ASELSAN Signs € 135.1 Million and TRY 1.6 Billion Contract
ASELSAN and the Secretariat of Defence Industries (SSB) signed a contract to produce Air Defence Systems for the Turkish Armed Forces.
Defence News
Weapon / Missile
Expo and Air Show
Estonian Defence Expo Defest Cancelled, no date provision
Estonia’s first international defence expo Defest 2024 is cancelled just days before its opening. The expo published a notice
Weapon / Missile
Putin Announces the Oreshnik Intermediate-Range Missile
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the missile used in the mysterious strike on Ukraine as the conventionally armed Oreshnik.
Air
Homeland Security
JÖAK Demonstrates Deployment With T625 Gökbey
Turkish Gendarmie's special forces unit JÖAK's operators demonstrated deployment with the service's new T625 Gökbey utility helicopter.
Navy / Maritime
Air
Logistics
The U.S. Orders Additional KC-46 Tankers and P-8A MPA
The U.S. DoD has awarded Boeing a new $4 billion contract, including extra KC-46 tankers and P-8A Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA).
Air
Brazil to Upgrade A-29s for Interoperability Purposes
The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) upgrades 68 A-29s to A-29Ms for interoperability with the F-39 Gripen.
Navy / Maritime
Norway to Replace the ‘Fridtjof Nansen’ Class Frigates
Norway is focused on participating in an active production frigate program to minimize the need to upgrade the Fridtjof Nansen class.
Regional / Strategy
Defence Politics
European Defence Industry Strechens Muscles
ASD presented its Facts & Figures 2024 report, an analysis of 2023’s performance which underlines an increase at the industry income.
Unmanned Systems
Sensors
ASELSAN Exports ASELFLIR-500 to Croatia
CEO Ahmet Akyol announced that the recent Bayraktar TB2 armed UAV export to Croatia includes the ASELFLIR-500 EO/IR system.
Air
Sensors
The U.S. Army Wants AESA Radars on AH-64 Helicopters
The U.S. Army has published an RFI to integrate multi-function AESA radars into its AH-64 Apache attack helicopters.
Land
Expo and Air Show
Brazil May Prefer Polish Borsuk AFV
According to the Brazilian press, the country's Army wants to acquire 78 Polish Borsuk armoured fighting vehicles as part of the "VBC Fuz" program.
Air
Germany Receives its First H145M Light-Armed Helicopter
Germany announced receiving the first light-armed reconnaissance twin-turboshaft helicopter, Airbus H-145M.
Navy / Maritime
Expo and Air Show
ASFAT Participates in IDEAS 2024
ASFAT, a player in modernising the Pakistani Navy with PN MİLGEM and Jinnah-class frigate projects, is exhibiting its products at IDEAS 2024 in Pakistan.
Weapon / Missile
Mysterious Missile Hits Ukraine with Multiple Warheads
Ukraine claimed that a conventionally armed ICBM hit the Dnipro region as footage of multiple high-speed projectiles spread.
