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Schiebel Pacific and Raytheon Australia have teamed up for the LAND129 Phase 3 Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (TUAS) project for the Australian Army. The tender response was submitted last week.
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According to information released by the Russian Press Agency on July 25, 2020, India might target a potential acquisition of the Russian-made 2S25M Sprut-SDM1 125 mm self-propelled anti-tank gun (SPATG).
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The South Korean defense company Hanwha Defense is ready to send its AS-21 Redback tracked armored IFV (Infantry Fighting Vehicle) in Australia to conduct local testing and evaluation. The Redback was selected last September as one of the final two candidates for Australia's 5 trillion won armored vehicle project.
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On July 21, 2020, the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan for the Defense Industry announced that local company Kran Va Maxsus Texnikala LLC in Tashkent is starting production of a 4x4 light armored vehicle called Tarlon, Live Journal reports.
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Thales has presented to the Armed Forces of Spain, the DGAM (Procurement Agency) and the Ministry of Defense, the performance of its software-defined radios SYNAPS, to provide state-of-the-art radio communications to the new 8x8 “Dragón” vehicle for the Spanish Armed Forces, as well as for the Joint Tactical Radio System (SCRT) program.
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The U.S. Army recently implemented a new directorate to support requirements within the electromagnetic spectrum, enabling the force to prioritize, integrate, and synchronize its data-enabled warfighting capabilities to fight and win in a multi-domain battlefield. Devon Suits, Army News Service, elaborates.
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Russia is strengthening its ground forces in the Arctic. All Arctic units will be armed by the end of 2020 with T-80BVM tanks fit for operations in the Extreme North. The Izvestia daily writes about the modern Russian ground forces in the Arctic, their composition and the missions of motorized rifles and marines.
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Lockheed Martin was awarded a $702,881,910 modification to contract W31P4Q-18-C-0130 for the procurement of Hellfire missiles. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 30, 2023. Fiscal 2010, 2011, 2018, 2019 and 2020 other procurement (Army) funds in the amount of $702,754,471 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity.
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According to a press release published by BAE Systems on July 22, 2020, BAE Systems has received a $33 million multi-year contract from the U.S. Army to further develop its Long Range Precision Guidance Kit (LR-PGK) for 155mm artillery shells, enabling the Army to conduct long-range precision strikes in challenging electromagnetic environments.
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HQ-17A systems in service with the PLA Ground Force's 78th Army Group is understood to be based on Russia's Tor-M1 (SA-15 Gauntlet in NATO designation system), making it one of the more capable SHORAD systems in PLA service. Three launch vehicles may indicate that this is the complement of an air defense company.
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Troopers with 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, have been the first unit to receive the U.S. Army’s newest version of the M1 Abrams Tank, the M1A2C (SEP v.3) at Fort Hood, Texas, on July 20, 2020.
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The Spanish Ministry of Defense and the Galician company Urovesa have signed a framework contract for the supply of up to 700 High Tactical Mobility Vehicles (Vamtac) to the Army, the Air Force, the Navy and common structures for an amount of 146.3 million euro.
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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) recently initiated a series of brigade-level exercises in Elbit Systems’ new Brigade and Battlegroup Mission Training Center (B2MTC). The new training center immerses commanders, headquarters staff and two subordinate command levels in high-fidelity combat situations in actual battle zone territory.
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Northrop Grumman has formed a strategic supplier agreement with Epirus to offer the company’s Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) capability as a component of Northrop Grumman’s Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) systems-of-systems solution offering.
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According to a piece of information published on July 21 by the U.S. DoD, Raytheon Missile Systems has been awarded a $375,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for a miniature self-defense missile.
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According to information released by the Aljazeera website on July 21, 2020, the Egyptian parliament on Monday, July 20, 2020, has approved the deployment of Egyptian troops to conduct military action in Libya.
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Russia defense industry unveils new 8x8 152mm wheeled self-propelled howitzer 2S43 dubbed Malva developed by the Burevestnik Central Research Institute, a division of Uralvagonzavod who is now part of ROSTEC, State Corporation for Assistance to Development, Production and Export of Advanced Technology Industrial Product.
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From 25 May to 8 June 2020, Nexter Munitions carried out two major test campaigns of the Katana ammunition in the S3MA wind tunnel at ONERA's Modane site. The 155mm Katana technical team successfully tested the guidance function and ballistic behavior of the ammunition in this wind tunnel capable of covering speeds ranging from Mach 0.1 to 6.05.
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The Taiwanese army plans to spend more than NT$4.8 billion (US$163 million) on a new communication system to prevent eavesdropping by China, reports said Saturday (July 18), echoed by Taiwan News.
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According to a contract released by the U.S. DoD (Department of Defense) on July 17, 2020, General Dynamic Land Systems Inc., Sterling Heights, Michigan, was awarded a $44,415,556 modification (PZ0003) to contract W56HZV-20-F-0060 to procure improved fire control electronics units in support of the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank expedited active protection system-trophy.
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According to a press release of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Special forces of the Southern Military District in the Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) used the newest remotely-controlled combat module Arbalet-DM based on the Tigr-M armored vehicle in the fight against drones of a “conditional enemy”.
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The Belgian Ministry of Defense will buy ammunition for the 40mm grenade launchers that equip certain vehicles of the Special Forces Group, as well as a first batch of armored SUVs.
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On July 13, Serbian Minister of Defence Aleksandar Vulin visited the plants of the factory “Complex Combat Systems” in Velika Plana, and the occasion for the visit was recently signed a framework agreement for equipping of the Serbian Armed Forces with the 8x8 armored fighting vehicles Lazar-3 and self-propelled howitzers 155mm Nora B-52 M15.
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According to information released by the Financial Express website on July 18, 2020, India continues the deployment of combat vehicles and carried out military exercises using BMP-2 Sarath IFV Infantry vehicles, T-90S main battle tanks as well as combat helicopters AH-64 Apache, HAL Rudra and Mi-17V5 along the border with China.