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The U.S. State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to TECRO for the Stinger missiles and related equipment and support for an estimated cost of $223.56 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale.
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The latest Russian S-500 air and missile defense will be supplied to the troops earlier than scheduled, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said. The Army Standard writes about the new Russian weapon. Borisov said staged trials of various elements are ongoing, as well as "launches of new missiles which have no analogs in the world."
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The Indian army intends to buy Excalibur guided long-range artillery shells compatible with the 145 M-777A2 howitzers it purchased in November 2016 from BAE Systems three years ago, the first batch of which was inducted into the artillery in November 2018 after extensive field trials.
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Commander 6th Singapore Division (6 Div), Brigadier-General (BG) Lee Yi-Jin and The Adjutant General Hawaii National Guard (TAG HING), BG Arthur J. Logan, co-officiated at the opening ceremony of Exercise Tiger Balm 2019 at Mandai Hill Camp, Singapore, on Monday, July 8.
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The Chinese Optics Company acquired a batch of night vision monoculars PN21K from a major Russian designer of sights and monitoring devices, the Novosibirsk instrument-manufacturing plant (NPZ) of Shvabe. The devices are used for covert monitoring of movements, map reading and other tasks, Rostec said.
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New Zealand Defence Minister Ron Mark has announced the first phase of a project to replace many of the New Zealand Defence Force’s operational vehicles.
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The missile is in the final stages of being inducted into the army. This new weaponry will be mounted on armored vehicles. The Army and DRDO are supposed to carry out more tests of the missiles on Monday, July 8, also to further validate the missile's capabilities.
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“Ukraine is developing a contract with Canada for the supply of armored vehicles”, Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said after a meeting with Canadian Minister of National Defense Harjit Sajjan in Toronto, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
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At the end of June 2019, a batch of series manufactured Krab 155mm self-propelled howitzers has been introduced into the inventory of the Sulechów-based 5th “Lubuski” Artillery Regiment of the Polish army.
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MBDA, along with its industry and French Government partners, have been awarded the prestigious Ingénieur général Chanson prize for their work combining artificial intelligence (AI) and massively parallel processing to develop new real-time target Detection, Recognition and Identification (DRI) technology.
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On 6 June 2019, Rheinmetall AG and Defence Equipment and Support, the UK's defence procurement agency, signed a new framework agreement to enable the repeated procurement of infantry ammunition. The framework agreement will represent the default source of supply for specific impact rounds, ammunition and grenades in the next 5-7 years and has an estimated throughput of up to €100 million (£90m).
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China has revitalized a type of howitzer that has been utilized by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) arsenal for more than 50 years by upgrading it with modern equipment, Liu Xuanzun reports in Global Times.
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On July 4th, Emmanuel Levacher, president of Arquus, symbolically presented the license plate of the first EBMR Griffon vehicle to General Jean-Pierre Bosser, Chief of Staff of the Army (CEMAT), during a ceremony organized in Satory, in the presence of the Minister of the Armies, Mrs. Florence Parly.
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Government of the United States (U.S) has donated 20 M1123 cargo/troop carrier High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV, Humvee) to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH’s) Armed Forces Wednesday here, the embassy’s social account stated.
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Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) and Paramount Group, the global aerospace and technology company, announced the signing of a high-level defense collaboration agreement, in step with Saudi Arabia’s vision for the creation of an integrated defense industrial ecosystem.
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West Virginia Army National Guard (WVARNG) Special Forces soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne) recently completed the first irregular and unconventional warfare training iteration for members of the Polish Territorial Defense Forces and Latvian Zemmessardze as a part of the Ridge Runner program in West Virginia. Capt. Holli Nelson, West Virginia National Guard, reports.
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The U.S. Army is now standing up short-range air defense units, known as SHORAD battalions, and offering a five-week pilot Stinger course for soldiers in maneuver units. It's part of a critical effort to defend maneuver units against the threat of aircraft, drones and cruise missiles, said Col. Mark A. Holler, commandant of the Air Defense Artillery School at Fort Sill. Gary Sheftick, Army News Service, explains.
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Another batch of T-72B3Ms of the latest variant arrived in tank formations in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
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On July 4, Mrs Florence Parly, French minister of Defense, will visit the French armored vehicles manufacturer Nexter in its Satory plant for the official reception of the first 6x6 multi-role armored vehicles designated VBMR Griffon.
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On its Facebook account, the U.S. Army GVSC Ground Vehicle Systems Center has released a picture showing Mission Enabler Technologies-Demonstrator (MET-D) vehicles including the new Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) based on tracked APC M113. The vehicle was unveiled during an event at the GVSC.
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The German Army has selected Danish company Systematic’s SitaWare Headquarters to enhance the command-and-control capabilities of its deployable command posts.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is expected to spend $1.036 trillion in 2019, an increase of 6.8 percent from the 2018 estimated expenditure.
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General Dynamics Mission Systems Inc. has been awarded a $14,569,395 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide engineering and test services for the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2 systems and equipment.
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American Company Oshkosh Defense LLC, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was awarded a $320,000,000 modification (P00060) to domestic and Foreign Military Sales (Argentina, Djibouti, Iraq, Lebanon, Romania) contract W56HZV-09-D-0159 for procurement of Family of Medium Tactical Vehicle variants.
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As part of a strategic partnership between Belgium and France, the government-to-government agreement on the CaMo (Capacité Motorisée, Motorized Capacity) project has now come into effect and the contract for the procurement of armored vehicles for the Belgian forces has been awarded for an amount of 1.6 billion euro.