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Kazakhstan Eyeing To Sell Armoured Vehicles To Azerbaijan

Kazakhstan Paramount Engineering (KPE), a joint-venture between state-owned Kazakhstan Engineering and South Africas private defence supplier Paramount Group, is keen to commence exporting its Marauder armoured vehicles to Azerbaijan. The Paramount Marauder vehicle known “Arlans” is the first vehicle rolled out of KPEs production line in August 2016,

Iran Likely To Buy Russian Orion-20 Amphibious Vehicles

Iran is keen to buy Russia's upgraded Orion-20 amphibious vehicles that can land and take off on water and ice, using the lift generated by the ground effect of its large wings when close to the surface of the water. The Orion-20 has maximum speed of 180 km/h and can haul one ton of cargo, plus 12 passengers

Russian New-Gen Missiles To Have Active Homing Heads, Inertial Guidance Systems

Lockheed Martin Wins $1.6B US Army Contract For Additional Q-53 Counterfire Radars

The US Army has ordered additional AN/TPQ-53 counterfire radar systems under a $1.6 billion order-dependent contract awarded to Lockheed Martin

Russia To Deploy Unified Missiles For Poliment-Redut Shipborne, S-350 Vityaz Air Defense...

Russia has plans to deploy unified missiles for Poliment-Redut shipborne air defense systems and land-based S-350 Vityaz air defense mid-range systems. Poliment-Redut is derived from the land-based Vityaz air defense system, which uses the 9M96 medium-range air defense missile,

Rostec Likely To Launch Tank Ammo Production In Indonesia

Russian Rostecs subsidiary, Techmash is considering licensed production of ammunition in Indonesia. Techmash is currently considering the production of ammunition for heavy armored vehicles purchased in the Russian Federation, particularly of the 30 mm and 100 mm caliber artillery shells, Sergey Abramov, Industrial director of Rostec weapons cluster, commenting on the cluster strategy adopted in the beginning of April 2017 said

UN To Cut Costs On Flight Logistics

The United Nations has planned to reduce fleets, limiting passenger movement to essential needs and cutting the number of non-mission passengers traveling on UN flights, and reducing the number of special flights in a move to cut costs on air assets in its missions. Secretary-General António Guterres today launched an initiative to boost efficiency of United Nations planes and flights, as it was revealed that the Organization spent close to $750 million from 2015 to 2016 on air assets in its peacekeeping and political missions

Nigerian Ports Authority To Buy Nine Patrol Boats For $4 Million

Nigeria will order nine patrol boats in 2017 to patrol harbours and waterways for $4 million. The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has allotted a defense budget of N233

Kalashnikov's AK-12, AK-15 Field Tests To End In July

Russia's Kalashnikov Concern will conclude field tests of fifth-generation AK-12 and AK-15 assault rifles by end of June. "Military trials of AK-12 and AK-15 will be completed in the second quarter of 2017," Abramov, head of Rostec's armaments cluster, was quoted as saying by

South Korea Develops New Artillery Detection Radar To Counter North

South Korea has developed new mobile artillery locating radar system to counter Norths threats. The new counter-artillery detection radar-II worth approximately 54 billion won (US$47