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Lockheed Martin said it completed building a single satellite that can perform both military and civilian missions and operate in low, medium and geosynchronous orbits. The first Lockheed Martin LM 400, a flexible, mid-sized satellite customizable for military, civil or commercial users, rolled off the companys digital factory production line and is advancing toward its planned 2023 launch
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Estonia is providing Ukraine with dozens of 155mm FH-70 and 122mm D-30 howitzers in its latest fund that runs into millions of euros, and has applied for restoring the equipment and stocks from the European Peace Facility. Estonia and the United Kingdom called together an international meeting where participating states presented their newest military aid packages for Ukraine, which also include a significant amount of heavy weapons
Ukraine is set to welcome its most advanced air defense system (ADS) as Italy and France, which jointly manufacture the SAMP-T air defense system (ADS) are preparing to ship the first such system to Kyiv. “In cooperation with France, we are finalizing the shipment of SAMP/T, and in addition, other actions are planned that we do not disclose,” Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said during an interview with local newspaper
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Japan started constructing a Self-Defense Forces base on uninhabited Mage Island in southwestern Kagoshima prefecture on Thursday. According to an environmental assessment report made public earlier today, this four-year project in the 8 Sqkm Island will include building runways and ammunition storage facilities
Canada has agreed to hand over NASAMS air defence systems to Ukraine free of cost, taking the total number of such systems being pledged to the war-torn country to nine. “I spoke with Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov this morning and heard it directly: air defence systems are Ukraines top priority
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As the Biden Administration tightens restrictions on the export of high-performance chips to Beijing, China's Xiangteng Company announced the development of 6 chip products, including a control protocol processing SiP chip, a dual-channel high-speed isolator chip, two discrete interface chips, and two 429 chips.The six new chips incuding 17 'finalized' in 2022, can be widely used in aviation, aerospace, ships, weapons and other fields, and have broad market prospects and commercial value, Xiangteng Company a part of the of the Aviation Industry Computing Institute said in a statement carried by Aviation Industries Corporation of China