The Pentagon has announced that the NASAMS air defense system (ADS) will be delivered to Ukraine over the next 2-3 months while the German-made Iris-T will be produced over the next few weeks. “In the field of air defense, where support is primarily requested, we made sure that the highly modern Iris-T systems were not delivered to another country, but that they were delivered to Ukraine
The “Stop F-35” initiative that opposes the Swiss governments plan to acquire 36 new F-35 Lightning II fighters from Americas Lockheed Martin handed over 103,000 certified signatures to the Federal Chancellery on August 16, to challenge the deal. Swiss parliament in 2019 approved a nearly $6 billion) deal to buy the jets after it evaluated Boeings Super Hornet, Dassault Rafale and Airbus Eurofighter Typhoon
Japan is working on increasing the range of ground-launched Type-12 standoff missiles from 200km to more than 1,000km, putting the Chinese and North Korean coasts within striking distance. The envisioned weapons would also be ship- and air- launch capable
Russias United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) is setting up new facilities to test systems and equipment of the Su-57 stealth jet, to ramp up production of the aircraft. The government-owned Rostec said the expansion of Komsomolsk-on-Amur (KnAAZ) involves the construction of a number of new facilities - a boathouse for testing on-board radio-electronic equipment, a fuel box and a motor test station
The money collected from Ukrainians to buy Bayraktar TB2 drones has been utilized to acquire high-technology satellite from Finnish company ICEYE. Serhiy Prytula Charitable Foundation on June 22 announced a fundraiser among Ukrainian citizens to purchase Bayraktar drones
Russian specialists are carefully studying foreign military equipment such as M777 howitzers and HIMARS multiple rocket launchers captured in Ukraine to order to develop means to ‘suppress them. “Of course, both our science and our industry are dealing with trophy weapons
Rosoboronexport, part of Russias state-owned Rostec, won contracts worth over $14.5 billion combined at the ongoing Army 2022 Forum
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South Korea plans to relocate its Daegu air base to the nearby area of Uiseong and Gunwi, both in North Gyeongsang Province, by 2030 in a $8.6 billion (11
AeroVironment has acquired Planck Aerosystems, Inc. (“Planck”), a provider of advanced unmanned aircraft navigation solutions