Weekend Briefing (25-29 October)
Welcome to the Weekend Briefing, where we round up the week’s most interesting and important defence news and comment. We are closing out this month with stories gathered by our team of international writers. This week we have covered protests in Sudan, Indian ballistic missile tests, TB-2 drone use in the Donbas conflict, and we took an in-depth look Greece’s Rapidly Increasing Arms Supply and Its Impact on Turkish-Greek Tension in the Aegean Sea. Check out this week’s articles below:
US Navy Exploring Procurement Of “Tactical Surrogate Aircraft”
Bell Completes first Bahraini Viper ahead of 2022 Delivery
US Secretary of Defense Visits Georgia, Romania and Ukraine
Turkey and South Korea Sign a Declaration of Intent for Altay Tank Engine
Protests In Sudan’s Capital Against Military Coup
New RAND Report Asses China-Russia Cooperation
Iran Hopes To Purchase Helicopters and Fighter Aircraft From Russia
Kyrgyzstan Purchases Bayraktar TB2 UAVs From Turkey
British Army Vehicle Headsets Under Investigation For Hearing Risks
Ukraine’s TB-2 Performs First Missile Launch In Retaliatory Strike
Ukraine Receives Military Aid From The United States Including Anti-Tank and High-Precision Weapons
Modernized Mi-24PU1 Helicopters Are Delivered To The Armed Forces of Ukraine
India Successfully Tests The Nuclear-Capable Agni-V Ballistic Missile
US Army Contracts General Atomics-Boeing Team To Build High Energy Laser Weapon Prototype
Sri Lanka Takes Delivery of Ex-USCGC Douglas Munro
General Dynamics Teams With Epirus For Vehicle Integration Of Microwave Anti-Drone System
Royal Navy Submarine Makes Rare Visit to Australia as Australia’s Future Submarine Begins to Take Shape
Ruling Party of Bosnia’s Serb Entity Threatens To Reform Bosnian Serb Army
UK-India maiden Tri-service Exercise Konkan Shakti Concludes
US Naval Forces Central Command’s Unmanned Task Force Completes First At-Sea Exercise
Greece’s Rapidly Increasing Arms Supply and Its Impact on Turkish-Greek Tension in the Aegean Sea
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