Ocean Shipyard has signed a memorandum with the State Defense Concern of the Republic of Turkey on joint activities to implement a project to build a series of corvettes (Milgem)for the Ukrainian Navy to implement the Military Framework Agreement signed in October 2020 during the meeting of the...
Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko has visited the Ulan-Ude Aircraft Plant, a subsidiary of the Russian Helicopters Group. Krivoruchko checked the production of the Kamov Ka-226T (NATO reporting name: Hoodlum) helicopter, various versions of the Mil Mi-8 (Hip), and the new...
Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Oppo plans to start production at the facility to be established in Istanbul and Kocaeli in the first month of the new year. The investment is approaching 50 million dollars. It was noted that the investment incentive certificate was received for the facility...
Indra will equip 23 Spanish NH90 helicopters with the maximum survival capability for 111 million euros
It will develop one of the most advanced threat alerters to date: fully digitized and with the ability to instantly cover the whole bandwidth
It will also implement its InShield DIRCM...
Saab has signed a contract with the French Armament General Directorate (DGA) for an upgrade and life extension of the French Air and Space Force’s mobile command and control systems, which feature Saab’s Giraffe AMB radar and command and control shelter.
This contract is part of the French...
Under the agreement signed with azerbaijan, BMC will deliver a total of 320 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses to Baku in 2021
https://www.ekonomist.com.tr/otomotiv/bmc-azerbaycana-320-otobus-ihracati-gerceklestirecek.html
Contract worth €41 million
The German Bundeswehr has contracted with Rheinmetall to supply it with additional heavy tractor trailers with a 70-tonne payload. Delivery of a further 24 unprotected heavy tractor trailers – dubbed the SaZgM 70t mil in German military parlance – is to take place in...
Patria AMVXP8x8 vehicles have now been sent from Finland to Japan for test purposes. These vehicles are part of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force’s project called the Next Wheeled Armored Vehicle operating under the Japanese Ministry of Defense. The vehicles will be handed over to the...
Saab has today, on Wednesday 16th of December, delivered the second submarine of Gotland-class to the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) after a Mid-life upgrade.
Saab has conducted a Mid-life upgrade of HMS Uppland. Taking all necessary measures to ensure the submarine's...
Russia’s SPRUT-SDM1 light amphibious tank has successfully completed another phase in a series of state tests which began in August 2020 and will last a year and a half.
According to the RIA Novosti news agency, which quotes Bekkhan Ozdoev, industrial director of the cluster of weapons at the...
South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has secured a KRW165 billion (USD151 million) contract to upgrade three more Chang Bogo (Type 209/1200)-class diesel-electric attack submarines operated by the Republic of Korea Navy (RoKN).
The Ministry of National Defense’s (MND’s)...
Twelve of the 18 Rafales to be procured by Greece will be former French Air Force aircraft. An initial six are expected to be operational by the end of 2021. (Dassault Aviation)
The Greek government’s Parliamentary Subcommittee for Defence Procurement agreed on 17 December to proceed with the...
Saudi Arabia cuts defence spending
Saudi Arabia will cut its defence budget for 2021 by 3.8% to SAR175 billion (USD46.62 billion), marking a continued decline in the country’s defence spending, according to budget documentation released on 16 December.
Overall government spending was reduced...
The US Army fired three M982A1 Excalibur weapons from its Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) prototype on 19 December, and after a rocky start the final round directly hit a target at a 70 km range.
For the past several years, the service has been looking at ways to close the field...