Israel has submitted a formal request to the US government for 25 F-15EX fighter aircraft, according to industry sources who spoke to Breaking Defense. An official letter of request was reportedly sent by the Israeli Ministry of Defense last week, marking the first step in the foreign military sale process. Jerusalem will now have to wait for […]
Berlin on Wednesday approved the delivery of powerful German-made Leopard tanks to help Ukraine repel Russia’s invasion, after weeks of pressure from Kyiv and many allies. Germany will provide a company of 14 Leopard 2 A6 tanks from the Bundeswehr stocks, government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said in a statement. It also granting approval for other European countries to […]
Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky has delivered its 5,000th Hawk medium-lift helicopter to the US armed forces. The chopper is a variant of the UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter deployed for international military and civilian operations. “For more than 40 years the Black Hawk has remarkably supported Soldiers in every major contingency operation the Army has executed,” US Army […]
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has inked an agreement with Northrop Grumman to cooperate on vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial system development. The domestically-developed drones will be deployed on naval destroyers and coast guard patrol ships for various missions, such as surveillance, reconnaissance, and target acquisition. Northrop has extensive experience in VTOL drone technology. Its MQ-8 […]
A Swiss parliamentary commission voted Tuesday to request a change to the country’s laws to allow its war material to be transferred via third countries to Ukraine. Switzerland has so far refused to allow countries that hold Swiss-made weaponry to export it on to war-ravaged Ukraine, in line with its strict military neutrality. Under Switzerland’s War Materiel Act, export requests cannot be […]
India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has signed an agreement with Naval Group to upgrade the country’s Kalvari-class submarines. As part of the deal, the French defense firm will integrate a domestically-built air-independent propulsion system into the service’s “INS Kalvari” submarine. The system will improve the performance and lethality of diesel-electric underwater vessels and […]
Germany has started delivery and deployment of a Patriot air defense system to Poland to help secure its airspace amid increasing tension in the region. A military transport aircraft carrying the first two batteries for the Patriot system set off from north Germany on Monday morning, according to public German broadcaster NDR. They will be deployed in the […]
France is willing to provide India with the “best technology” to modernize its armed forces, French ambassador Emmanuel Lenain revealed Sunday. The statement comes as New Delhi continues to find ways to reduce its dependence on Russia for military hardware. Lenain suggested that Paris is a “great option” to help build a military-industrial base in the South […]
KYIV/BERLIN, Jan 19 (Reuters) – Ukraine pleaded on Thursday for the West to finally send it heavy tanks as the defence chiefs of the United States and Germany headed for a showdown over weapons Kyiv says could decide the fate of the war. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will be in Germany on Thursday and […]
Shoigu facing nationalist criticism over setbacks in Ukraine