The Leopard 2 is one of the world’s most common main battle tanks,
Here s What You Need To Remember: The Leopard 2A6 is the most “traditional” upgrade, following the naming convention and general trend of the earlier 2A(X) series of upgrades. It builds upon the 2A5 upgrade, which introduced major changes to the turret design, including the distinctive “Wedge” turret.
The Leopard 2 is one of the world’s most common main battle tanks, used by militaries on four continents. As such, the market for upgrades that bring the older versions up to the latest standards of protection and lethality is large. The primary player here is Krauss-Maffei Wegman, the original designer of the Leopard 2, who markets a variety of kits and new versions of the Leopard 2.
Coincidence? These World’s Best Armies Use These 5 Rifles
While tanks, planes and artillery may have a larger effect on the battlefield, the infantryman’s individual rifle is still a critical part of any military.
Here s What You Need To Remember: From Venezuela to Syria to India, the AK-103 has proven a choice update to all users of the venerable AK-47 and AKM. New barrels provide greater accuracy and the “74”-style muzzle brake tames the recoil and decreases muzzle flash relative to the older AKs.
While tanks, planes and artillery may have a larger effect on the battlefield, the infantryman’s individual rifle is still a critical part of any military. Here are five “families” of weapons that may be considered to be the best in the world, and why.
Do China s Super-Quiet Subs Spell the End of U.S. Navy Superiority?
If American hiders remain quiet enough to evade Chinese finders, they hold the advantage of stealth. If not.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The PLA Navy may be poised to overcome a technological and tactical defect that has plagued it since its founding.
Word has it that China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy) has staged a breakthrough in submarine propulsion. At any rate, that’s the word from marine engineer Rear Admiral Ma Weiming, a specialist in electromagnetic systems. Admiral Ma recently reported on state-run CCTV that shipwrights are installing shaftless rim-driven pumpjets in China’s “next-generation nuclear submarines,” meaning attack or ballistic-missile boats. (Click here for a layman’s description of pumpjet technology.) Ma crowed that Chinese engineers are “now way ahead of the United States, which has also been developing similar technology.”
Here s What You Need To Remember: Although Pyongyang profited from playing one patron against the other, its attack on the Pueblo was probably primarily motivated by the failure of its assassination plot in South Korea. Anticipating possible attacks from South Korea or the United, it may have seen taking the
Pueblo as a preemptive move in an imminent conflict, or as a means to gain leverage over Washington and sow dissension between the United States and South Korea.
A U.S. Army light freighter launched during World War II, the fifty-four-meter-long
Pueblo had been recommissioned by the Navy in 1966s to serve as an “environmental research ship,” with two civilian oceanographers on board. This was a flimsy cover for the truth: the