Weekend Briefing (20-24 February)

Welcome to Overt Defense’s Weekend Briefing, this is where we round up the week’s most interesting and important defense news. In this weekend’s edition, we look at HIMARS procurement in Europe, an Indian submarine visiting Indonesia for the first time, a successful US raid on a high-ranking ISIS official, Biden’s visit to Kiyv and the latest news from around the world. You can check out all of this week’s articles down below.

US Approves Sale of 20 HIMARS Systems to the Netherlands in $670 Million Deal

Poland Will Purchase All HIMARS It Can, says Ministry

President Biden Pays Kiyv an Unexpected Visit

US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for China Visits Taiwan

US Forces Kill High Ranking ISIS Leader Hamza al-Homsi In An Operation In Syria

UAE’s EDGE Buys Majority Stake in Milrem Robotics

EDGE To Supply The UAE Armed Forces With SHADOW and HUNTER Loitering Munitions

US Company World View Seeks to Use Stratospheric Balloons for National Security Missions

Polish Anti-Aircraft Systems In Ukraine Cross-Section

Kyrgyzstan Receives The First Batch of Pechora-2BM Air Defense Missile System From Belarus

Indonesia Takes Delivery of First C-130J Super Hercules

Rheinmetall to Produce F-35 Center Fuselage

FA-50 Triumphs In Malaysia’s Light Combat Aircraft Program

Indian Submarine Conducts First Ever Port Call In Indonesia

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