Romania opens the chequebook and reorganises as it watches Russian aggression
Romania is retiring old systems, some Soviet, and replacing them with western equipment from countries such as Sweden and Turkey and boosting existing modern fleets.
The US Marine Corps will soon begin receiving deliveries of its new AN/PAS-28 Medium Range Thermal Biocular.
‘The only two military departments that have a thermal bino requirement are [United States Special Operations Command] and the Marine Corps,’ explained Allen Horman, who works with Advanced Sighting System Products at ELCAN. ‘In the case of the Marine Corps, we received an IDIQ [indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract] for 10,000 units.’
In late January 2009, Raytheon Network Centric Systems (NCS) announced that ELCAN Optical Technologies (a Raytheon Company) had received a $180 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for the procurement, delivery, maintenance,
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Romania is retiring old systems, some Soviet, and replacing them with western equipment from countries such as Sweden and Turkey and boosting existing modern fleets.
Exercise Dynamic Front 25 is part of a series of NATO exercises that will run until 26 November.
Milrem has delivered or is building a total of 200 Tracked Hybrid Modular Infantry System UGVs and has chosen Texelis as partner in its effort to develop a UGV.
The most recent nation to join NATO has joined other member nations in using the M3 system.
Slovakia is undergoing a radical refresh of its equipment, like many central and eastern European countries, and the arrival of new vehicles will form a substantial part of this.
In conversation... Patria’s Lauri Pauniaho talks to Shephard's Gerrard Cowan about how high mobility levels are essential for mortar systems in the face of modern counter-battery fire, and how a new platform-agnostic module can combine existing vehicles and mortar barrels into a cost-effective new weapon system.