SOCOM Awards Polaris Defense New MRZR Contract
SOCOM has awarded Polaris Defense a new $83 million sole-source, firm fixed-price contract for the MRZR off-road vehicle, with …
Fighting Vehicles
Abrams and Globemaster at the National Training Center
A U.S. Army video by Jason Miller shows an Abrams sending rounds downrange and a C-17 making a tactical landing …
Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF): Special Operations Forces and the Liberation of Iraq
Special operations forces (SOF) have been at the forefront of post-Cold War military operations, a trend that has only …
Russian T90 Tank Drives Underwater
A popular YouTube video of a T90 tank using fording equipment to cross a water obstacle submerged. While fording capabilities …
Logos Technologies Wins Phase II DARPA Award for SilentHawk Special Ops Motorcycle
Logos Technologies LLC has received a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects …
U.S. Armor Developments: After Abrams
The follow-on to the Abrams was to have been part of the Army’s Future Combat Systems (FCS), a family of …
U.S. Armor Developments: Abrams, the Game-changer
“The Task Force guidance was a back-to-basics philosophy in tank design – no gold plating, no sophisticated, futuristic technology that …
U.S. Armor Developments: New Technologies, New Environments, New Concepts
As World War II’s reluctant allies became Cold War adversaries, the United States found itself facing multiple – and decidedly …
DSCA Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Top $30 Billion in FY 14
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced yesterday in a press release that it had conducted sales of $34.2 billion …
Spanish Marines Hit the Beach: Noble Justification 2014 | Video
NATO Channel video of an amphibious assault during Exercise Noble Justification 2014. NATO Maritime Command’s multinational NATO Response Force (NRF) …