India’s state-run Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Limited unveiled the Dhanush 155 mm/52 calibre towed howitzer (pictured above) at Defexpo 2022, held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The company has proposed Dhanush for the Indian Army’s requirement of 155 mm/52 calibre towed guns. (Janes/Kapil Kajal)
India’s state-run Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Limited (AWEIL) has proposed Dhanush 155 mm/52 calibre towed gun systems and mounted gun systems (MGSs) armed with Dhanush for the Indian Army, Rajeev Sharma, AWEIL’s general manager, told Janes.
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Wars are much like Russian author Leo Tolstoy’s unhappy families. They are each wars in their own way. Historical comparisons can be simplistic and lead to false assumptions resulting from myopic thinking. There is no seamlessly transferrable model, but it would be foolish to discard history entirely. If probed carefully, history raises important questions for […]
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The skies over Ukraine resemble an aerial version of the World War I Battle of the Somme. In contrast to the first frenzied days over Kyiv, neither side is attempting to penetrate deep into the other’s airspace. Much like the machine guns in the French and German trenches, an array of surface-to-air missiles and defensive […]
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A Bayraktar TB2 UAV carrying Roketsan’s MAM-L and smaller MAM-C laser-guided bombs. Indonesia has shown interest in acquiring similar UCAVs and weapons for its requirements and is seeking foreign lenders to finance the purchase. (Baykar)
The Indonesian Ministry of Finance (MoF) has approved a request from the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) to procure unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) with foreign loans, and the country is evaluating suitable lenders for this.
The US State Department has approved a possible sale of High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) M142 launchers to Poland for an estimated price of $10 billion.
The price would include 18 HIMARS launchers and 468 launcher magazine module kits to be mounted on Polish trucks, according to Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak.
Iran’s secret underground air force installation, codenamed “Eagle 44,” was made public on Tuesday. According to IRNA, Iran’s state-run news agency, the first such site will house fighter jets equipped with long-range cruise missiles.
The photos show Iranian personnel and US-made F-4E Phantom II fighter bombers purchased before the 1979 revolution inside the facility.
Iran had already revealed its subterranean sites equipped with armed drones and ballistic missiles in official movies and photographs.
The Hughes 9203 BGAN Patrol manpack satcom system shown at the SAE Media Mobile Deployable Communications 2023 conference, London. The white square object is the BGAN modem, which is carried in the backpack. (Giles Ebbutt)
Inmarsat and Hughes have developed a new on-the-move (OTM) manpackable satellite communications (satcom) terminal for use with Inmarsat’s L-Band Tactical Satellite (L-TAC) service.
The conclusion of 12 Squadron’s deployment to Dukhan Airbase will see the Qatari and UK governments make a decision on the future of the joint Typhoon unit. (Crown Copyright)
The Qatari and UK governments are to decide if 12 Squadron is to be extended as a joint Eurofighter Typhoon unit after 2023, or if it will revert to being a Royal Air Force (RAF)-only unit.
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The decommissioning of the Dmitry Donskoy brings to an end the history of the iconic Typhoon class, made famous by the book The Hunt for Red October.
According to state media, the Russian Navy has officially decommissioned the Dmitry Donskoy nuclear ballistic missile submarine. This submarine has been the only remaining example of the iconic Typhoon class in service for years. The Typhoon remains the largest submarine of any class, by displacement, ever built.