Land News & Articles

US Army Orders Additional HDTs for Construction & Maintenance Missions

Based on the commercially available Mack Granite model, the Mack Defense M917A3 Heavy Dump Trucks (HDTs) are equipped with modern technology, such as ABS and other active safety systems

Aug 22, 2022
AI-Powered Navigation System for UK MoD’s Project Theseus 2.2

Rheinmetall Canada will augment the Polaris MRZR D4 ultra-light tactical vehicle with the PATH Autonomy Kit to support Project Theseus 2.2’s initiative to automate supply delivery to soldiers in hostile environments

Aug 18, 2022
DARPA Selects Teams to Produce Next Generation Battlefield Obscurants

The agency’s Coded Visibility program aims to develop tailorable, tunable, safe obscurants that provide warfighters with an asymmetric advantage

Aug 18, 2022
New Personnel Safety System for US Army Robotic Combat Vehicles

Stratom’s Perimeter Safety for Autonomous Vehicles (P-SAV) system will enable the uncrewed combat vehicle to determine when personnel or combatants are nearby and leverage that information to inform actions

Aug 18, 2022
USMC Orders ACV-30 Test Vehicles

The US Marine Corps (USMC) will receive multiple BAE Systems ACV-30 production representative test vehicles for trials before making a full-rate production decision

Aug 17, 2022
New Tri-Band Observation Antenna System Launched 

Gaia 100 is the first Orbit 3.7m Earth Observation Ground System to include S, X and Ka-band frequencies, enabling download of high data rate information in support of current and future Earth Observation Satellites

Aug 16, 2022
First THeMIS UGV Delivered to Spanish MoD

Milrem Robotics’ THeMIS UGV is a multi-mission capable system intended to support dismounted troops, transport a squad’s gear, or be converted into a weaponized remotely operated unit to offer force protection

Aug 10, 2022
Additional M67 Hand Grenade Body Assemblies for US Army

Over 200,000 fragmentation hand grenade body assemblies from Aerojet Ordnance Tennessee will be delivered in the first year of the five-year contract

Aug 10, 2022
US Army Orders Anti-Vehicle Terrain Shaping Munitions 

With its precision anti-vehicle capability, Textron Systems’ XM204 Top Attack munition will strengthen the Army’s terrain shaping and counter-mobility capabilities

Aug 08, 2022
Ballistic & Blast Resistant Modular Interlocking Building Systems

QUICKBLOCK has completed successful trials of a bullet- and blast-resistant version of its building systems which provide easily portable and rapidly-deployable shelter for troops in hostile environments

Aug 05, 2022
Rolls Royce to Supply MTU Engines for Boxer Armored Vehicles

The Boxers will be the first versions of the vehicle equipped with the MTU 8v 199 TS21 engine variant, delivering 70 KW more power than the MTU engines in previous versions of the Boxer

Aug 05, 2022
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