U.K. F-35 vid

Super AV 8x8 for the Italian Amphibious Brigade.

via Defense Aerospace.

Iveco-Oto Melara will also exhibit the VBA, a combination of the SUPERAV of Iveco D.V. and the HITFIST OWS weapon station turret of Oto Melara, developed to match the requirements of the new Italian Amphibious Brigade. With outstanding mobility on land and in the water and air-transportability in a C130, the VBA provides an optimum blend of tactical, operational and strategic mobility. Its HITFIST OWS weapon station incorporates the latest technologies in the fields of electronics, signature and Man Machine Interface (MMI) with outstanding performances in terms of lethality, survivability and fightability.

Those sneaky Italians!

Not only did they leverage USMC requirements for a Marine Personnel Carrier into getting themselves a new vehicle for their Amphibious Brigade, but they will also gain a new vehicle for the export market (to compete against the Mowag Piranha, Patria AMV and Terrex).

Absolutely brilliant.

This vid is an instant hard on!

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Sgt. Luke McNally, of Marlton, N.J., yells orders to his Marines during a live-fire exercise. The 27-year-old squad leader with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, led his squad of Marines through the burning fields and smoke-filled air to the end of the range.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Marco Mancha)

Star Wars Weapons coming to a ship near you!

So cool.

First the bad guys are zooming toward your amphib at 40 knots shouting Allah Akbar....

Next thing they know their engine blows up and the skin is burning off their backs....

Ain't Star Wars at sea cool?

Sea-Air Briefs. F/A-18 & V-22.

Massive Hat tip to THINK DEFENCE.  Check out his blog!

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Cpl. Enrique Torres (right), a squad leader with 1st Platoon, Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, and a 21-year-old native of Alvarado, Texas, helps Lance Cpl. Joseph Hevia, a rifleman and 20-year-old native of Windsor, Calif., climb onto a roof while searching a compound with Afghan policemen during Operation Zema Parma Sar Tera (Don’t Tread On Me) here, April 14, 2012. Afghan National Security Forces and ‘America’s Battalion’ Marines are conducting a variety of missions throughout Helmand province’s Garmsir district ahead of the annual fighting season surrounding the harvest of illicit poppy crops.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Reece Lodder)

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