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During a ceremony held by Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami, the domestically made Aras-2 Tactical Vehicle and Ra’d (Thunder) Armored Personnel Carrier, were unveiled.
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On 9 August, the Indian Air Force successfully test-fired an Israeli-made Rafael IAI Spyder air defense missile from the Pokhran Test Range, India Today reports.
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According to video footage released on YouTube on August 10, 2019, by the national TV of Uzbekistan, "O'ZBEKISTON 24 HD", Turkish Company Nurol Makina has delivered 24 Ejder Yalcin 4x4 APCs (Armored Personnel Carrier) vehicles to the army of Uzbekistan.
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A newly-overhauled advanced radar system was unveiled By Iran on Saturday, August 10, 2019, and delivered to the Iranian Army's Air Defense Unit. The advanced radar system was unveiled at a ceremony attended by Chief of the Air Defense Force Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard, according to the Iranian press agency Mehr.
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The ability of Australia’s special forces to rapidly and covertly deal with security threats in the Indo-Pacific will be boosted with new hi-tech equipment, including drones, weapons and communications systems, under a $3 billion, 20-year program to cement their position as the region’s most potent fighting force, Ben Packham reports on The Australian.
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The first public appearance of the new Hunter tracked AFV (Armored Fighting Vehicle) of Singapore Army on August 9, 2019, during the National Day military parade. The Hunter Armored Fighting Vehicle (AFV) is the first fully digitalized fighting platforms designed to meet the operational requirements for the future battlefield.
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Colchester-based 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) is deploying to the Afghan capital Kabul from late September as part of the UK’s enduring support to the Afghan Government. Their mission is to protect NATO military and civilian advisors working in government ministries, as well as UK mentors based at the Afghan National Army Officers’ Academy.
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About 2,000 servicemen are engaged in full-scale exercises of radiological, chemical and biological defense troops that have got underway in the Trans-Baikal and Primorye Territories and the Sakhalin region, the Eastern Military District (VVO) said.
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North Korea has performed a series of ballistic missile tests. The last test performed on August 6 demonstrated technology related to a new tactical guided missile.
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The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded Lockheed Martin a $240 million contract to support the modeling and simulation framework for the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS).
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The Nigerian Army has commissioned into service another batch of Ara armoured personnel carriers manufactured by Nigeria’s Proforce.
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Bulgaria’s Ministry of Defense announced that, on August 5, it had sent formal Requests for Proposals (RFP) to four companies invited to bid to supply armored infantry carriers. These four companies are ARTEC GmbH (Germany), Patria (Finland), Nexter Systems (France) and General Dynamics European Land Systems – MOWAG (Switzerland). The deadline for submission is October 31, 2019.
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The Military Industrial Company (VPK) is developing a Russian-made brand of inexpensive steel armor to replace costlier foreign analogs in the Russian market. The company is also planning to create its armor ceramics, VPK’s Director General Alexander Krasovitsky told TASS.
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Iranian minister of Defense Brigadier General Amir Hatami said the domestically-made, long-range air defense missile system “Bavar-373” will be displayed on August 22.
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During the last celebration of the Colombian Independence Day, Colombian Armor International has presented its new MRAP vehicle (Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected), called Hunter XL. Erich Saumeth reports.
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Today, August 7, 2019, Russian armed forces have released a video on their YouTube account showing first flight test of the Sukhoi S-70 "Okhotnik". The contract for developing the Okhotnik combat drone weighing 20 tons was signed between the military agency and the Sukhoi Company in 2011.
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The Ukrainian Defense Industry, a state concern of arms production, received 37.6 billion Ukrainian hryvnias (1.47 billion U.S. dollars) of net income from the sales of its products last year, the conglomerate said in a statement published on Tuesday, August 6, 2019.
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Mack Defense is partnering with Crysteel Manufacturing on the U.S. Army M917A3 Heavy Dump Truck (HDT) contract to provide specialized dump bodies that provide several key safety and functionality features to meet the specialized needs of the U.S. Army.
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NATO's enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Poland hosted the first annual Interoperability Games to test multinational Soldier's abilities to work together through a series of challenges, at the Bemowo Piskie Training Area, Aug. 1. 1st Lt. Kealy Moriarty reports.
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For more than a dozen days, all the soldiers who make up the LYNX 5 Mission Combat Sub-Group (sous-groupement tactique interarmes, SGTIA) left to train in Nursipalu, more than 200 kilometers south of Tapa, near the Latvian border.
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Netline Communications Technologies Ltd. - a leading developer and manufacturer of high-end electronic warfare and spectrum dominance systems for defence forces and homeland security agencies - is supplying its C-Guard Reactive Jamming (RJ) Manpack system to the IDF.
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RAFAEL’s solution for the future combat fighting vehicle enables two crew members to perform their mission, in a fully protected closed hatch vehicle, with a breakthrough transparent cockpit design, enabling 360 degree situational awareness, using augmented reality for real-time battlefield information and data.
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The Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) program has completed delivery of its first radar panel to Clear, Alaska and placement of the final beam on the radar shelter as the program continues to successfully achieve all milestones and work towards delivery to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) in 2020 at its Clear, Alaska site. The radar system will serve as a critical sensor within MDA's layered defense strategy to protect the U.S. homeland from ballistic missile attacks.
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Elbit Systems has concluded extensive testing and carried out a series of successful capability demonstrations of its innovative Armored Fighting Vehicle (AFV), as part of the CARMEL Future Combat Vehicle project of the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
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Royal Marines and their Reservist counterparts have spent four weeks in Entebbe training the Uganda People’s Defence Force in maritime operations. The purpose is to pass on their specialist knowledge of amphibious assaults.
