systems have arrived in Ukraine (photo of Luftwaffe Patriot published when the air-defence system was deployed close to Zamość on the Polish-Ukrainian border in January). (Bundeswehr/Lars Koch)
Patriot air-defence systems have arrived in Ukraine, the country’s Defence Minister, Oleksii Reznikov, tweeted on 19 April, expecting them to make the Ukrainian sky more secure. He thanked US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, as well as the American, German, and Dutch people.
DroneShield will deliver the DroneGun Mk4 (pictured) as well as some of its other portable C-UAS solutions to the US DoD and another US government agency under two recently secured contracts. (DroneShield)
DroneShield has secured two contracts, one from the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the other from a US government agency, to provide multiple types of handheld counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) equipment.
The deliveries under the two contracts, together valued at USD2.