French army AMX-10RCs in the Middle East in 1990 or 1991. Wikimedia Commons Back in January, France pledged to Ukraine an unspecified number—perhaps 50—of the French army’s soon-to-be-surplus AMX-10RC...
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Swedish Missiles. Emirati Armored Trucks. The Ukrainian Army’s Newest Mechanized Brigade Has A Weird Mix Of Weapons.
An 88th Mechanized Brigade Panthera F9 armored truck. 88th Mechanized Brigade photo The Ukrainian army has been forming new mechanized brigades as fast as it can recruit, train and equip the troops. I...
The Ukrainian Army’s Speedy M-113 Ambulances Help It Save More Wounded Troops
M-113 ambulance. Wikimedia Commons The 1960s-vintage M-113 armored personnel carrier is thinly armored and lightly armed. In a serious firefight, it’s a poor substitute for tougher, more modern infant...
The Ukrainian Army Just Blew Up One Of The Russian Army’s 10 Terminator Fighting Vehicles
The BMP-T explodes. Ukrainian army capture The single company of unique BMP-T Terminator fighting vehicles that the Russian army deployed to eastern Ukraine last spring was, for many months, pretty lu...
The Ukrainian Army’s Fast, Lightly-Armed Stryker Vehicles Are Best At Fighting In Cities
U.S. Army Strykers train in Hawaii in 2012. U.S. Army photo The 90 Stryker armored vehicles the United States has pledged to Ukraine could constitute the main equipment of an entire brigade. That brig...
It Took Just Two Weeks For One Of The Ukrainian Army’s Newest Brigades To Get American-Made M-2 Fighting Vehicles
U.S. Army M-2 fighting vehicles and M-1 tanks at Grafenwoehr training area in Germany in 2018. U.S. Army photo Just two weeks after the administration of U.S. president Joe Biden announced it would do...
Lockheed Martin Challenges US Army’s Helicopter Contract To Competitor
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Corp (NYSE: LMT) company, filed a formal protest asking the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review the U.S. Army’s decision on the Future Long-Range As...
As Anticipated, Lockheed Martin-Sikorsky Has Protested the Army’s FLRAA Selection
A conceptual image of Sikorsky-Boeing Defiant X helicopters deploying troops in a landing zone – an … [+] image that the Army’s early December FLRAA selection putatively nullified. S...
The Ukrainian Army’s Jaeger Brigades Are Its Middleweight Forest-Fighters
71st Jaeger Brigade troopers. Ukrainian army photo The Ukrainian army grew fast in the months before, and after, a 200,000-man Russian army rolled into northern, eastern and southern Ukraine, widening...
The Russian Army’s Terminator Vehicles Are Heavily Armed, Highly Protected … And Far Too Few To Matter
A BMP-T near Svatove. ANNA New capture Arms-maker Uralvagonzavod manufactured only 10 or so high-tech BMP-T Terminator fighting vehicles for the Russian army. This spring most, or all, of the heavily-...
The Ukrainian Army Captured Dozens Of The Russian Army’s Old T-62 Tanks—And Is Now Sending Them Back Into Battle
An ex-Russian T-62 in Ukrainian colors. Via social media After losing a thousand of its best T-80 and T-72 tanks in Ukraine, the Kremlin early this summer began pulling 50-year-old T-62s out of long-t...
The Ukrainian Army’s Helicopters Sat Out The Last Campaign. They Sure Aren’t Sitting Out This One.
Ukrainian army Mil Mi-8s. Ukrainian defense ministry photo It was an open question, as Russian forces massed along Ukraine’s borders in late 2021 and early 2022, whether the Ukrainian army’s helicopte...
The Army’s Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Is A Model Of What Military Acquisition Can Accomplish
In mid-October, the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) will conduct its annual exposition in the nation’s capital. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Building The Army Of 2030.” That is a ...
The Army’s Biggest, Fastest Helicopter Is Poised For Further Performance Gains
Way back when the cold war was ending, an enterprising division of General MotorsGM decided to burnish the image of its vehicles with the slogan, “This is not your father’s Oldsmobile.” The ad campaig...
Hackers Attack British Army’s Twitter
More than $7B was stolen in cryptocurrency scams in 2021, according to Chainalysis Crypto scammers briefly hacked the official Twitter, YouTube and Facebook accounts of the British army Rug-pull scams...
NFT, BTC Scams Featured on British Army’s Compromised Twitter, YouTube Accounts
Twitter and YouTube accounts of the British Army were simultaneously hacked on Sunday and used for promoting two different crypto scams. However, by Sunday evening, the compromised accounts had been r...
Crypto Hackers Target British Army’s Twitter and YouTube Accounts
Hackers are going all-in in their quests to draw attention to their preferred crypto projects. The latest antic is a hack of the British Army’s Twitter and YouTube accounts to promote non-fungible tok...
British Army’s YouTube And Twitter Accounts Hacked—And Flooded With Crypto Posts
Topline The British Army said Sunday afternoon it has launched an investigation into a breach of its Twitter and YouTube accounts hours earlier, which led to the military branch’s accounts being used ...
Army’s Future Vertical Lift Competition Could Have A Devastating Impact On The Industrial Base
Sometime later this year, probably in September, the U.S. Army will select the winner of its biggest rotorcraft program since the Vietnam War era. As part of its Future Vertical Lift modernization pro...
The Ukrainians Have Nearly Destroyed One Of The Russian Army’s Best Regiments
A wrecked BMD near Bucha. Via Twitter user @BarracudaVol1 Eight years ago, an elite Russian parachute regiment played a central role in a massacre of Ukrainian soldiers. Now Ukraine has exacted its re...
The Ukrainian Army’s Helicopter Crews Could Be in Big Trouble If Russia Attacks
A Ukrainian soldier assigned to 1st Battalion, 80th Air-Mobile Brigade lies in the prone position to … [+] provide coverage for an air-assault mission in conjunction with a situational training ...
Army’s climate plan will slash emissions, build electric vehicle fleet
Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth testifies before the House Armed Services Committee about the FY2022 defense budget request in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, June 29, 2021 ...
The Russian Army’s Huge Engineering Vehicles Could Carve Paths Across Ukraine
A BAT-2 in Donbas in 2019. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, the likeliest battleground in the event Russia widens its eight-year war on Ukraine, is...