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Breaking news :
The French Gendarmerie National selected the Sofram MPGV 4x4 APC for its armoured law enforcement capability. 
In a nutshell, this :

 
is replaced by that :

Breaking news :
The French Gendarmerie National selected the Sofram MPGV 4x4 APC for its armoured law enforcement capability. 
In a nutshell, this :

 
is replaced by that :

I’m closer to the third one.

Meanwhile Boxer ARV is tested in UK
 
and Rheinmetall showcases an exchange tool for Boxer modules
 

A bunch more pictures have been posted from ADEX
 
K2NO
 
Long Range Precise Attack System
 
Multipurpose Light Vehicle
 
I-UGV
 

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A few more pics.
 

 

 

I found this 

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I found this on the Solomon’s blog. 

 

Photos of the new SuperAV Land from Iveco. 

First time i see this type of cover for a tank used during exercises.

Another view of the GDLS OMFV candidate.

Hanwha display setup for AUSA 2021
 

 

The possible K2NO
 
Fitted with Trophy radars and Norwegian camo. It's said that this K2 will be spotted at the upcoming ADEX 2021 (along with the Desert K2 we've seen at expos in the past) so we may get more pictures and details then.
 

https://twitter.com/GD_LandSystems/status/1445498742581313541
 

Can't be that gormless if the Russians see some merit in the vehicle, as seen here: the BMP-KSh.
http://gurkhan.blogspot.com/2021/09/blog-post_27.html
 

 
I admire the IDF for how they repurpose vehicles, rather than the expense of building a new one.

Video about ghillie suit in Russian, but footage is interesting - a minigame "guess where 3 snipers are"
 

Stolen from otvaga, tankoff did a summary post on Arena systems.
 
   Arena (1993) patent:

   1 are countermunitions in their launchers, placed around turret. 2 is radar station on top of the turret.
 
 
   Arena-M APS with correctable trajectory countermunitions:

   Compared to previous version much less countermunitions and launchers are used, subsystems are more compact. Less weight, statistically less vulnerable to fragmentation damage.
 
 
   Countermunition schematics. CM is connected to launcher with a wire, BTW.

 
 
   Patent for BMP-3 equipped with Arena, pic showing possible use of APS as a system to automatically turn turret of AFV in the direction from which AFV was shot at.

 
   Looks like Arena was offered to Germans in 90s. Pics from Wehrtechnisches Symposium, 1995.

 
 
   One of first article about Arena, 1996.

 
 
   2012 - model of Arena-M (or Arena with correctable countermunitions) was shown.

 
   At RAE-2013 T-72 with shown with similar system, but with some additional changes.

 
 
   Arena-E with correctable countermunitions, video by KBM.
 
50m detection range, minimal reaction time - 0.04s, same direction is covered by at least 2 countermunitions, can intercept incoming projectiles with speeds of 70 to 1000 m/s. Can work of 8 hours without stops, weight - up to 900kg.
   Laser sensors (same as on Shtora) can be part of Arena. APS can be intergrated into BMS.
 

   Countermunition launch. Small holes just under cap/cover probably are impulse jets to rotate countermunition after launch.
 

   Upper schematics proably shows those impulse jets.
 

   Launch.
 
 
   Question if it is actually capable of intercepting top attack threats in configurations shown to public is still open. Max detection range is 50 meters, but how much radars can see "up" is question that i don't know answer for. Vertically aimed launchers suggest that at least ATGM that "overfly" target (like Bill 2 or TOW-2B) are covered by modernised system. Original Arena (at least in 1995 config) was not capable of intercepting overfly ATGMs.   
   Another question without answer is how much "correction" measures can change facing of countermunition. 
 
   Against top attack threats there were ideas to place CMs nearly horizontaly and aim them upwards.

 

The Italian Armored Infantry Combat System from both Iveco and Oto-Melara.