May 2018 Global Defence & Security Industry - Military News |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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According to a report published on 1st May by the SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), the total world military expenditure rose to $1,739 billion in 2017, a marginal increase of 1.1% in real terms from 2016.
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The Indonesian Tiger medium tank is a joint project associating the Indonesian company PT Pindad and the Turkish FNSS company. The second prototype will undergo a series of tests in view of obtaining its certification next June.
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U.S. Army and British Army Signal soldiers are building interoperability, trust and relationships through technical and tactical skills training during exercise Stoney Run in the Sennelager Training Area, Germany.
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The Bradley Fighting Vehicle production line remains active for the modernization and retrofit of existing Bradley vehicles.