Russia is suspected of buying sighting telescopes, cameras and night-vision sights it previously exported to Myanmar and India, for use on its tanks and missiles.
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The construction of the third new generation submarine related to the U212NFS (Near Future Submarine) program for the Italian Navy has received parliamentary approval and will now follow the standard administrative procedure, shipbuilder Fincantieri announced today. The programme, which includes two vessels contracted in 2021, as well as the creation of a Training Center, is led by OCCAR (Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en matière dArmement, the international organization for joint armament cooperation)
Lockheed Martin signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S
The Ukrainian military tested its Germany-built Leopard 2 battles tanks against captured Soviet T-62s. Ukrainian serviceman Andrii Nikonorov
The Defense Science Research Institute, part of South Koreas Agency for Defense Development (ADD) has transformed domestic carbon fiber into advanced aerospace composite material for use on drones. The development of the material began in 2020
Patria will equip eight Swedish mortar ships with NEMO Navy turreted 120 mm systems under a new contract signed between the two parties. Patria is delivering its mortar system to the Swedish armed forces for the first time as a subcontractor to Swede Ship Marine AB
United Aircraft Corporations (UAC) Irkut has collaborated with South Russian State Polytechnic University. N
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems FAST Labs research and development organization $7 million for the Oversight autonomous space-based target custody program. Traditional space intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) collection can be siloed, labor intensive, and unable to dynamically re-evaluate quickly enough to take advantage of new space systems
Russia today announced that it had entered into an agreement with it ally Belarus, to store tactical nuclear weapons. These non-strategic nuclear weapons are meant to be launched from the Iskander surface-to-surface missile which has a range of 500 km besides the Su-25 aircraft whose combat radius is 357 km