The Australian government is close to making a decision on its ambitious LAND 400 project which aims to replace much of the Land Force’s existing armoured vehicle fleet. With resulting contracts worth as much as AUD10 billion, it is the Australian Army’s most expensive and most complex equipment acquisition programme to date.

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US Special Forces units could soon be getting their hands on stealth motorbikes, thanks to new technology being developed in the US. The new off-road motorbikes will be able to move silently across harsh enemy terrain using a hybrid-electric engine repurposed from an unmanned aerial vehicle.

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The US and the EU plan additional sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine crisis, North Korea started a new live-fire exercise near the disputed Northern Limit Line, and South Korea developed a new long-range ballistic missile to boost its defences. Army-technology.com wraps-up the key headlines from April.

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In this issue: How the British soldier’s kit evolved during operations Iraq and Afghanistan, the world’s nuclear arsenal, breakthroughs in networked simulation training for pilots, naval power shifts in the Asia Pacific region and more

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Military personnel and equipment helped turn the tide for people left homeless and stranded after the unrelenting winter storms that hit the UK in late 2013 and early 2014.. Critics complained that the government left it too late to get troops involved, but what is the process by which British armed forces respond to disasters, and could it be made more efficient?

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Smart weapons can precisely hit enemy targets, minimise collateral damage and maximise lethality, with the ultimate aim being ‘fire and forget’ targeting. Now the technology that evolved to optimise the effectiveness of guided bombs and missiles has been incorporated into soldier-borne weapons, launch systems and ammunition.

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The US and Russia have ended emergency talks without finding a suitable diplomatic solution for the Ukrainian crisis, while the Australian Department of Defence is investing up to $13m for development of future technology. Army-technology.com wraps-up the key headlines from March.

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On this day in 1949, twelve nations came together in Washington DC to sign the North Atlantic Treaty. The treaty created the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – or NATO – a collective defence arrangement which could check Soviet aggressive. But since the break up of the Soviet Union many have questioned NATO’s purpose. Could Russia’s actions in Crimea and Ukraine and NATO’s response change all that?

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Turkey’s defence industry is booming. Arms exports are on the up and the proportion of equipment in the armed forces made outside Turkey is falling every year. Turkey is now building its own UAVs, naval ships and even a main battle tank. But this drive for self-sufficiency could affect Turkey’s decades-old relationship with NATO and foreign suppliers.

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From the enormous Tsar Bomba, detonated with the force of 3,800 Hiroshima explosions, to the Mk-41, the biggest thermonuclear device ever built by the US, army-technology.com lists the world’s most powerful nuclear bombs based on explosive power (or yield).

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