Articles by Esteban Vidal

The C90 family of grenade launchers, designed, produced and constantly improved for decades by the Spanish company Instalaza, has been exported to almost forty countries, being used successfully on numerous occasions, the most recent in the Ukrainian war. For a few years now, a new system, known as CS90, has been added to the variants in the catalogue, both single-use and reusable. It has been expressly designed to be used from closed areas, thus responding to the demands posed by urban combat, which is increasingly important, as Ukraine has once again demonstrated. Furthermore, an evolution is in development that takes the range up to 600 meters, thus partly filling the gap between traditional grenade launchers and missiles such as the famous NLAW, at a cost that is a fraction of that of the latter. The war in Ukraine, and before that the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, [Keep reading…]

By now, all our readers know what the concept of "predictive maintenance" encompasses and what advantages it offers over traditional or reactive maintenance. The Spanish company EM&E (Escribano Mechanical & Engineering) intends to go one step further with its weapons stations, adding to this embedded learning and supervision, which will allow those in charge of carrying out first and second echelon maintenance and repairs. can carry out tasks until now reserved for the upper echelons. A project initiated after a proposal from the MALE (Army Logistics Support Command) and whose success will be key for the future Technical Life Cycle Support Office (OTACV) of the VCR 8×8 Program. During the Cold War, the presence of tens of thousands of Warsaw Pact tanks was one of the main threats to which member states of the Warsaw Pact [Keep reading…]