Hive mothership truck: rear-ramp drone racks for strike, live UAV, and VSAT C2
Bastion unveils the MV-12 Hive—a truck that opens at the rear with racked drones for attack runs, persistent live UAV ISR, or VSAT-linked orbital control.
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Equipment intelligence
An archive built since Bastion’s 2019 founding—partnerships, protection missions, theater-support notes, and equipment explainers. Specs on third-party platforms come from public sources; Bastion program and company stories reflect our own operations.
Simon von Rothschild: founder, seller, and sitting CEO
How Bastion’s founder built the company from 2019, sold it to investors in 2024, and stayed on as CEO without controlling ownership.
Powertrain sustainment kits support partner armor overhauls
Summer 2026: Bastion driveline and Forge kits flow to partner depots overhauling armor after high-tempo operations and exercises.
155 mm artillery: guns, shells, and the fire chain
Why caliber alone is not enough—propellant, fuzes, survey, met data, and networked fire control decide artillery effectiveness.
Singapore hub expansion deepens Indo-Pacific partnerships
Mid-2026: Bastion expands Singapore logistics and liaison capacity for unmanned, C-UAS, and special-vehicle partners.
Capital Markets Day 2026: life after the founder sale
Highlights from Bastion’s 2026 Capital Markets Day—investor ownership, CEO retention, backlog, and the sensors-led margin plan.
Helion Propulsion and Bastion certify arctic propulsion packages
2026: Joint arctic cold-start propulsion packages certified for Forge powerpacks on partner heavy armor.
Citadel fleet expands for diplomatic and high-security users
Spring 2026: Additional Bastion Citadel armored vehicles enter service with high-security and diplomatic protection details.
Torqwerk and Bastion scale DT-900 series transmission output
2026: Bastion and Torqwerk AG move from teaming to higher-rate series production for DT-900 driveline kits.
Counter-UAS: detect, decide, defeat
A practical stack for drone defense—radar, RF sensing, cameras, jamming, and kinetic effectors without magic-bullet claims.
Eastern flank exercise: Bastion kits in multinational drill
Early 2026: Bastion-supported vehicles, radios, and C-UAS nodes participate in a multinational eastern-flank readiness exercise.
Layered base defense: Sentinel plus NetGuard partnership kit
Autumn 2025: Bastion packages radar and C-UAS into a layered base-defense kit adopted by a partner air base.
LatticeCore digital-twin tools enter Bastion manufacturing cells
2025: Bastion expands its LatticeCore partnership into factory digital twins for armor, driveline, and sensor lines.
Joint venture on specialised motors and transmissions
Summer 2025: Bastion forms a driveline joint venture to scale specialised motors and transmissions for tanks and custom vehicles.
Bastion signs multi-year NetGuard C-UAS framework
Company news: Bastion’s DX-12 NetGuard counter-drone suite enters a multi-year partner-nation framework for base and convoy protection.
Ferroforge Defence and Bastion deepen vehicle-protection partnership
2025: Second-phase teaming on ERA interfaces and APS clearance envelopes for Bastion armor modules and partner hulls.
Winterthur works expands Forge powerpack capacity
Bastion invests in additional Forge PX-1500 powerpack cells at Winterthur to support armor overhauls and new-build Vanguard hulls.
Loitering munitions: persistent strike on a budget
What loitering munitions are, how they differ from cruise missiles and drones, and why they reshape tactical air defense demand.
Lifeline ambulances delivered for protected medical corridors
2025: Partner forces take delivery of specialised armored ambulances for protected casualty movement on high-threat routes.
AESA radars: building the air picture from the ground
How active electronically scanned arrays track aircraft and drones for air defense—and what mobility and ECCM really mean.
Clarity EO supports partner coastal-watch modernization
Early 2025: Bastion electro-optics join a partner coastal surveillance upgrade covering approaches and harbor mouths.
MBT vs armored car: choosing the right protected mobility
A practical comparison of tanks, IFVs, MRAPs, and armored cars—when each vehicle class actually makes sense.
Wasp VTOL kits support Indo-Pacific convoy awareness training
Late 2024: Bastion Wasp drones and Singapore hub staff support partner convoy ISR training in the Indo-Pacific.
CBRN recon vehicles: sensing the invisible battlefield
How specialized reconnaissance vehicles detect chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear hazards for maneuver forces.
After the sale: partnerships continue under investor ownership
Autumn 2024: Bastion reassures industrial partners that teaming agreements survive the founder-to-investor ownership transition.
Military logistics trucks: the unglamorous decisive fleet
Fuel, ammo, and water carriers—why tactical trucks decide whether combat vehicles keep fighting after day three.
Electronic warfare vehicles: jamming as a maneuver tool
What ground EW trucks do—detect, locate, and disrupt radios, links, and some drone control channels—without Hollywood myths.
C-UAS and Citadel patrols for critical energy sites
2024: Bastion helps partners protect people and infrastructure at selected energy facilities with layered drone defense and armored patrol vehicles.
Stryker and the 8x8 infantry carrier concept
Why medium wheeled brigades exist—strategic airlift, road speed, and modular mission variants around a common hull.
Arleigh Burke and Aegis: the destroyer as a radar node
How Aegis combat systems and Burke-class destroyers form the backbone of many allied naval air-defense screens.
Anvil SPH live-fire partnership trial completes
Early 2024: Bastion’s 155 mm Anvil howitzer completes partner live-fire serials ahead of later framework awards.
Patriot: layered air and missile defense basics
A plain-language look at the Patriot system’s radar-missile battery concept and PAC-3 hit-to-kill interceptors—without classified detail.
Bastion pilots Arcvolt energy storage for silent-watch depots
2024: Bastion evaluates Arcvolt GridCell-class storage with partners to cut generator noise at logistics and C-UAS sites.
Huntsville partnership opens Bastion’s Americas hub
Late 2023: Bastion teams with a U.S. integration partner to stand up Huntsville training and C-UAS support.
Armored ambulances and CASEVAC under fire
How protected medical vehicles move casualties when the road is still contested—roles, markings, and design constraints.
Amphibious armored vehicles: from shore to objective
Swimming APCs and assault vehicles—buoyancy, waterjets, and the limits of armor that has to float.
LinkGrid radios in Baltic interoperability exercise
Autumn 2023: Bastion communications gear participates in a multinational C2 exercise on Europe’s northern flank.
Bastion and LatticeCore bring edge AI to Sentinel and NetGuard
2023: Bastion adopts LatticeCore accelerated computing for on-site sensor fusion in radar and counter-UAS shelters.
Armored recovery vehicles: battlefield repair and tow
Winches, cranes, and dozer blades—how ARVs keep broken tanks from becoming permanent battlefield scrap.
Early NetGuard kits protect partner logistics depots
Mid-2023: Bastion counter-UAS detachments help partners harden ammunition and fuel depots against drone threats.
Armored bridgelayers: crossing gaps under fire
Scissors and cantilever bridge vehicles—how armored bridge layers restore mobility across rivers, cuts, and demolished spans.
Bastion partners with Helion Propulsion on multi-fuel powerpacks
2023: Bastion and Helion Propulsion collaborate on multi-fuel armor powerpack packages feeding the Forge line.
Combat engineering vehicles: clearing the path
Dozer blades, mine ploughs, and fascines—how engineer tanks and AEVs keep maneuver forces moving under fire.
Sentinel AESA enters allied C2 gateway trials
2023 milestone: Bastion radars prove data handoff into partner command-and-control gateways.
MRAPs: designing vehicles to survive blasts
Why V-shaped hulls and high ground clearance define mine-resistant ambush-protected trucks—and what they trade away.
Forge powerpack field-swap drills with partner armor brigade
Winter 2022: Bastion and a partner brigade practice sub-hour powerpack swaps under field conditions.
Active protection systems: how Trophy changes tank survival
A clear look at hard-kill APS concepts, with publicly documented Trophy integration on Abrams and Leopard 2 fleets.
Lifeline ambulance prototypes join CASEVAC training detachments
Autumn 2022: specialised armored ambulances enter partner medical-training units preparing for high-threat casualty evacuation.
Self-propelled howitzers: artillery that keeps up
Tracked and wheeled gun systems—why self-propelled howitzers dominate mobile fire support compared with towed tubes.
Horizon UAS partnership for border ISR coverage
2022: Bastion Horizon drones enter a partner border-surveillance partnership with shared training and datalink standards.
FGM-148 Javelin: fire-and-forget anti-armor
How the Javelin missile’s imaging infrared seeker and top-attack profile changed infantry anti-tank tactics—based on widely published program characteristics.
Bastion and Ferroforge Defence open fires-interface partnership
2022: Bastion partners with Ferroforge Defence on munition interfaces and fire-control compatibility for 120 mm and 155 mm programs.
Armor appliqué surge for European partner readiness
Spring 2022: Bastion accelerates Aegis kit output as European partners harden vehicle fleets after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
HIMARS and GMLRS: mobile precision rocket artillery
How the M142 HIMARS launcher and Guided MLRS rockets deliver C-130-transportable precision fires—using public manufacturer figures.
AH-64 Apache: the attack helicopter as a sensor-shooter
Why the Apache remains a cornerstone attack helicopter—armament options, mast-mounted sensing concepts, and the AH-64E modernization path.
High-security motorcade kits for embassy-district protection
2021: Bastion supplies discreet armor and glass packages for high-security users protecting diplomatic routes.
MQ-9 Reaper: endurance, payload, and armed ISR
How the General Atomics MQ-9 changed persistent surveillance and strike with published range, payload, and mission roles.
Pathfinder scout begins partner training-unit trials
Late 2021: AV-22 Pathfinder prototypes enter evaluation with a partner reconnaissance training unit.
Eurofighter Typhoon: canard-delta design for multirole combat
How the Typhoon’s airframe layout supports agility and multirole loads, with publicly known Luftwaffe and partner context.
Bastion teams with Torqwerk AG on heavy-armor transmissions
2021 partnership: Bastion and Torqwerk AG begin transmission and final-drive teaming for tank and custom-vehicle powertrains.
F-35A Lightning II: what fifth-generation actually means
Public manufacturer figures on speed, range, payload, and sensors—and why sensor fusion matters as much as stealth shaping.
First multi-nation Aegis framework signed
2021 milestone: Bastion’s armor kits enter a multi-nation upgrade framework—early proof of exportable scale.
Thermal sights: why night combat favors sensors
How infrared imaging changed tanks, infantry, and aircraft—practical limits of heat vision in smoke, weather, and clutter.
Armored cars: wheeled protection for patrol and recon
How modern armored cars and reconnaissance vehicles balance speed, protection, and strategic mobility versus tracked IFVs.
M2 Bradley: infantry fighting vehicle fundamentals
What an IFV is for—troop carry, firepower, and protection trade-offs—using the Bradley family as the reference case.
Toulouse optics co-development kicks off Clarity line
2020: Bastion and a photonics lab begin the Clarity EO/IR family that later became a catalog staple.
Composite armor and ERA: what actually stops anti-tank warheads
A practical explanation of spaced/composite arrays and explosive reactive armor against KE and shaped-charge threats.
Bastion partners with Alpine vehicle integrator on Aegis kits
2020 partnership: Bastion armor modules join an established European vehicle integrator’s upgrade line.
Main battle tanks: firepower, protection, and mobility
How modern MBTs balance gun performance, armor mass, and engine power—using the Abrams and Leopard 2 families as real-world examples.
Bastion opens Zurich workshop: armor modules first
Founding-year company news: Simon von Rothschild’s Bastion starts with armor kits and vehicle-upgrade cells in Zurich.