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The joint military exercise "Native Fury 20" between the UAE and the United States has concluded, as UAE Armed Forces officers highlighted their ability to handle the most advanced technologies and weapons. UAE’s new Rabdan IFV manufactured by Al Jasoor participated in the exercise.
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The subject is already known since 2016 but comes back on the table: in the framework of the “Make in India” motto, a fully indigenous Futuristic Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV) is being developed by Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) and Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) for the Indian Army. A USD 8 billion program.
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The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems a $339 million contract modification for the production of 48 vehicle sets of M109A7 Self-propelled Howitzer (SPH) and its companion, the M992A3 Carrier, Ammunition, Tracked (CAT) vehicle, and includes post-delivery support and spare parts.
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Ukraine's Otaman 6×6 infantry fighting vehicle has completed one of the initial trial stages in offroad tests.
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Army Recognition Group actively supports and cooperates to requests aiming at protecting people against the Covid-19 spreading. As a major media player in the defense and security global world, we gladly publish what follows.
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Lockheed Martin, Missiles and Fire Control, Dallas, Texas, is being awarded a $932,836,737 modification to previously-awarded contract HQ0147-17-C-0032 to exercise an option for the production of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors and associated one-shot devices to support the U.S. government and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Foreign Military Sales (FMS) case requirements.
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Protecting people is what Plasan does, and in these difficult circumstances, Plasan (manufacturer of defense and security vehicles) and our subsidiaries are continuing to work hard for our customers around the world, and on new developments, while taking actions to protect our staff and the wider community from the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
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Raytheon and Uptake, a leader in the development of industrial-use artificial intelligence software, have teamed to bring predictive maintenance capabilities to deployed U.S. Marine Corps teams using M88 HERCULES armored recovery vehicles.
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After the very active year 2019, during which the factory has produced more than 1,350 vehicles, namely 1,200 VT4 liaison vehicles for the French Army, Arquus Saint-Nazaire has recently announced having reached the benchmark of 500 Bastion produced.
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Bittium has received a purchase order from the Finnish Defence Forces for the Bittium Tactical Wireless IP Network (TAC WIN) system's products, which are meant for tactical communications.
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On Saturday 21st March, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the country’s armed forces had tracked two North Korean short-range ballistic missile launches into the Sea of Japan. The launches took place from a launch site near North Korea’s Sonchon county in North Pyongan province. The launches were five minutes apart, with the first at 6:45 a.m. and the second at 6:50 a.m. local time, Ankit Panda reports in The Diplomat.
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Singaporean Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen and Australian Minister for Defence Linda Reynolds signed a Treaty on Military Training and Training Area Development in Australia on 23 March at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Singapore and the Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, respectively. The signing, witnessed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, took place during the 5th Singapore-Australia Leaders' Meeting, which was conducted via video conference in view of the global Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Southern Military District forces have taken part in a bilateral company-level tactical exercise at the Prudboy training range in the Volgograd Region in south Russia to practice operations in an NBC environment, the Defense Ministry’s press office said: “While marching to the assigned area, Russian Southern Military District servicemen practiced countering a simulated enemy’s aerial attacks, negotiating notional contaminated zones and passing jamming areas".
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At the request of the General Secretariat for Defence and National Security (SGDSN), under the authority of the Prime Minister, the Directorate General of Armament is mobilizing to identify alternative solutions to FFP2 and surgical masks.
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While still carrying on military exercise Golden Dragon 2020 with its Cambodian counterpart in southern Cambodia, the Chinese army donated 15,000 sets of study, sport and medical materials to Cambodia on Saturday 21 March, the Ministry of National Defense said, reported by the China Daily.
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Oshkosh Defense was awarded a $16,754,161 modification to contract W56HZV-15-C-0095 to exercise options for packaged kits for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle family of vehicles.
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On March 22, 2020, Russia has started the sending of medical personnel and equipment to Italy in the fight against the COVID-19 using military transport aircraft Il-76. Today, we can see that all military forces in the world also are collaborating with the private sector and other civilian government entities providing military equipment and medical support.
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According to a tweet released on March 19, 2020, on the Official Twitter account of US Army, the US Army completed a new test of the Extended Range Cannon Artillery system (ERCA), hitting a target over 40 miles (65 km) away. The ERCA (Extended Range Cannon Artillery) itself is a massive undertaking in that everything is under development at the same time and it’s a platform that needs to be compatible with multiple howitzer configurations, multiple projectiles and multiple missions.
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U.S. Army researchers are working to rapidly develop and test experimental vaccines to combat COVID-19, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said. The U.S. Army is also collaborating with the private sector and other government entities on 24 vaccine candidates, some of which are headed for human testing after having been tested on animals.
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The replacement of the Army’s Shadow 200 Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) through project LAND 129 Phase 3 has progressed to the tendering process.
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The U.S. Department of Defense successfully tested a hypersonic glide body in a flight experiment conducted from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, March 19 at approximately 10:30 p.m. local time (HST). The U.S. Navy and U.S. Army jointly executed the launch of a common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB), which flew at hypersonic speed to a designated impact point.
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The Indian Ministry of Defence on Thursday, March 19, announced that IWI would supply 16,479 Negev NG7 light machine guns to the force at a cost of about USD 117 million.
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Medical materials donated to the Iranian armed forces from the Chinese military arrived in Iran on Thursday, according to the Chinese Defense Ministry. The ministry said in a brief statement on its website that the materials include test kits, protective suits and medical masks.
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American Company Hexagon’s Geosystems division announced on March 19, 2020, the HxGN Content Program is making its aerial imagery library of the entire United States and Europe freely available to any government agencies and non-profit organizations managing the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Following the COVID-19 outbreak, there has been a reduced requirement for training from the Iraqi security forces and a subsequent pause in the Coalition and NATO training missions in Iraq. The British Ministry of Defence has therefore decided to redeploy some of its personnel back to the UK.