Last week, Naval Group, France’s leading shipbuilding company, delivered the second Gowind-class corvette, “Al Emarat”, to the United Arab Emirates Navy, successfully completing the agreement signed in 2019. The United… Continue reading "United Arab Emirates Navy Receives Second Gowind 2500 Class Al Emarat Corvette From The Naval Group"
ASELSAN, Turkey’s leading defense company, exhibited a version of the KORKUT Air Defense Gun System integrated into the chassis of Otokar’s 8×8 ARMA tactical wheeled armored vehicle for the first… Continue reading "ASELSAN Exhibits The KORKUT Air Defense Gun System Integrated on an 8X8 Armored Vehicle For The First Time At Eurosatory 2024"
On June 17, the Belgian Ministry of Defence ordered 17 H145M utility helicopters from Airbus Helicopters via the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA). The agreement, which is part of… Continue reading "Belgium To Procure 17 H145M Utility Helicopters From Airbus Helicopters"
On June 11, the Estonian Ministry of Defense announced a new military aid package for Ukraine to meet urgent air defense needs in the face of ongoing Russian aggression. According… Continue reading "Estonia To Provide An Unspecified Number of Mistral MANPADS to Ukraine"
The Luxembourg Ministry of Defense has announced that it will contribute 5 million Euros to the Artillery Coalition, which was launched by the United States and France in January to… Continue reading "Luxembourg To Finance The Purchase of a CAESAR Self-Propelled Howitzer for Ukraine"
When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed by the US Delta Force in Syria in October 2019, the fall of the Islamic State seemed imminent. Without a leader figure, the organization’s… Continue reading "IS-K – An Overlooked Threat?"
On May 24, the German Ministry of Defense (Bundesministerium der Verteidigung) announced on its X account that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had received the additional IRIS-T air defense system that… Continue reading "Germany Delivers Another IRIS-T Air Defense System To Ukraine"
This month, the German frigate Baden-Wuerttemberg set sail from the Spanish port of Rota for the Indo-Pacific. Separately, the combat support ship Frankfurt am Main departed from Wilhelmshaven, Germany. The… Continue reading "Two German Warships Set Sail for Pacific"
On May 9, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius visited Washington to meet with his counterpart at the Pentagon, Lloyd J. Austin, and announced plans to purchase three M142 HIMARS (High… Continue reading "Germany To Purchase Three M142 HIMARS Systems From US Stocks For Ukraine"
Milrem Robotics, a leading European developer of robotics and autonomous systems majority-owned by UAE-based EDGE Group, announced on April 16 that it has signed a contract to provide three THeMIS… Continue reading "Japan To Procure Three THeMIS Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) From Milrem Robotics"