Saturday, January 23, 2021

Turkish military industry to have showed their newest armored vehicles, MBT and SPG

 Turkish military industry to have showed their newest armored vehicles, MBT and SPG.

Yesterday the turkish high rank officials visited the BMC facilities. During the visit compani presented the nevest and upgraded armored vehicles.




Altay MBT

Upgraded Leopard-2,It's equipped with Altay MBT FCS and fitted with indigenous APS and LWS.







Firtina II






New wheeled IFV BMC TTZA fitted with ASELSAN Korhan turret.


Friday, January 22, 2021

Some more pictures of Chinese new 155mm SPH

Some more pictures of Chinese new 155mm SPH. A different chassis with seven road wheels on each side. Different turret geometry from the PLZ-05.

Previously we reported about this SPH New Chinese 155mm SPH






A destroyed TPLF's PHL-03 MLRS

Pictures show a destroyed TPLF's (Tigray People's Liberation Front) PHL-03 (Chinese clone of the BM-30 Smerch MLRS) and reloading vehicle somewhere in Tekeze area, Central Tigray (Via "Ethiopia Map")


The TPLF used this to fire rocket artillery at air bases in Bahir Dar and Asmara. It was likely destroyed by a drone strike.

The TPLF obviously acquired this after a huge chunk of the Northern Command defected. This is a very sophisticated weapon with guided rockets which only professionally trained soldiers can operate.



As we reported previously, Ethiopia got the Chinese AR2 300mm MRL.


Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Some details about Tempest’s cutting edge technology radar

ROME — Radar engineers on the Tempest fighter program have said they expect to break data-processing records. The secret, they explain, is all about miniaturization and going digital.



The sixth-generation jet — planned by the U.K., Sweden and Italy and set to enter service after 2030 — will bristle with new technology, from its weaponry and propulsion to a virtual cockpit projected inside the pilot’s helmet.

But the group set the bar high in October by announcing the fighter’s radar would process a quantity of data equivalent to nine hours of high-definition video — or the internet traffic of a medium-sized city — every second.

Few details were given to back up the claim, but now U.K.-based engineers with Italian firm Leonardo, who are working on the radar, have shared clues with Defense News.

Boosting performance will mean rethinking today’s electronically scanned radars, which have grids of small Transmit Receive Modules, or TRM, on the antenna, each generating an individual radar beam which can follow different targets or combine with others to create a larger beam.

The TRMs in the array are formed into groups, and the signals received by each group are fed to a receiver which digitalizes the data before passing it to the radar’s processor.

Due to their size, the receivers must be positioned back from the aircraft’s nose and accept the incoming analogue radar signal down coaxial cables, which incurs some data loss before the signal is digitalized.

To remedy that, Leonardo is working on miniaturizing the receivers so they can be moved up into the nose and integrated within the antenna, cutting out the need for a coaxial cable. The data emerging from the receiver must still travel to the processor, but by now it is digital and can flow down fiber-optic cables, reducing data loss.

“Miniaturized receivers can digitalize the signal within the antenna much earlier in the receive chain,” said chief engineer Tim Bungey.

That’s one step up from the new state-of-the-art European Common Radar System Mark 2 radar that BAE Systems and Leonardo have signed to deliver for RAF Eurofighters, which will use coaxial cables.

“Digitalizing the data closer to the array means more data can be received and transmitted, the data can be more flexibly manipulated, and there is more potential for using the radar as a multi-function sensor such as for data linking and for electronic warfare,” said Bungey.

There is also a second advantage to miniaturized receivers: Many more can be installed, meaning each one handles fewer TRMs.

“To improve performance and flexibility within the system, a key challenge is to divide the TRMs into more groups containing fewer TRMs, handled by more receivers,” said Bungey.

“By achieving that, together with supporting wider bandwidths, you can generate significantly more data, giving greater flexibility for beam steering and multi-function operation,” he added.

“We are aiming to increase the number of groups of TRMs, and therefore the number of receivers, beyond what will be offered by the MK2 radar for Eurofighter,” he added.

While the radar may push the envelope, Duncan McCrory, Leonardo’s Tempest chief engineer, said it would be a mistake to consider it as a stand-alone component.


For full article follow to the link Secrets of Tempest’s ground-breaking radar revealed

Delivering the new fighter jets to the Russian Air Forces in last decade



In the last decade, the Russian Air Forces received 567 new fighter jets, include 8 upgraded Su-27SM(3).

Patria Nemo 120 mm Mortar System on BvS10

A BvS10 fitted with Patria Nemo 120 mm Mortar System 

• Turret weight 1600 kg

• Turret bearing 1350 mm









Patria Nemo is a compact and flexible mortar system for the needs of modern warfare and crisis management, which call for mobility, protection and accuracy. Designed by the industry’s top professional, Patria, the lightweight system can be mounted on various platforms, enabling rapid fire support.

Turreted, remote-controlled 120 mm mortar system consists of weapon, loading device, turret, fire control system and ammunition storage, and is fully operational with a platform and ammunition.

Patria Nemo is suitable for many purposes. Thanks to its indirect and direct fire capability, as well as to its Multiple Rounds Simultaneous Impact (MRSI) capabilities, Patria Nemo can be used for self-defence and various indirect fire missions. Impressive fire support and rapid response with high crew protection.

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

The First detailed render of the new IVECO MTV (Medium Tactical Vehicle)

The First detailed render of the new IVECO MTV (Medium Tactical Vehicle), being developed by IVECO DV on behalf of the Netherlands MoD (internal code 12kN) for its own forces.



On 28 November, 2019, During the NIDV Exhibition Defence & Security, which took place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands Ministry of Defence signed the contract announced in September 2019 for the acquisition of a new 4×4 vehicle known as 12kN. The signing ceremony was attended by the Director of the Defence Material Organisation (DMO), Vice Admiral Arie Jan de Waard.

The contract includes the development and the provision of 1257 vehicles. As the name indicates, the vehicle will have a payload of around 12 kN, that is over 1,200 kg. It will be based on a chassis with a considerable ground clearance, to which different cabins will be fitted; it is unclear if the 12kN will have two chassis with different wheelbases, as it is the case i.e. for the LMV.

The 12kN will be available in many configurations, one of them is visible in the renders released by Ciro Nappi, a version with full-extended cabin. The 12kN will be employed not only by the Koninklijke Landmacht (Army), but also by the other services, Koninklijke Luchtmacht (Air Force), the Koninklijke Marine (Navy) and the Koninklijke Marechaussee (Gendarmerie), hence the high number of variants.

Iveco DV is currently hastily working on the vehicle development; the prototype should be ready by fall 2021, to start company trials by late that year, acceptance trials by the customer being scheduled for 2022, production to be launched thereafter.

The contract signed at the Rotterdam exhibition is short 357 vehicles compared to the number announced in September; these will be ordered with follow-on contracts, depending on budget availability.

Sunday, January 17, 2021

In Baku Preparations begin for construction of Patriotic War Victory Museum

Preparations have begun for the construction of the 2020 Patriotic War Memorial Complex and the Victory Museum in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku.

The facilities will be built inside a new park to be laid out on the free territory between Nobel Avenue, one of the main avenues of Baku, and the ‘White City’ boulevard.

The respective work has already begun. Military trophy captured from the Armenian side during the Patriotic War was also delivered to the territory.

As earlier reported, on December 3, 2020, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev signed an order on the creation of the Patriotic War Memorial Complex and the Victory Museum in the capital.