General Dynamics Awarded Three Land C4ISR Contracts For Canadian Army
General Dynamics Mission Systems-Canada announced today that it was awarded three contracts – valued at $621.5 million – by the …
International Militaries
NATO SeaSparrow Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Courtesy of Surface SITREP, published by the Surface Navy Association (www.navysna.org).
Member nations of the NATO Sea Sparrow Consortium met …
Trident Juncture Stresses Collective Defense of NATO Alliance
Courtesy of Surface SITREP, published by the Surface Navy Association (www.navysna.org).
Fifty thousand military personnel from NATO personnel and partner …
Boeing Upgrading Spanish Chinook Fleet
Boeing will upgrade all 17 of Spain’s CH-47D Chinook helicopters to the F-model configuration, adding features such as the digital …
Brain Buckets, Tin Hats, and Steel Pots: Helmets Have Improved Over Nearly a Century of Use
It’s hard not to get a sickening feeling, staring at photographs of all the gallant young soldiers, resplendent in their …
The Christmas Truce, 1914
The Imperial War Museum photograph captures the oddity of the Christmas Truce, where British and German troops met in no …
Hitler’s Winter Blunder
On Nov. 8, 1941, Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels published an article in the magazine Reich that called …
WEG, Praxis Join Damen Saab Team for Brazilian Corvettes Bid
On December 13, Brazilian company WEG Electric Equipment, and Dutch company Praxis Automation Technology, both leading companies within their respective …
Canada Retires Sea King After More Than 50 Years of Service
The Canadian Armed Forces marked a major military milestone in the retiring of the CH-124 Sea King maritime helicopter, which …
Asterix More Than A Footnote for the Royal Canadian Navy
Courtesy of Surface SITREP, published by the Surface Navy Association (www.navysna.org).
The Royal Canadian Navy’s (RCN) two auxiliary oiler replenishment …