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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Dr. Nebojsa Stefanovic and Chief of the General Staff of the Serbian Army General Milan Mojsilovic attended the handover of T-72MS tanks (in fact T-72B1MS White Eagle, according to Army Recognition's analysis) and BRDM-2MS armored reconnaissance cars from a donation from the Russian Federation to Serbia at the Mija Stanimirovic barracks in Nis, the Serbian Ministry of Defense reports on its website.
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The Portuguese Army has awarded Rheinmetall an order for 1,500 LM-LowProfile laser modules. The contract, booked back in October 2020, calls for delivery of the devices in three lots. Delivery is to be complete by the third quarter of 2021. The order is worth a figure in the low single-digit million-euro range. In carrying out the order, Rheinmetall is cooperating closely with its local sales partner, NT Group Portugal.
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Dutch defense company AEC Skyline and Europe's leading robotics and autonomous systems developer Milrem Robotics signed a Memorandum of Understanding last week to cooperate in the development of unmanned systems. The MoU that was signed by Stef Have, director of AEC Skyline Holding and Kuldar Väärsi, CEO of Milrem Robotics paves the way for joint development, testing and validation of products and software in the fields of activity of both parties.
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Aimpoint, the originator and worldwide leader in reflex sighting technology, has once again advanced the standard for pistol-mounted optics with the release of the next generation Acro red dot sights. These second-generation sights incorporate an improved LED emitter coupled with a higher capacity CR2032 battery to provide five years (50,000 hours) of constant-on power while getting you on target faster and more accurately.
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According to information published by the SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) arms trade database, Algeria has upgrade 360 BMP-2 Soviet-made tracked armored IFVs (Infantry Fighting Vehicle) to standard BMP-2M fitted with Berezhok turret armed with four Kornet anti-tank guided missiles.
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According to information published on May 21, 2021, Romania is poised to become the first country to field the newest version of the U.S. Patriot air and missile defense system, made by Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a business of Raytheon Technologies.
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According to information published by the Daily Sabah website on May 21, 2021, Morocco has shown interest to purchase Ejder Yalcin 4x4 armored vehicle produced by the Turkish company Nurol Makina.
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According to information published on the Twitter account of Nicholas Drummond, the Leopard 2A7A1 main battle tank of the German Army (Bundeswehr) has now been fully integrated with the Israeli-made Rafael Trophy Active Protection System (APS) and will be deployed with NATO forces.
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According to information published on May 18, 2021, American company AM General, a global leader in military-grade tactical vehicles and mobility systems, recently received a Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) contract from the United States Army to provide two HUMVEE 2-CT Hawkeye 105mm Mobile Howitzer Systems (MHS) for the U.S. Army’s characterization test.
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According to Rostec, testing equipment increases the combat readiness of equipment up to one and a half times. In addition, the 1I37M tools increase the firing accuracy by 1.2 or 1.3 times by improving the quality of parameter setting and taking into account corrections for the individual angle of departure of each projectile and preserve the resource of the gun barrel.
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According to information released by a Latvian press agency on May 18, 2021, citing information from the Latvian Ministry of Defense, the country has signed an agreement with Austria to purchase another batch of 18 second-hand M109A5 155mm tracked self-propelled howitzers.
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Venezuela armed forces have finalized a maintenance and repair campaign program of combat vehicles and military equipment that began in January this year. The goal of this operation was to modernize military equipment acquires in the 1970s.
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According to a Russian press agency, Russia will start the delivery of S-400 surface-to-air defense missile systems to India at the end of this year. The S-400 Triumph, NATO code-named SA-21 Growler, was developed by The Russian company Almaz Central Design Bureau.
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The British Royal Marines have recently tested the capability of the Gravity Jet Suit to support combat and boarding operations on a ship. The Gravity Jet Suit uses over 1,000 bhp of Jet Engine power combined with the natural human balance offering an individual flying machine.
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U.S. Army engineers evaluated methods to improve the radio performance of Robotic Combat Vehicles (RCVs) during a field-based experiment. Jasmyne Douglas, DEVCOM C5ISR Center Public Affairs, reports.
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Russia’s Rosoboronexport state arms seller has signed contracts worth $4 billion in 2021, Rosoboronexport CEO Alexander Mikheyev said at the HeliRussia 2021 exhibition: “We have signed contracts worth more than $4 billion this year. Our order portfolio is at $52.1 billion,” the CEO said. Rosoboronexport is a subsidiary of Russia’s Rostec state hi-tech corporation.
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According to a Tweet published by the American company Oshkosh Defense, On May 11, 2021, Slovenia army has received the first Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV) manufactured by the American company Oshkosh Defense.
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British soldiers from 3rd Battalion The Rifles are taking part in Exercise Noble Jump with troops from the Romanian Army and Turkey’s 66th Mechanised Infantry Brigade. The Riflemen have been put through their paces as part of a Very High Readiness Joint Task Force in the Balkans.
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The U.S. Department of Defense on May 19 announced on its website that BC Customs LLC, Clearfield, Utah, has been awarded a ceiling $70,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a five-year ordering period for the Search and Rescue Tactical Vehicle (SKTV) – Side by Vehicle (SXV).
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On May 18, 2021, Nexter inaugurated its new training center – Pyrotraining – at the ammunition site of La Chapelle-Saint-Ursin (Cher) in the presence of local authorities. This event was an opportunity to highlight the investments made by Nexter in the fields of technical training and safety.
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The Estonian Defence Forces Artillery Battalion used Milrem Robotics' THeMIS UGVs in a live-fire exercise to provide advanced situational awareness, conduct casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) and to support units maneuver while providing direct fire support from various positions
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According to a tweet published by Nicholas Drummond on May 19, 2021, German company ARTEC, a joint venture of Kraus-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall Defense has developed a new variant of the Boxer 8x8 wheeled armored IFV (Infantry Fighting Vehicle) for a Middle East customer fitted with a remote weapon station Protector RT60 from Norwegian company Kongsberg defense.
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Indian company BEML is expected to receive orders of more than 55 minefield marking systems from the Indian Ministry of Defense after the successful trial evaluation, IIFL reports.
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The Chilean Investigative Police (PDI) accepted the proposals from Centurion Armor, Comercial Raptor, Consorcio 7M Group and GIG Abogados SpA, Ferexpo, Innova Tecnológica SpA, SFA Seguridad y Protección Limitada, TSD, Voin Solutions SpA and WLP in the act of opening of bids for the tender for the purchase of two 4x4 armored vehicles, Nicolas Garcia reports in InfoDefensa.
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Commtact Ltd, a leading provider of advanced wireless communications solutions for manned and unmanned platforms on the ground, in the air or at sea, announces that its EMDLS datalink radio units have recently undergone harsh testing cycles administered for the U.S. Army as per known MIL-810 and MIL-461 standards.