Ordnance News & Articles

FN America Wins U.S. Army Contract for M240 Machine Guns

The U.S. Army will receive FN’s M240 series machine gun variants and spare receivers in a firm-fixed-price contract awarded through 2026

Jun 16, 2021
Rostec Develops New Ammunition to Protect Armored Vehicles

Rostec’s Central Scientific-Research Institute for Precision Machine Engineering has developed a projectile that creates an aerosol-dipole curtain which ‘blinds’ the enemy's weapon guidance system

Jun 14, 2021
Oshkosh Defense Wins Contract to Provide Stryker Vehicle Armaments

Oshkosh Defense will integrate a 30 mm medium caliber weapon system onto U.S. Army Stryker Double V Hull Infantry Carrier Vehicles to increase lethality, accuracy, and range while still maintaining the vehicles' mobility and survivability

Jun 14, 2021
BAE Wins Contract to Design Vertical Launch System for U.S. Navy

BAE Systems has been chosen as the design agent for the mechanical portion of the Mark 41 Vertical Launching System (Mk 41 VLS), a shipborne missile canister launching system that provides a rapid-fire launch capability

May 27, 2021
First MMP Firing from Jaguar Armored Vehicle

The Direction Générale de l’Armement (French Procurement Agency) has successfully demonstrated the first lock-on firing of a Missile Moyenne Portée (MMP) by MBDA, from the Jaguar armored reconnaissance vehicle by Nexter

May 27, 2021
THeMIS UGVs Used in Live-Fire Exercise

Milrem Robotics’ THeMIS UGVs (Unmanned Ground Vehicles) have been used in an Estonian live-fire manned-unmanned teaming exercise, providing troops with situational awareness, casualty evacuation and support fire

May 25, 2021
British Armed Forces Order 4 More Rheinmetall UGVs

Equipped with Rheinmetall PATH technology, the Mission Master UGV is a modular, autonomous, robotic vehicle designed to enhance operational effectiveness of troops

May 21, 2021
Amphibious Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle for U.S. Marines Announced

Textron Systems’ Cottonmouth ARV is an advanced Naval Sensor Node as an unmanned amphibious scout vehicle that delivers advanced manoeuvrability and a synergized sensor system

May 17, 2021
Sweden Receives 1st Delivery of Advanced Air Defense Missile

Lockheed Martin's Patriot Advanced Capability-3 MSE intercepters provide the Swedish military with increased performance in both altitude and range while employing proven Hit-to-Kill technology

May 13, 2021
U.S. Navy to Receive Additional Vertical Launch System Canisters

The canisters from BAE Systems will play a critical role for storing, transporting, and firing a range of offensive and defensive missiles from the deck of the U.S. Navy’s guided-missile cruisers and destroyers

May 12, 2021
Rheinmetall Delivers 300th MASS for Maritime Protection

The fully automated Multi Ammunition Softkill System (MASS) decoy system offers a unique degree of protection against modern, sensor-guided missiles, covering all relevant wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum

May 12, 2021
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