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Hanwha Defense Australia (HDA) has announced the site of a new military vehicle production facility near Melbourne that will build the country's on-order Huntsman family of vehicles. Hanwha Defense Australia plans to invest AUD170 million in...

Rheinmetall announced the unveiling of the Lynx 120 mechanised fire support vehicle in a press release on 18 February. The company said the vehicle uses a Lynx KF41 chassis and a scaleable large-calibre turret concept. Rheinmetall has unveil...

Rheinmetall announced the unveiling of the Lynx 120 mechanised fire support vehicle in a press release on 18 February. The company said the vehicle uses a Lynx KF41 chassis and a scaleable large-calibre turret concept. Rheinmetall has unveil...

"Rather than the usual story of shutting down a terrorist cell that was prolific in the early R6 games, Extraction instead pits the famous CTU team against a space parasite that’s threatening mainland America," Hamish writes in his Rainbow Six Extraction review.

The StrikeShield APS will be ‘mechanically integrated into hybrid armour tiles’ on the Lynx IFV. Rheinmetall Protection Systems CEO Dr Manfred Salk said: “We see huge benefits from hybrid designs. The effects that passive armour protects you from are standardised and well understood. “Hybrid designs are different. They allow us to do a much better job of dealing with new effects and threats, such as residual energy from a disabled rocket hitting the vehicle and deflagrating. “The comb...