Defence Industry

BAE Systems-Led Team to Submit Proposal for JLTV EMD Phase

BAE Systems, along with teammates Northrop Grumman and Meritor Defense, announced today that they plan to submit tomorrow a proposal for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program.

Contracts

Textron Marine & Land Systems Awarded Contract Option for Additional Afghanistan National Army Armored Vehicles

New Orleans, LA -- Textron Marine & Land Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, announced today that it received an option award from the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Warren, Mich., for 64 additional Mobile Strike Force Vehicles (MSFV) for the Afghanistan National Army (ANA).

Robots

TORC Robotics Announces Unmanned Vehicle Conversion Kits for Ground Robotics Market

TORC Robotics now offers unmanned vehicle conversion kits to rapidly configure by-wire, tele-operated, and autonomous control on customer selected mobility platforms. An open architecture supports the integration and control of modular mission payloads, allowing the kits to be used in a wide range of applications from basic unmanned vehicle research to Warfighter-ready solutions, including IED detection and defeat, ISR, RSTA, and CBRNE missions.

Defence Industry

Ukraine holds talks on sale of T-84U Oplot battle tanks to Azerbaijan

According to APA, presentations of new tanks were held for Azerbaijani specialists and appreciated. At present, the discussions on sale and purchase of tanks are at the final stage.

Defence Industry

The G6 -Still outgunning the competition

Twenty five years after it astonished the global defence community, South Africa’s G6 self-propelled Gun-Howitzer still sets the standards against which all long-distance artillery are being measured.

Defence Industry

Navistar Defense Receives MRAP Installation Order

LISLE, Ill. -- Navistar Defense, LLC received an award to conduct the installation work associated with its January order to upgrade 2,717 International® MaxxPro® Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles with a new vehicle chassis. The $21 million contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command is just one of Navistar's many reset offerings aimed at revitalizing existing defense assets for future missions.

Robots

iRobot receives military order for FirstLook robots

iRobot Corp., a leader in delivering robotic technology-based solutions, received a $1.5 million order, funded by the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), for more than 100 of the company’s model 110 FirstLook™ robots.

Defence Industry

Hendrickson and AxleTech International Awarded Contract by Navistar Defense for 2,717 MaxxPro Suspension Systems

WOODRIDGE, Ill., and TROY, Mich. –- Hendrickson, a Boler Company, and AxleTech International, a General Dynamics company, were recently awarded a contract from Navistar Defense, LLC, to equip 2,717 International® MaxxPro® Long Wheel Base (LWB) Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles with independent suspension systems.

Future Technologies

General Dynamics UK Selects Green Hills Software for British Army's Specialist Vehicle Programme

NUREMBERG, GERMANY -- Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, has announced that its INTEGRITY® real-time operating system (RTOS) has been chosen by General Dynamics UK as the operating system software for all the mission-critical computers of the Scout Specialist Vehicles (SV) programme, which General Dynamics UK is developing during the demonstration phase of the programme.

Robots

Four Light Robots Put Through Paces at Fort Benning

FORT BENNING, Ga. -- Infantrymen and engineers steered four small robots around the buildings and terrain at the McKenna Urban Operations Complex last week to get a better idea how they might help Soldiers in recon missions and the detection of improvised explosive devices.

Defence Industry

Lazika IFV has been unveiled at the Vasiani, Georgia

Lazika Tracked Infantry Combat Vehicle has been unveiled at the Vasiani military firing-range. The Georgian President and Defence Minister drove a few kilometers in a new armored vehicle along with military servicemen.

Exhibitions

Tawazun to reveal UAE`s emerging manufacturing and technology capabilities at International Armoured Vehicles

Abu Dhabi -- Tawazun Holding, the Abu Dhabi-based strategic investment firm, is the Lead Sponsor of this year's 11th Annual International Armoured Vehicles (IAV) conference and exhibition being held at FIVE, Farnborough, UK from 20th to 23rd Feb 2012.

Exhibitions

MillenWorks’ New, Rapidly Deployable Battery Management System Optimizes Battery Performance

San Diego, CA -- MillenWorks, a strategic business of Textron Marine & Land Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, introduced its new Battery Management System (BMS) at the SAE 2012 Hybrid Vehicle Technologies Symposium in San Diego.

Defence Industry

New Wide-Field Thermal Camera Systems from DRS Technologies Helps Keep Military Vehicles on the Road – And Troops Safer

PARSIPPANY, NJ -- DRS Technologies, Inc. a Finmeccanica Company announced its Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition (RSTA) Group has developed a new type of wide-angle thermal camera that can help keep military vehicles from accidently dropping off treacherous mountain roads in the war zone.

Defence Industry

Oshkosh Defense, U.S. Military Complete 3,500 M-ATV Underbody Kit Installations In-Theater in Seven Months

OSHKOSH, Wis. -- Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE:OSK), and the U.S. military have reached a significant milestone in the ongoing battle against improvised explosive devices (IED) in Afghanistan, having recently completed the in-theater installation of the 3,500th Oshkosh MRAP All-Terrain Vehicle (M-ATV) Underbody Improvement Kit (UIK) in less than seven months to give Warfighters new levels of protection against the threats.