The Download Content British Armed Forces has been released and is avaliable for download. This adds a new faction, new vehicles and new weapons.

Avaliable from Sprocket or Steam

Requirments: Operation Arrowheal or Arma 2 Combined Operations

* Arma 2: British Armed Forces Lite - all units, vehicles and weapons from Arma 2: British Armed Forces are included in this patch with lower quality textures and audio files. The full version of Arma 2: British Armed Forces with high resolution textures and packed with a new campaign and large selection of new single player missions is available for purchase, see www.arma2.com/baf for more information about the content of Arma 2: British Armed Forces.
* Engineer - Engineers have undergone some serious training and are now capable of repairing damaged vehicles and defusing mines.
* Artillery Computer - All indirect fire weapons can exploit the brand new artillery computer by selecting it in the Action Menu (default binding is the mouse wheel). The artillery computer initiates an interface where you can see your weapon, and the associated minimal and maximal ranges on the map.
* Numerous stability and functionality fixes and improvements.
* Reworked MP Session Browser and Mission Selector.
* See readme.txt file for more information about the fixes, improvements and new features coming with Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead version 1.54

Mirrors - http://www.arma2.com/supply/game-updates/folder.html

We have been informed by the BI forums that BIS have released the new beta patch build 72863 for Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead.
Leave your feedback about the patch in this topic on the BI forums. You can check the beta patch changes, report issues and vote tickets at the ArmA II community issue tracker (CIT). Please note: this patch is only for Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead!

Changelog:

[72851] New: GameSpy modhash key contains list of mods hashes and is used to check there are additional mods on server missing on client (yellow icon in UI).
[72787] New: Mods contents hashes are compared instead of mods lists when equal mods are required on server.
[72716] Fixed: Commandline -mod behavior, active Mods list in UI, ModLauncher UI dialog with better mods detection and handling.

How to stay up to date with the latest beta:
- Oktane has made an RSS Feed which will update every time a new build is released.
Make sure to check out the BI forums topic as some nice cool gadgets were made to work with this RSS.
- Yapab made an email notifier, fill in the form and make sure to allow the email to come through so it does not end up in your spam box!

Running Patches at the moment are extremely reccommended as they stop game stopping things like 'freezing' in ammo creates. However the official patch is due out when the British DLC content comes out later this week.

Wolffy has informed us in our forums that he has converted his famous mission Operation Golden Retriever from Arma 2 to Takistan. Its a complete rewrite though.

A UN sponsored AH-6X (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) deployed to track troop movements, has crashed in the northern deserts of Takistan. A reconnaissance unit has been deployed to locate the downed UAV. You will infiltrate using civilian vehicles and ensure our local contact and civilians in the region come to no harm. This mission is completely randomised - objective locations and defenses, squads sizes, motor patrols and weather will always vary. The mission should play out differently everytime. Enjoy!

Discussion here

First release of AAW for comined ops has been released.

For further info on how and where to download click here