Army

Ethiopia Has More Chinese Artillery Than Thought?

defence24.pl 1 year ago The Ethiopian Armed Forces boasted last year that it acquired the SH-15 wheeled artillery systems from the Chinese arms concern Norinco. According to the photos that appeared at the time, the acquisition was expected to include 32 units, but...

Argentina strengthens tank armor

defence24.pl 1 year ago The Argentine Army has signed a $3.14 million contract for the supply of side aprons for the TAM 2 tanks as part of their modernization to the TAM 2C standard. Impasa will be liable for their delivery.

WDS24: Turkey presents a fresh generation wheeled...

defence24.pl 1 year ago During the planet defence Show 2024 in Saudi Arabia, the Turkish concern FNSS Savunma Sistemleri A.Ş. showed its fresh PARS ALPHA 8x8 vehicle.

Russia is equally inclined. alternatively of impr...

defence24.pl 1 year ago Russia boasts military spending expected to be 7 times higher than the average of NATO countries. Kremlin propaganda does not add that this concerns the percent of gross home product, and not its size, which in 2023 places Russia...

MBDA and Saab strengthen cooperation

zbiam.pl 1 year ago On 31 January, the global industrial group MBDA and the Swedish company Saab signed an agreement to establish strategical cooperation. This is part of the strengthening of defence cooperation between France (MBDA France supplies to Sweden, for exa...

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GLADIUS Flying Artillery. Operators, Commanders, A...

defence24.pl 1 year ago Defence24 in the 18th Artillery Regiment in Nowa Dęba, we visited a subdivision equipped with the first elements of the Gladius reconnaissance and strike strategy with unmanned reconnaissance FT-5 Elk, combat BSP-U and school BSP-UT. The first comm...

Orbán is blocking Sweden again. Boycott of the vot...

defence24.pl 1 year ago Monday's gathering was convened by Marshal László Köver at the request of the opposition, which is demanding that Fidesz accept Sweden as shortly as possible into NATO. In the absence of members of the ruling coalition in the plenary...

NATO countries buy AT4 grenade launchers

zbiam.pl 1 year ago On February 5, the Swedish concern Saab announced the signing of an agreement with the NSPA (NATO Support and Procurement Agency) for the production and supply of another batch of AT4 disposable grenade launchers.

The Netherlands buys missiles for Apache and drone...

defence24.pl 1 year ago According to the US State Department, the decision to sale a batch of AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank guided missiles to the Netherlands has been approved. Together with another equipment, the maximum transaction value is expected to be $150 million.

Roketsan's 4 contracts with the Turkish Ministry ...

zbiam.pl 1 year ago On February 2, during a specially organized ceremony, the Ministry of defence of the Republic of Turkey concluded 4 contracts with Roketsan Roket Sanayii ve Ticaret A.S. for the acquisition of rocket weapons for the Turkish Land Forces (Türk Kara...

Norway: Lightning Hunters. They hunt helicopters a...

defence24.pl 1 year ago As part of the Norwegian battalion of jeegers guarding the border with Russia, a platoon of portable air defence is organized. This subdivision was armed with Polish plan launchers of the Lightning system. In the event of war, instead...

World defence Show 2024: ZM Tarnów at the arms fa...

zbiam.pl 1 year ago From 4 to 8 February 2024, the planet defence Show 2024 (WDS 2024) takes place in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This is the second edition of the fair event dedicated to the defence sector organized under the patronage of King Salman Bin Abdula...

Sikorski: In Europe there is talk of readiness for...

defence24.pl 1 year ago The head of the Polish Ministry of abroad Affairs admitted in a fresh interview that in European countries there is more and more talk of readiness for war with Russia. He added that Western countries' perception of the situation...

Poznań will modify combat reconnaissance vehicles

defence24.pl 1 year ago At the beginning of February, the 1st Regional Logistics Base in Wałcz announced the conclusion of another contract for repairs and modification of combat reconnaissance vehicles BWR-1D/S with Wojskowe Zakłady Motoryzacji S.A. in Poznań. The work wil...

New amphibious assault ship for US Navy completes ...

zbiam.pl 1 year ago The Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingals Industries announced the completion of trials of the San Antonio-type landing ship, the future USS Richard M. McCool Jr., which took place in the Gulf of Mexico. USS Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD 29...

WDS24: Saudi Arabia wants to be self-sufficient in...

defence24.pl 1 year ago For decades, Saudi Arabia has been associated — and rightly so — with a country that spends tens of billions of dollars on Western weapons systems. Now Riyadh has an ambitious plan to build its own defence industry, which...

Poland wants state-of-the-art ammunition for the A...

defence24.pl 1 year ago The Ordnance Agency continues to intend to procure state-of-the-art anti-tank ammunition for Abrams tanks of the M829A4 type. Unofficial information from Defence24.pl indicates that in parallel negotiations are being conducted on the construction of ...

Swiss Leopards 2A4 go to Germany

zbiam.pl 1 year ago On 30 January, the Swiss national Armament Authority (Armasuisse) handed over the first batch of Leopard 2A4 base tanks to the industrial group Rheinmetall AG. A batch of 9 wagons, out of 25 acquired by Rheinmetall, was transported to the fresh ow...

Guam. Americans are worried about China's attack

cyberdefence24.pl 1 year ago [Guam] (https://maps.app.goo.gl/9nCehHaFWq9D3G2L6), where American forces are located, is **of strategical importance to the United States**. This is due to the location of the island and its function in the event of an escalation of the situation ...

Ten candidates in the Integrated Pilot Training st...

zbiam.pl 1 year ago On February 5, the spokesperson of the Arms Agency, Lt. Col. Grzegorz Polak, in consequence to questions from the ZBiAM editorial office, informed about the interest of the manufacture in the program of integrated training strategy for combat ch...

Ukraine: Cannons and Rifles Against Russian Missil...

defence24.pl 1 year ago Artillery anti-aircraft kits, like various types of device guns, let the Ukrainian army to save valuable missiles while countering Russian air raid measures. Was it possible to shoot down Russian missiles again thanks to inexpensive ammunition?

Baptism of the 5th Borie-A submarine with ballist...

zbiam.pl 1 year ago February 3 at the shipyard of AO “PO Sewmash” in Severodvinsk, with the participation of the commander of the Navy Adm. Nikolai Yevmenov, the baptism and symbolic launch (in fact, rolling out of the assembly hall) of the strategical nuclear-powered ...

Tatra Trucks summed up 2023 — more than half of th...

zbiam.pl 1 year ago On February 2, the Czech company Tatra Trucks a.s., owned by Czechoslovak Group, published information summarizing production in 2023. The company produced and sold 1451 vehicles last year. The entity continues to focus on the improvement and produc...

Gaza Strip: Israeli airstrikes continue, fighting ...

defence24.pl 1 year ago Despite Israeli airstrikes in 2 Gaza cities, fighting with Hamas continued on Sunday: in Gaza City in the north of the territory and in Khan Yunus in the south. According to Reuters, they show that Hamas continues to maintain...

Germany to improve French artillery with artificia...

defence24.pl 1 year ago French defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced that artificial intelligence will be utilized to increase the firing efficiency of CAESAR artillery systems. The German startup Helsing AI will be liable for the work.

Israel: “MiG-Killers” inactive Fighting

defence24.pl 1 year ago **The Israeli Air Force continues to usage F-15A fighter aircraft belonging to the first variant. The machines, of course, have been thoroughly modernized, but they inactive usage older types of weapons as well. **

Italy with a fresh generation anti-missile shield...

defence24.pl 1 year ago **OCCAR, which coordinates European armaments projects, has signed an annex to the contract for the supply of SAMP/T anti-aircraft kits, on the basis of which the ground forces of Italy will receive a ground kit in a fresh generation...

AGM-154C JSOW Dispensers for Taiwan

zbiam.pl 1 year ago On February 2, the United States Department of defence announced the signing of an agreement with RTX corp for the production and supply of a batch of AGM-154C JSOW Block III soaring tanks. The recipient of the weapon is Taiwan.

Monday Media Review; Are We Ready for War? ; The a...

defence24.pl 1 year ago Daily review of the safety and defence sector media.

COD on NOTAM for east Poland

defence24.pl 1 year ago The Operational Command of Types of Armed Forces, published a communication, related to the navigation informing for airspace users, issued together with the Polish Air Navigation Agency.

Danish frigate strengthens anti-aircraft umbrella ...

defence24.pl 1 year ago The Danish frigate “Iver Huitfeldt” has joined forces in the Red Sea protecting civilian shipping from rocket attacks by Houthi rebels. This does not mean, however, that the American-led Operation Prosperity Guardian is beginning to truly take on a...

The Red Beret Armoured Cannon will start again

defence24.pl 1 year ago Some time ago on Defence24.pl, editor Adam Świerkowski wrote about the task led by volunteers to reconstruct the ISU-122 armored gun. As it turns out, this is not the only task of restoration of very rare, historical military vehicles...

Red Beret Armoured Cannon Under Restoration

A fresh maneuver of air-to-missile strikes. In t...

defence24.pl 1 year ago Immediately after the attack on December 29, the first information appeared about the change in the tactics of air-to-missile strikes — this time 1 of the main targets was to be facilities related to the broadly understood military-defense industry,...

Other players in the Red Sea [ANALYSIS]

defence24.pl 1 year ago **The situation close the Bab al-Mandab Strait is not improving and there are regular attacks from the Huti. Western countries have no thought how to contain the threat, and planet transport has been routed circular the Cape of Good...

Progress of the “Agility Prime” program

zbiam.pl 1 year ago On January 29, the United States Air Force (USAF) completed a three-month evaluation survey of BETA Technologies' Alia electric-powered aircraft. This is the next step in the USAF's “Agility Prime” program, evaluating the feasibility of deploying ve...

France orders rockets in its industry

defence24.pl 1 year ago The French General Directorate of Armaments (DGA) announced the signing of contracts with MBDA France for the supply of 1300 Akeron MP anti-tank guided missiles and 329 missiles for Mistral 3 anti-aircraft systems.

Additional backing for the Norwegian MH-60R Seaha...

zbiam.pl 1 year ago On February 2, the US Department of defence announced that it had signed an agreement with Lockheed Martin to carry out additional work on six MH-60R Seahawk multirole helicopters ordered by Norway.

Slovakia buys 155mm artillery ammunition

zbiam.pl 1 year ago On 26 January, the Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic ordered from ZVS Holding 155 mm artillery ammunition for 155 mm self-propelled guns on the ZUZANA 2 wheeled chassis of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic (Ozbrajené sily Slovenskiej R...

Kazakhstan continues to acquisition Airbus C-295 ...

zbiam.pl 1 year ago On February 1, the government of Kazakhstan announced that it had signed an agreement with Airbus on the acquisition of another C-295MW light transport aircraft intended for the country's public safety services.

Weekly Letter 27.01 — 2.02.2024

strategyandfuture.org 1 year ago As The Wall Street diary reported on Saturday, president Biden's administration is expected to announce subsidies — created, say, under the CHIPS and discipline Act — to companies producing advanced microprocessors. Among the beneficiaries are me...

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US strikes targets in Syria and Iraq

zbiam.pl 1 year ago On February 2, U.S. Central Command reported that the United States had carried out air and rocket strikes against ground targets in Iraq and Syria. It was retaliation for the fresh attacks on American bases in which personnel of the United States...

US strikes in Syria and Iraq

defence24.pl 1 year ago The US military has struck from the air at more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria linked to Iran's muslim Revolutionary defender Corps, the Pentagon said. It was a consequence to the attack on a US base in...

More Upgraded Artillery for the U.S. Army

defence24.pl 1 year ago BAE Systems has been awarded a $418 million contract to supply additional M109A7 artillery systems and M992A3 artillery ammunition vehicles.

India a step closer to General Atomics MQ-9B

zbiam.pl 1 year ago On February 1, the US Department of State announced the approval of the Indian request for proposals regarding the anticipation of purchasing a large number of General Atomics MQ-9B unmanned aerial vehicles.

"Little Blue Men". How the maritime militia suppor...

defence24.pl 1 year ago The expanding tension around Taiwan and incidents in the South China Sea, combined with the continuous expansion of the possible of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLA), have been focusing the attention of analysts dealing with safet...

New ships for the naval forces of the Republic of ...

zbiam.pl 1 year ago On January 31, the Ministry of defence of the Republic of India signed an agreement with the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders (MDL) shipyard in Mumbai for the construction of 14 FPV (Fast Patrol Vessel) fast patrol vessels intended for the Indian Coast def...

The West must start learning lessons from past [O...

defence24.pl 1 year ago Soon it will be 2 years since the full-scale war in Ukraine began. This is an event that is and will be material for investigation and analysis in the field of military science, the arms industry, innovation and ingenuity...