Pakistan Defense Minister Syed Naveed Qamar said Pakistan intends to build unmanned aerial vehicles. Qamar made the statement in discussions with Pakistani media, the News International reported Thursday, October 18, 2012. Pakistan's indigenous UAV industry is centered on the state-owned defense enterprise Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra, east of Islamabad.
Friday, October 19, 2012, 08:34 AM

Turkey’s leading armored vehicles manufacturer, Otokar, will launch a production line in Kazakhstan to produce the Cobra 4x4 light armoured vehicle, the company said in a statement. A memorandum of understanding for the venture was signed Oct. 12 in Istanbul during the Turkish-Kazakh Investment and Commerce Forum, the statement said.
Friday, October 19, 2012, 04:45 AM

Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of general staff of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), met with a delegation of academies of the Lao People’s Army (LPA) headed by Brigadier Thongloi, president of the National Defense College of the LPA, in Beijing on October 17, 2012. Ma Xiaotian said that China and Laos are close and friendly neighbors, and China attaches great importance to developing relations with Laos.
Friday, October 19, 2012, 04:20 AM

The nominated candidate for Georgian defense minister on Thursday promised that the South Caucasus country would continue its participation in the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan until 2014.
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Friday, October 19, 2012, 03:55 AM

The Russian armed forces are to carry out live firing tests of the Army's Pantsyr short-range gun-missile air defense system against cruise missile targets for the first time at a range in northern Russia, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday, October 17, 2012. "The Pantsyr will be tested in live attacks for the first time against real cruise missile targets on the range," a Defense Ministry source said.
Thursday, October 18, 2012, 09:27 AM

A contingent of Ugandan troops are in neighbouring Rwanda for a two week long multinational military exercise involving the five member countries of the East African Community (EAC).
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Thursday, October 18, 2012, 04:06 AM

United States and Israel military will hold a joint exercise next week, with testing missile defense one of the main objectives, U.S. and Israeli officials announced Wednesday, October 17, 2012. The drill, Exercise Austere Challenge 2012, will involve more than 3,500 U.S. service members and be conducted throughout Israel and off-shore.
Thursday, October 18, 2012, 03:32 AM

Chad has purchased 22 Bastions Patsas 4x4 Special Forces protected vehicle designed and manufactured by the French Company ACMAT, a subdivision of Renault Trucks Defense. The vehicle will be used by the country's presidential guard.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 04:27 PM

Elbit Systems launched today a new member of the Dominator® IICS (Integrated Infantry Combat System) solution: Dominator-Light Dismounted (LD), a new lightweight version, geared specifically for the tactical dismounted infantry soldier and Special Forces.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 03:37 PM

Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro and visiting Indian Defense Minister Shri AK Antony met here on Tuesday, October 16, 2012, to seek further defense cooperation between the two countries. "I expect this bilateral meeting would improve our cooperation in the defense sector to higher level," Purnomo said in his remarks to welcome his Indian counterpart and his entourage.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 08:42 AM

Russia's Aerospace Defense Force successfully tested a short-range anti-missile defense system on Tuesday, October 16, 2012, a Defense Ministry spokesman told RIA Novosti. "The Aerospace Forces and defense industry successfully tested a Russian short-range interceptor missile at Sary-Shagan range at 12.01 p.m. on Tuesday, October 16," Col. Alexei Zolotukhin said.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 06:33 PM

The O'Gara Group, Inc., a global provider of security products and services, announced today that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement with BAE Systems Survivability Systems LLC to acquire BAE Systems Commercial Armored Vehicles LLC.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 05:43 PM

Australian Minister for Defence Stephen Smith and Minister for Defence Materiel Jason Clare today announced that the Government had approved the purchase of an additional two artillery batteries of Lightweight Towed Howitzers, comprising 19 M777A2 155mm howitzers. The cost of the additional 19 howitzers is around $70 million.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 03:20 PM

Serbia and Pakistan are considering defense cooperation, including possible export of ammunition, armored vehicles and assault rifles to the Asian country. Serbia has been trying since 2009 to arrange such sales and an agreement may be reached after a visit by Pakistani Defense Minister Syed Naveed Qamar to several defense producers in the Balkan country, Serbia’s Defense Minister Aleksandar Vucic told reporters in Belgrade today after meeting with Qamar. Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 08:12 AM

United States congressmen are attempting to initiate a measure that could lead to the shared production of the Iron Dome system’s Tamir missiles in the US, both to assist Israel and to have the system operated by the US to protect US forces around the world.
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Monday, October 15, 2012, 02:23 PM

The European Union has approved a new plan to deploy 3,000 peacekeeping troops in Syria, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said. The plan was first introduced by Lakhdar Brahimi, the new UN-Arab League peace envoy to Syria. The soldiers sent to Syria will possibly include European nationals.
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Monday, October 15, 2012, 01:51 PM

A senior Iranian military commander said that the country's newly unveiled Hazem (Determination) drones are multi-purpose and multi-range vehicles with air-defense, reconnaissance and aerial bombardment capabilities.
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Monday, October 15, 2012, 01:15 PM

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said here Saturday, October 13, 2012, that Ankara will do what is necessary if Syria again violates its border. "We will do what needs to be done if our border is violated again," he told reporters while he had a bilateral meeting with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on the Syrian crisis in Istanbul's Hilton Hotel.
Monday, October 15, 2012, 12:26 AM

Polish President Krzysztof Krystowski, along with Vice-President Marcin Idzik, Under-Secretary of Polish State in Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Boguslaw Winid and Under-Secretary of Polish State in Ministry of National Defence, Gen. Waldemar Skrzypczak, participated in the official visit in Macedonia, which purpose was to promote Polish defence industry.
Monday, October 15, 2012, 08:53 AM

Elbit Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE: ESLT ("Elbit Systems"), announced Sunday, October 14, 2012, that it was awarded two contracts from a Far Eastern country to supply defense and artillery ATMOS systems at a total value of approximately $50 million.
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Sunday, October 14, 2012, 01:45 PM

For the first time in more than two decades, American armored vehicles will travel across farmland as part of a massive force-on-force exercise that stretches between major Army training areas. Dubbed “Saber Junction” and expected to involve more than 6,000 soldiers from the U.S. and other NATO nations, the exercise harkens back to a Cold War era of training when civilian land sometimes played a role.
Sunday, October 14, 2012, 10:20 AM

Seventeen NATO countries will be equipped in the future with the new Russian shotgun rifle Vepr-12, annonced the Russian State Corporation of Technologies Rostekhnologii, on Friday, October 12, 2012. Based on the Kalashnikov assault rifle, the Vepr 12 is designed by the Russsian factory Molot.
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Saturday, October 13, 2012, 06:55 PM

Turkey bolstered military presence on the border with Syria by deploying 250 tanks and 55 jets of various models on Friday, October 12, 2012, after a Syrian military helicopter bombed the Syrian border town of Azmarin.
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Saturday, October 13, 2012, 12:41 AM

As Northrop Grumman's subsidiary Remotec Inc. continues to develop innovative, affordable, more capable robotic systems for first responders and the military, it is introducing two new developments to the unmanned ground vehicle market with Titus and Lobster UGV.
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Saturday, October 13, 2012, 10:57 AM

Saint-Gobain Crystals has been awarded a three-year contract, valued at approximately $20 million , to supply the U.S. Army and Marine Corps with sapphire engineered armor and tooling to make bulletproof windshields and door windows for the M142 HIMARS High Mobility Artillery Rocket Launcher.
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Saturday, October 13, 2012, 10:35 AM