This year, it was announced that the British Army is facing a “modernisation challenge” as it looks to balance buying new equipment with upgrading its legacy fleet. A part of this is to continue with plans to update the capabilities of legacy vehicles Warrior and Challenger 2.

Building on a common platform – the General Dynamics Ajax – will soon form a key part of the British Army’s mounted potential and deliver what GD calls “best-in-class protection and survivability, reliability and mobility and all-weather Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Recognition (ISTAR) capabilities”.

SMi Group have recently updated the brochure for the 5^th Annual Future Armoured Vehicles Situational Awareness Conference, now taking place on 2-3 September 2020 at the Copthorne Tara Hotel in London, UK.

With over 1,400 units built, Rheinmetall’s 6x6 Fuchs/Fox armoured transport vehicle is one of the world’s most widely used tactical wheeled vehicles, having accumulated enormous operational experience. The armed forces of numerous nations deploy multiple variants of the Fuchs/Fox, which, among other things, can be variously configured as an armoured personnel carrier, a command post, a field ambulance or for a mobile CBRN reconnaissance role.
 

After careful consideration, SMi Group have decided to postpone the 5th Annual Future Armoured Vehicles Situational Awareness and 3rd Annual Military Robotics and Autonomous Systems Conferences in London, UK, which was originally scheduled to take place on the 1^st-2^nd April 2020.

This year's Future Armoured Vehicles Situational Awareness conference, taking place on the 1^st-2^nd April 2020 in London, will provide a perfect platform to network, exchange novel solutions and consolidate current strategy. The two-day event is the ideal platform for both new and established stake holders involved in C2, C4i, sensors, optronics and vehicle architecture.

Last year, the German defence company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) secured a contract in December to provide 44 new Leopard 2A7+ tanks and 24 new PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzers to the Hungarian Armed Forces.

Finland and Latvia have agreed on a joint development programme for sustained army mobility enhancement to which Patria is to deliver a 6x6 vehicle chassis platform. This joint programme aims at development of a common armoured wheeled vehicle system. The programme is also open for other countries by mutual consent of Finland and Latvia. In case the development will lead to actual vehicle system procurements in the future, the common system will enhance mobility, cost-efficiency, interoperability and security of supply of the armies in both countries. 
 

SMi Group’s 5^th Annual Future Armoured Vehicles Situational Awareness Conference, taking place on the 1^st and 2^nd April 2020 in London, UK, is the leading conference for armoured vehicle experts focused on C2, C4i, sensors and optronics.

The Ministers of Defence of Estonia and Latvia and the Permanent Secretary of the Finnish Ministry of Defence have on 17 December 2019 signed a trilateral Letter of Intent. 
 

SMi Group’s 5^th Annual Future Armoured Vehicles Situational Awareness Conference will be held on the 1^st and 2^nd April 2020, in London. The event provides a great opportunity to collaborate with technical leads, platform managers and programme directors to share their insights on the latest systems and sub-systems, providing greater awareness of existing capabilities and future requirements.

KREUZLINGEN, Switzerland --- General Dynamics European Land Systems-Mowag announced today that it signed a contract with armasuisse on November 18th, 2019, for the delivery of 100 protected EAGLE 6x6 reconnaissance vehicles for the Swiss Army.
 

SMi Group’s 5^th Annual Future Armoured Vehicles Situational Awareness Conference will commence on the 1^st and 2^nd April 2020, in London. The conference will delve deeper into the role of industry, inviting technical leads, platform managers and programme directors to share their insights on the latest systems and sub-systems, providing greater awareness of existing capabilities and future requirements.

The U.S. Army has awarded a contract valued at USD 11 million (roughly EUR 10 million) to the team of Rheinmetall Protection Systems and Unified Business Technologies (UBT) for significant testing of the StrikeShield Active Protection System to begin in October 2020 at Redstone Test Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
 

SMi reports: The agenda has been released for the upcoming Future Armoured Vehicles Situational Awareness Conference, taking place in London in April 2020. In an increasingly complex and congested digital battlespace, the need to provide near real-time information on the whereabouts of an adversary’s location and intent, using enhanced situational awareness capabilities, is vital in aiding armoured units to respond quickly to incoming threats. It is therefore imperative for defence forces to have a greater understanding of the capabilities available, to enhance both combat effectiveness and the survivability of the vehicle.

MUNICH --- Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) celebrates 40 years of Leopard 2. In autumn 1979, the Bundeswehr introduced the first system to uniquely combine the combat value criteria of firepower, mobility, protection and commandability.