101 (Northumbrian) Regiment Royal Artillery and 1 Regiment Royal Horse Artillery fire MLRS

The first-ever 155mm artillery gun fitted to an 8×8 armoured vehicle could become a reality following proposals from BAE Systems at the IDEX exhibition. At the show, BAE Systems is displaying a model of its M777 155mm howitzer fitted to the top and rear of the Enigma 8×8 vehicle from Emirates Technology Company (ETC). A […]

British Army FV-510 AFV crashed into family garden in Paderborn Germany. The Warrior tracked vehicle family is a series of British armoured vehicles, originally developed to replace the older FV430 series of armoured vehicles. The Warrior started life as the MCV-80 project that was first broached in the 1970s, GKN Sankey/Defence winning the production contract […]

Thinkdefence.co.uk. The Advanced Composite Armoured Vehicle Platform (ACAVP) was often called the ‘plastic tank’ although it was neither. The aim was demonstrate how an advanced plastic/glass fibre composite called E-Glass could provide comparable protection with steel and aluminium with a reduced infra red and acoustic signature and significantly improved corrosion resistance, especially against salt water. […]

The British Army is to get a new ground-based air defense missile under the program name FLAADS to replace the aging Rapier system following the signing of a development and manufacture deal by the Defence Ministry and MBDA last month. A British MoD spokeswomen confirmed a program worth £228 million (US $343 million) had been […]

David Cameron has put them on standby to head off the ‘fanatical death cult of Islamist extremist violence’. The elite soldiers will take part in training exercises in which firearms police will re-create the horror witnessed in France last week. A defence source said: ‘Special forces will be involved in re-enacting the Paris attack because […]

The British Army almost brought down a troop-carrying RAF helicopter when one of its own drones flew within 60ft of the giant aircraft, a report found. The £15million Merlin vehicle and metre-long Desert Hawk surveillance drone should have been flying in their own restricted areas. But they came close to crashing during a massive military […]

BAE have delivered the final Terrier Combat Engineer Vehicle (CEV). There are now 60 vehicles delivered from what has been a troubled development and manufacturing phase. The production facility at BAE in Newcastle has been sold to Pearson Engineering. Product description from BAE. Likened to a combat ‘Swiss Army Knife’, Terrier is one of the […]

(Reuters) – Japan is asking Britain to buy its P-1 submarine-hunting jet in a deal that could top $1 billion, a major step in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s push to arms exports after decades of self-imposed restrictions, people with knowledge of the proposal said. Britain has not formally decided it will buy new maritime patrol […]

The first of the RAF’s A400M Atlas next-generation military transport aircraft has been officially unveiled at its new home at RAF Brize Norton.