DefenceTalkGermany has started withdrawing its soldiers and material from Afghanistan. The move poses a great logistical challenge and will also be expensive. Despite the Bundeswehr’s experience in overseas assignments, getting its equipment out of Afghanistan will prove to be an unprecedented logistical challenge. According to information provided by the German military, it will have to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/germany-starts-moving-equipment-out-of-afghanistan-48626/

DefenceTalkThe US military has destroyed more than 77,000 metric tons of military equipment — including mine-resistant troop transport vehicles — as it prepares to withdraw from Afghanistan in late 2014, the Washington Post reported Thursday. More than $7 billion worth of military equipment is no longer needed, or would be too expensive to ship back […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-scraps-tons-of-gear-as-it-leaves-afghanistan-report-48201/

DefenceTalkSenior Army and Air Force leaders for the Reserve and National Guard were on Capitol Hill to testify March 19 and answer questions about updating and replacing their combat-worn equipment. Chairman Michael Turner, R-Ohio, and Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., led the hearing at the House Armed Services Committee’s Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee. They […]https://www.defencetalk.com/congress-reviews-reserve-forces-equipment-needs-47264/

DefenceTalkThe US military has started to withdraw equipment from Afghanistan through Pakistan ahead of next year’s deadline for combat troops to leave the war against the Taliban, an official said Monday. Two convoys, each hauling 25 shipping containers, entered Pakistan at the Chaman and Torkham border crossings on Sunday as part of the US redeployment […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-withdraws-military-equipment-through-pakistan-46747/

DefenceTalkThe Ministry of Defence has today published details of how it will equip the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force over the next 10 years and how this will be funded. For the first time, the government has set out a fully-funded Defence Equipment Plan totalling almost £160 billion. The affordability of this plan […]https://www.defencetalk.com/mod-reveals-160-billion-plan-to-equip-armed-forces-46610/