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Russian Defense Ministry will receive 40 Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in May of this year, according to the official Vkontakte page of the government entity. "In St Petersburg technical acceptance began of Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicles. Under the current state defense order the manufacturer will hand over in May 40 aerial systems to the Russian Defense Ministry’s military units," the report says.
U.S. soldiers work on improving their efficiency by using Field Artillery command and control capabilities via modernized software on Android-enabled smartphones. The upgrades, such as receiving digital maps to enhance the ability to send precision target coordinates, are part of the Army's modernization effort known as Precision Fires-Dismounted.
The British airborne forces are completing a series of exercises to test their ability to fight alongside mechanized infantry from key European and NATO allies.
Acmat is a French company based in Saint-Nazaire since 1965, two years before the launch of the VLRA, its iconic vehicle that has since served in almost all parts of the world where operated the French army.
During the practical phase of Combined Resolve X international exercises at the training site near Hohenfels, Bayern, Germany, Ukrainian T-84 Oplot tanks proved their high effectiveness.
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and Bogdan Corporation will jointly develop new technologies and transport. They will implement innovative high technology projects, introduce new effective forms of production organization, and implement competitive products in Ukraine and abroad. Scientists and manufacturers will join efforts to find investments to meet these challenges.
Raytheon has been awarded a US Army contract for TOW anti-tank missiles delivery for the governments of Oman and Taiwan. The deal, announced on May 1 by the US Department of Defense, is valued at more than $129.9 million and is a modification to a previous Pentagon award.
The Czech defense company Excalibur Army, a subsidiary of the Czechoslovak Group holding (CSG), landed a contract for the delivery of overhauled BVP-1 (BMP-1) amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicles and 2S1 122 mm tracked self-propelled howitzers to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) have tested for the first time an air defense automatic control system (ACS) fitted with elements of artificial intelligence (AI), the newspaper Izvestia reports.
Saab has held a demonstration of its dismounted weapons support systems - the NLAW (Next Generation Light Anti-tank Weapon), Carl-Gustaf, and AT4 - at the Pabrade shooting range, located near Vilnius, in Lithuania. The event was an occasion to demonstrate the versatility and effectiveness of its systems when facing a variety of threats.
The U.S. Army needs a family of lightweight, longer-range precision munitions to fire from its fleet of unmanned aerial systems and attack helicopters, said Maj. Gen. Frank Tate, director of Army Aviation, G-3/5/7, during the 2018 Army Aviation Mission Solutions Summit in Nashville.
Harris Corporation was awarded a $21,000,000 maximum, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, single award contract for the sustainment of handheld (PRC-152(v)5/6 and PRC-152A(v)1/2) and manpack (PRC-117G(v)3) radios and associated spare parts, accessories, repairs, training, spares management and engineering services in support of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM).
The U.S. government has confirmed the sale of 37 Javelin anti-tank launchers, and 210 missiles made for those launchers, to the Ukrainian government. This sale targets the ongoing war in the Ukrainian eastern provinces.
Russia reduced its military spending last year for the first time since 1998, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in its report.
Lockheed Martin Corp has been awarded two contracts worth US$162 million for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile defense system, the US DoD announced on May 2, 2018.
A new strategy is foreseen by the director of the Army National Guard for short-notice deployments, which will imply more training days. As part of National Guard 4.0, the Guard has begun a transformation aimed at better meeting the needs of the operational Army.
Lockheed Martin's Indago 3, a small quadrotor unmanned aerial system has been upgraded with high resolution infrared sensors capable of day or night operations, the US company said on May 2, 2018.
On 2 May, the Defense ministry of The Netherlands signed a contract with the Norwegian manufacturer Prox Dynamics to purchase dozens of tiny reconnaissance drones of the Black Hornet type. The mini-drones will be used by reconnaissance units of the army and the Marine Corps (Mariniers).
A picture posted today on Instagram has revealed that an important batch of 30mm Stryker ICV-D have been delivered to the 1st Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment (War Eagles), Battle Group Poland. The ICV-D’s will be fielded in Poland this summer.
On April 30, the Georgian armed forces have unveiled the first of their newly delivered Javelin anti-tank missile systems.
This is a major milestone in the long fight against the self-called Islamic State: on April 30 in Baghdad, the U.S. armed forces folded down the flag on the headquarters of the coalition's ground component in Iraq.
Nearly 3,700 service members from 13 allied and partner nations will participate in exercise Combined Resolve X at the 7th Army Training Command's Grafenwoehr Training Area in southeastern Germany, April 9-May 12, 2018. Combined Resolve is a U.S. Army Europe exercise designed to give the rotational combat brigades a graded culminating event before they return to the U.S.
China will dispatch 395 peacekeepers in May to Mali for one year on a UN mission. Officially formed on Wednesday 1st May, the battalion will be China's sixth batch of peacekeepers to be deployed in Mali.
The Dongfeng-26 ballistic missile has been commissioned into the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Rocket Force, said Wu Qian, spokesperson with China's Defense Ministry, on Thursday 26 April.
Abaco has won a substantial initial order from a major European supplier to the defense industry. The customer is under contract to supply tactical electronic warfare systems to one of the world’s major armies. The order includes quantities of Abaco’s VP868 high performance 6U OpenVPX plug-in modules with advanced digital signal processing capabilities, and Abaco’s FM134 FMC+ FPGA Mezzanine Card Direct RF Conversion Module, two of which will be mounted on each VP868. Total long-term value of the program to Abaco is estimated to be around $6 million.
