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I would love to see the CH-47F in service. It is proven, cheaper and offers more variable uses. Boeing sided with multiple companies in Germany, hinting around about local production and the local usage of us maintaining the helicopters locally, of course the companies signed up with Boeing are...

The United Arab Emirates' International Golden Group (IGG) teamed with Slovenia's Valhalla Turrets to develop a 57 mm Desert Spider remote-controlled weapon system (RCWS). Now in a prototype stage, the system was designed to protect high-value targets (HVTs) such as conventional and nuclear...

The UAE is the first known operator of the AH4. Source: Norinco The United Arab Emirates (UAE) military confirmed it has acquired Norinco AH4 gun-howitzers on 21 February, when it announced on the last day of the IDEX show held in Abu Dhabi that it had awarded an AED30 million (USD8.2 million)...

is there any chance of Iran getting the S-400 or is it not going to happen because of the Bavar 373 development?

are the Seakings being upgraded or is there a plan to phase them out?

in order to get VTOLs, they need to buy something larger then a Mistral, such as you previously mentioned like a Wasp class because Mistrals are smaller. however I really don't see the legitimate need of the Saudis to really focus on LHD/Carrier. I heard rumors that the Saudis did spend a bit...

Before Egypt acquired the 2 Mistrals from France that were built for the Russians, Saudi Arabia expressed interest in acquiring them. however the Saudis need to focus on their main fleet with buying additional frigates, corvettes and working on acquiring something like U-209/214 before moving...

Qatar decided to not complete the E-737 AWAC procurement https://www.janes.com/article/83903/qatar-opts-not-to-complete-e-737-aew-c-deal something they also have that is a bit more powerful then the M142 is the SY-400

1. The Luftwaffe will replace 33 Tranche 1 Eurofighter with 33 latest Tranche 4 (!) Eurofighter. 2. The Luftwaffe has the goal to contribute NATO the promised capabilities: SEAD meaning the unique ECR Tornado role and nuclear strike ability. Therefore the F-18G and E/F in the newest block...

people mock and laugh at countries who reverse engineer/copy such as Iran or China or whoever, but reverse engineering actually helps develop a countries industry which grows and helps them expand and makes more indigenious weapons.

I find this competition very interesting. I heard the US is pitching the EA-18G Growler to Finland but I'm not sure that's completely correct, and the F-35 then you have SAAB's proposal and of course GMBH's Eurofighter and Dassault's Rafale I think the contract should be awarded to SAAB due to...

how many BUK-M3 and TOR-M2 planned for the air defence?

Kurds think their elite forces are strong enough, but each time Turkey comes they drop weapons and run with their tail between their legs they managed to fight at the beginning of all the NATO supplied aid and advising, but other than that the Kurds in my opinion can not fight.

France already threaten to end the JV on the plane if we don't agree to "unlimited export" to countries, including those in conflict. this is a common thing in Europe, failed JVs. take the FREMM & Type 45 development. the UK wanted to mount the radar (found on the Type 45) onto the FREMM, which...

so apparently Azerbaijan got the MD530 and Bell 407

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-01-17/qatar-gives-somalia-armored-vehicles Qatar donated 68 armored vehicles to Somalia on Thursday, Qatar's defense ministry said, a sign that Doha is pushing for influence in the country with the role of its Gulf rival, the United Arab Emirates...

https://www.janes.com/article/85744/india-s-mod-reissues-rfi-for-carbines-and-lmgs India's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has invited responses by 4 February to its supplementary request for information (RFI) regarding the planned acquisition of 360,000 5.56×45 mm close quarter battle (CQB) carbines...

is the J-15 still under construction or is China focusing on other Shenyang, Chengdu models?

Algeria's recently acquired SM4 120mm Mortar