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US-based company Oshkosh Defense has been awarded a new contract to supply additional Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV) to the US Army.
The contract has an estimated value of $84.9m and was awarded by the US Army Contracting Command – Detroit Arsenal, Michigan.
According to the US Department of Defense announcement, the company will carry out the associated JLTV production work at its facility in Wisconsin, US.
Work under the new order is expected to be complete by August next year.
Mike Kofman and Ryan Evans cover a lot of ground in this episode about the war in Ukraine: Russian goals in the Donbass, the coming Russian counter-offensive, the state of Russian and Ukrainian forces, tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, cluster and sensor-fuzed munitions, fourth-generation fighter aircraft, a warm winter, nuclear risk, and more. If you […]
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The policy of masking advanced academic degrees from major and lieutenant colonel promotion boards has long been a contentious one in the Air Force. Recently, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall repealed the department’s on-again, off-again policy, once again igniting a longstanding debate over the value of education credentials for field-grade officer ranks. Now, prospective promotees’ […]
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According to a recent report by Russian state media, the Russian Navy’s Project 22350M will be equipped with surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) with a maximum range of 400 kilometers.
These SAMs are reportedly derived from the 40N6 interceptor missiles of Russia’s most advanced air defense system, the S-400.
In the course of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, tank warfare has shown to be both effective and devastating. Due to heavy casualties (1,600 main battle tanks in 11 months), Moscow deployed some of its aging T-62 MBTS from the Soviet era to the front lines this fall.
As Forbes reports, the Ukrainian counteroffensives have led to a net gain in captured tanks. Kyiv may have more and better tanks than its invader at the moment, but they need to keep getting newer, more reliable ones to keep up their defensive operations.
MOSCOW, RUSSIA – Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev has visited a missile factory in the Moscow region and familiarized himself with the latest aviation missile technology.
Judging by the photo on his Telegram channel, Medvedev is especially interested in the unusual square-section missile. BulgarianMilitary.com has found out what the missile consists of and why exactly it might interest Vladimir Putin’s deputy on the Security Council.
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Many casualties and the massive ammunition consumption during the Ukrainian war worry NATO’s high command.
After being founded in 1949 in response to fears of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, NATO has gained members since the Cold War’s end, but many of its militaries have shrunk in the decades since the Soviet threat has diminished.
Concerns have been expressed regarding the alliance’s capacity to launch a large-scale war against Russia in light of the scale and intensity of the battle in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian officials have promised not to use weapons supplied by the west to attack inside Russian borders. But they’ve never made any such assertions about their own weapons, one of which apparently exploded Monday near the city of Kaluga some 200 miles northeast of the border and 100 miles southwest of Moscow.
“It was established that at five in the morning in a forest near the city, a drone exploded in the air at a height of 50 meters,” Vladislav Shapsha, governor of Kaluga Oblast, reported Monday on his Telegram channel.
(U.S.F-22s: Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald / Balloon: Tyler Schlitt Photography / LiveStormChasers.com
Saturday afternoon, the world watched as an F-22 Raptor stealth fighter from the 1st Fighter Wing at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia fired a missile into the Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina that had been floating over the United States for days.