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Congress reviews reserve forces equipment needs
Senior 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 [...]
US withdraws military equipment through Pakistan
The 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 [...]
MOD Reveals £160 Billion Plan to Equip Armed Forces
The 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 [...]
Soldiers at NIE run network equipment through life-like combat scenarios
Testing networked equipment in a lab ensures functionality, but only a field evaluation with Soldiers ensures it will work as designers intended in an operating environment. At Fort Bliss, Texas, and on its training ranges just north of the border in New Mexico, Soldiers with the 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, completed Network Integration Evaluation [...]
Serbia wants to sell military equipment to Pakistan
Serbia wants to conclude an agreement with Pakistan that would enable the export of its military equipment to the Asian country, Defence Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Monday. “What we can offer and what they are interested in are armored vehicles, large caliber ammunition, assault rifles and night-vision equipment,” Vucic said after the meeting with his [...]
New Anti-Laser Eyewear for Pilots Tested
A new type of laser eye protection (LEP) for pilots is being tested by the Ministry of Defence. The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has been working with Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) to evaluate and assess the specially designed spectacles. The LEPs can filter out different wavelengths of light from the spectrum, including [...]
Acquisition and Logistics Lessons from A Decade Of War
There has been much written about the lessons learned from recent conflicts regarding how U.S. forces need to be organized, trained and equipped. Much less has been written about the critical lessons learned regarding the needed reforms for the Pentagon’s acquisition and logistics systems. One major lesson of the past decade of conflict is that [...]
Depot sustains military’s electro optics/night vision equipment
Well-trained and skilled depot employees maintain and support the military’s vast array of electro-optics/night vision, EO/NV, systems here and around the globe. Technicians overhaul, repair, modify, test and install EO/NV systems for all branches of the service and foreign military service, or FMS, customers. Tobyhanna’s capability extends beyond night vision devices and scopes to include [...]
Russian Army Test Future Soldier Tech
The Russian Army is testing a future high-tech soldier equipment system and plans to stage exercises with the equipment as part of state trials, Defense Ministry ground forces spokesman Lt. Col. Nikolai Donyushkin said on Wednesday. “Soldiers have started intensive trials of elements of the equipment, including for riflemen, scouts, mechanic-drivers, as part of military [...]
