Rheinmetall has announced the selection of the American Rheinmetall Vehicles and General Motors (GM) Defense consortium to support the US Army’s Common Tactical Truck (CTT) programme.
The collaboration was established last year to compete for the CTT programme. The team proposed their HX3 Common Tactical Truck (HX3-CTT) for this programme.
Apart from the American Rheinmetall-GM Defense team, other transaction authority (OTA) agreements have also been awarded to three other companies including Oshkosh Defense, Mack Defense, and Navistar Defense.
Browsing: All news
Category Added in a WPeMatico Campaign
UK Defence Minister Ben Wallace and Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Wigston presented the SkyGuardian at an event at the capability’s future homebase of RAF Waddington in September 2021. The Protector that is derived from the SkyGuardian will operate from 2024 to the “mid-2030s”, according to the MoD.
Understand the impact of the Ukraine conflict from a cross-sector perspective with the Global Data Executive Briefing: Ukraine Conflict
Australia and France have confirmed their intent to jointly provide 155mm ammunition to strengthen the self-defence capabilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The same was confirmed in a joint statement released after a second, recently held France-Australia Foreign and Defence Ministerial Consultations meeting in Paris.
The Texas National Security Review (TNSR, https://tnsr.org) is seeking a motivated, innovative, detail-oriented, and energetic executive editor to take the reins after the successful inaugural tenure of Dr. Doyle Hodges. We are looking for candidates eager to help lead what has become one of the world’s premier journals on international security. About the Journal The Texas National Security […]
The post TNSR is Hiring an Executive Editor appeared first on War on the Rocks.
During the Cold War, U.S. Special Operations Forces accepted extreme levels of operational risk during routine training exercises. The Green Light teams, for instance, would practice parachuting into “enemy territory” with live Small Atomic Demolition Munitions. Today, however, the tactical risks of modern special operations missions to rescue American citizens or capture terrorists pale in […]
The post Recalibrating Special Operations Risk Tolerance for the Future Fight appeared first on War on the Rocks.
The Heckler & Koch P7, which used to be called the PSP for “Polizei Selbstlader Pistole,” has a powerful round but is small enough to fit in a pocket or holster. Because of this, the breech must be locked, and gas pressure is a good way to do this. Usually, a recoil spring is under the slide, and a guide rod is inside the spring.
This guide rod, however, has been precisely machined, and it slides within a cylinder that fits snugly in the frame just above the trigger as the slide recoils.
The obsolete J-7 fighter jet of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), which has been flying for several decades and has been produced in various variants, will finally be withdrawn from service this year.
China started to retire the J-7 as early as 2018. However, Chinese experts have opined that the aircraft could be withdrawn entirely from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force this year.
The reason is the increasing production of sophisticated fighters in China. The J-7, based on the Soviet MiG-21, made its first flight in China in 1966.
An artist’s rendering of the SEWIP Block 3 EA subsystem installed on a DDG-51 destroyer. (Northrop Grumman)
Northrop Grumman is preparing to conduct a new round of sea trials of its prototype electronic attack (EA) system for the US Navy, building upon the lessons learned from the system’s last live demonstration carried out during the sea service’s Rim of the Pacific’ (RIMPAC) exercises in the summer of 2022.
A few years ago, the staff at USAA (a financial services company formally known as United Services Automobile Association) kept hearing the same question: “Do You Offer Small Business Insurance?”
So, in January 2021, USAA gave its members what they wanted and created coverage available in 30 states underwritten by USAA.
Traditionally focused on providing military members and their families with personal lines of insurance, such as auto, life and home policies, USAA began helping people in 1922.
Reversal comes as Congress considers bill seeking redress for military’s discharged vaccine refuseniks.
The United States Military Academy is reimposing restrictions on unvaccinated cadets despite the lifting of the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, reports military attorney R. Davis Younts, a reversal that comes even as Congress mulls legislation seeking redress for service members dismissed for vaccine refusal.
The Department of Defense rescinded the military vaccine mandate pursuant to the Dec.