Weapon / Missile News

76 mm Gun Installation to Future TCG İstanbul
Turkiye

76 mm Gun Installation to Future TCG İstanbul

Turkiye continues indigenous shipbuilding activities. 76 mm gun is installed at the TCG İstanbul at the İstanbul Naval Shipyard.

India to Acquire Rudram-1 Anti-Radiation Missile
India

India to Acquire Rudram-1 Anti-Radiation Missile

India will procure Rudram-1 anti-radiation missiles. The cost of the package is around USD171 million.

Roketsan’s Karaok Near its Delivery
Turkiye

Roketsan’s Karaok Near its Delivery

Roketsan’s Man-Portable Short-Range Fire-and-Forget Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MANPATS) KARAOK is in the final phase.

Pakistan displays the JF-17 that downed India’s MiG-21
Pakistan

Pakistan displays the JF-17 that downed India’s MiG-21

PAF displayed the JF-17 Thunder with the claim of hunting the Indian Air Force (IAF) MiG-21 at the IDEAS 2022 defence exhibition.

Samsun Yurt Savunma Cooperates with Pakistan
Pakistan Turkiye

Samsun Yurt Savunma Cooperates with Pakistan

Samsun Yurt Savunma is among the Turkish participants in the IDEAS 2022 defence exhibition and seminar.

Rheinmetall to Provide 27 mm Auto Cannons to F126 Frigates
Germany Netherlands

Rheinmetall to Provide 27 mm Auto Cannons to F126 Frigates

Damen Shipyard selected Rheinmetall for Germany’s F126 future frigate programme to equip the frigates with MLG27-4.0 remote weapon stations (RWSs).

Italy to Give the Green Light to SAMP/T
Italy Turkiye

Italy to Give the Green Light to SAMP/T

Meeting with President Erdoğan in Indonesia on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali, Italian Prime Minister Meloni gave the green light for the SAMP/H AD.

Bangladesh Secures Myanmar Border with Roketsan’s missiles
Bangladesh Turkiye

Bangladesh Secures Myanmar Border with Roketsan’s missiles

Roketsan exported TRG-230 and TRG-300 surface-to-surface missile systems and the TEBER Guidance Kit to convert general-purpose bombs into guided smart bombs.

Twin 14.5 mm machine guns to disable Shahed-136
Czechia Ukraine

Twin 14.5 mm machine guns to disable Shahed-136

Machine guns or cannons installed on Totoya pickups were the best choices for the African continent. Toyota appears in Ukraine now for similar operations.

Russia Orders Additional Tsirkon Hypersonic Missiles
Russia

Russia Orders Additional Tsirkon Hypersonic Missiles

According to the Russian state-owned news agency TASS, the defence ministry has placed another order for Tsirkon hypersonic missiles.

Iran Unveils Extended Range of Bavar-373 Missile; Sayyad 4B
Iran

Iran Unveils Extended Range of Bavar-373 Missile; Sayyad 4B

Iran unveiled a new homegrown Bavar-373 missile’s extended range version called Sayyad 4B. The Sayyad 46’s range has gone from 200 to 300 kilometres.

Lithuania Buys HIMARS
USA Lithuania

Lithuania Buys HIMARS

U.S. approved FMS to Lithuania of M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) Launchers and related equipment for an estimated cost of $495 million.

Oman Buys JSOW
USA Oman

Oman Buys JSOW

The State Department approved a possible FMS to Oman of Joint Stand-Off Weapons (JSOW) and related equipment for an estimated cost of $385 million.

Belgium Procures 120 AMRAAM
USA Belgium

Belgium Procures 120 AMRAAM

The State Department approved FMS to Belgium of AIM-120C-8 (AMRAAM) and related equipment for a total estimated cost of $380 million.