Australia has chosen France’s DCNS Group to build 12 submarines for the Royal Australian Navy. The contract is worth $39 billion.
Monthly Archives: April 2016
Turkish M60T Sabra tank vs Kornet anti-tank missile
ISIL recently published a video showing an attack using a captured Kornet anti-tank missile against a Turkish M60t Sabra main battle tank near Mount Bashiqah, Iraq. A photo that was alleged to have been taken after the attack showed the tank surviving the missile hit. The post on Twitter has since been deleted.
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Photo: Twitter
Chinese man to be executed for selling secrets to foreign country
China has sentenced a man for execution after he was caught selling information on a shortwave encryption device to foreign spies.
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Weapons amnesty program saw Israelis surrendering grenades, rifles and missile launcher
The Israeli Defense Force is running a weapons amnesty program from Mar. 20 to Apr. 15 and so far citizens have surrendered more than 160 weapons and hundreds and thousands of ammunition.
U.S. Special Forces were given faulty holographic weapon sights
L-3 Communications’ subsidiary EOTech recently settled a lawsuit with the U.S. government over faulty holographic weapon sights.
By Bill Bradford (originally posted to Flickr as EOTech 512 Reticle) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons