JULY 2021 News Global Defence & Security Industry - Military |
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According to Novosti, the Kazakh army continues to test Turkish-made armored vehicles. Following the armored wheeled vehicle (BKM) Arma-8x8, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan brought the Tulpar infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) manufactured by the Turkish company Otokar for testing.
Saab has received an order for Carl-Gustaf ammunition from the U.S. Army. The order value is approximately USD 75 million and deliveries will take place in 2022.
As reported by the British Army on its website, over the next few weeks, soldiers from the 4th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (4 SCOTS), will be in Ukraine taking part in exercise Cossack Mace, in partnership with soldiers from the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
Lockheed Martin has received a $160.5 million contract modification to produce additional High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launchers for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. The award includes a foreign military sale of M142 HIMARS and related support services to Taiwan, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. April 30, 2023, is the estimated completion date of work under the modification.
Attempting to list the equipment available to the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Forces armées de la République démocratique du Congo [FARDC]) is difficult; most figures are unreliable estimates based on known items delivered in the past. The figures below are from the IISS Military Balance 2014. Much of the Army's equipment is non-operational due to insufficient maintenance—in 2002 only 20 percent of the Army's armored vehicles were estimated as being serviceable.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense Cadets of the military training center of the Ural Federal University (UrFU), studying in the specialties "Operation and repair of engineering weapons" and "Commanders of engineering and sapper departments" for the first time worked out driving engineering equipment during a military internship at the training ground of the Central Military District (CVD) in Bashkiria.
Chinese company China Aerospace Long-March International (ALIT) has developed a new missiles/rockets launcher container platform that can fire guided and unguided rockets as well as precision missile and loitering munitions also called suicide drones.
The latest flight test integrated the widest variety of sensors to date on the IFCN for an IBCS test, including one Marine Corps G/ATOR, two Army Sentinel radars, one Army Patriot radar and two U.S. Air Force F-35 fighter aircraft (Picture source: Northrop Grumman)
The Sprut-SDM1 light amphibious tank, created by the High-Precision Weapons holding company of the Rostec State Corporation, has passed the first stage of state trials in maritime conditions. The second stage, which includes testing firing capabilities when afloat, will begin shortly.
According to information released by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) on July 17, 2021, U.S. Army Pacific Air and Missile Defense units working with Australian Defence Force counterparts completed the first-ever Patriot surface-to-air missile firing on Australian soil during Exercise Talisman Sabre 21 in the Shoalwater Bay Training Area in Queensland, Australia, July 16, 2021.
According to information released by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) on July 16, 2021, the U.S. Marine Corps selected Textron Systems and General Dynamics Land Systems for Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle pre-award and will begin negotiations for Other Transaction Agreement awards of ARV prototypes. Pending successful negotiations, Army Contracting Command – Detroit Arsenal will award the ARV OTAs utilizing the Ground Vehicle Systems OTA with the National Advanced Mobility Consortium.
German company Rheinmetall has presented the German Bundeswehr with a first complete concept for the third generation of the Future Soldier – Expanded System, or IdZ-ES. The presentation was the initial outcome of a comprehensive study contract awarded to Rheinmetall in March 2021.
According to Jaroslaw Adamowski in Defense News, Poland’s Defence Ministry is reportedly preparing to buy about 250 M1 Abrams tanks from the United States, two months after it announced plans to buy 24 Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones. In fact, the Abrams is the third existing design offered in the Wilk programme, alongside the Leopard 2 and the South Korean K2. The Wilk programme is aimed at selecting a replacement for the T-72/PT-91 MBTs.
According to information published on June 9, 2021, Eurosam, the Franco Italian consortium, which is co-owned by MBDA and Thales, signed a contract with OCCAR (Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en matière d’ARmement / Organisation for Joint Armament Co-operation) for the production of the mid-life refurbishment of ASTER missiles for Italy and the United-Kingdom.
According to information published by the Russian press agency TASS on July 8, 2021, Russian company Uralvagonzavod that is a subsidiary of Russia’s Rostec state hi-tech corporation has started serial supplies of BMPT-72 Terminator-2 tank fire support vehicles, Enterprise CEO Alexander Potapov told TASS at the INNOPROM international exhibition.
According to a contract published by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) on July 8, 2021, MDT Armor Corp.,* Auburn, Alabama, was awarded a $9,982,848 firm-fixed-price contract for procurement of the David Urban Light Armored Combat Vehicles.
According to information released on July 8, 2021, the Joint United States Military Assistance Group – Philippines (JUSMAG-P) delivered Php48.5 million ($1 million) worth of new weapons and munitions to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) at Clark Air Base.
In Dagestan, servicemen of the Caspian Flotilla Marine Corps are practicing amphibious training. Training sessions are held at the Scorpio training complex in accordance with the combat training plan for the summer training period. They are attended by servicemen of the Marine Corps on standard equipment BTR-82A and BTR-80.
According to Lim Chang-won in AJU Daily, Hyundai Rotem, a subsidiary of Hyundai auto group, has delivered two multi-purpose unmanned ground vehicles to the South Korean army for a six-month test period. It is the first unmanned vehicle to be introduced by South Korean troops.
According to AKN Press, India successfully test-fired the nuclear-capable Agni Prime ballistic missile – a more advanced version of the Agni class of missiles – on June 28, NDTV reported.
According to Eurasia Review, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force on 7 July took delivery of a wide range of modern weapons, including the ground-launched version of Almas (diamond) anti-tank missile.
Northrop Grumman Systems, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, has been awarded a $3,860,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile ground subsystems support. This contract provides for sustaining engineering, maintenance engineering, test and assessment, modification of systems and equipment, software maintenance, developmental engineering, production engineering, repair and procurement.
Mid-June 2021, photos appeared showing trials of the Kapa amphibious tracked vehicle carried out by Czech company Excalibur Army, Defense Studies reports. Actually, these trials were likely conducted at the Myslejovice Water Training Ground, Březina Military District, in 2020.
In another historic event for the UK Defence industry, WFEL has commenced production of Boxer Mechanised Infantry Vehicles for the British Army at its new manufacturing plant in the NorthWest of England. It is a number of years since any new armoured vehicles have been manufactured in the UK.
Finnish Defence Forces Logistic Command has placed an order to purchase laser sights and additional NVG M40 image intensifiers from Senop Oy. The value of the contract is more than 13.6 M€. Senop will deliver the systems by the end of October 2022.
