KYSEA approved the purchase of 100 Spike NLOS missiles to arm AH-64A attack helicopters of the Hellenic Army Air Corps, the upgrade of 19 of the helicopters by Israeli company Elbit, and the certification of nine of them to be armed with the air-to-ground version of Spike NLOS. (Boeing)
Greece’s Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defence (KYSEA) chaired by Prime Minister Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos approved the purchase of Spike Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) systems and missiles for all three services on 29 March.
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Congressman Cory Mills of Florida announced during a recent Congressional hearing impeachment articles against Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for dereliction of duty.
WOAH: In the presence of @SecDef Lloyd Austin, Rep. @CoryMillsFL announces Articles of Impeachment against SecDef Austin for Dereliction of Duty!
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Thales XTRAIM weapon sight mounted on a Sig Sauer MCX Virtus .300 BLK rifle. (Janes/Amael Kotlarski)
Thales demonstrated a combination of its XTRAIM thermal weapon sight and Nellie night-vision goggles (NVGs) at the SOFINS 2023 defence exhibition, near Bordeaux, France.
The two systems were tested on a course replicating night type four and five environments, and the XTRAIM’s fused mode was used to detect thermally active targets that would have been almost impossible to detect using an image intensified device alone.
MBDA Enforcer. (Janes/Amael Kotlarski)
MBDA’s Enforcer lightweight missile launcher is in the final qualification phases and first deliveries to the German customer are expected in 2024, company officials told
Janes
at the SOFINS 2023 exhibition, near Bordeaux, France.
Developed by MBDA Germany at the request of German special forces, the Enforcer is designed to complement the Wirkmittel 90 (RGW 90) already in use.
Nexter Colibri loitering munition. (Janes/Amael Kotlarski)
Nexter revealed the design of its Dard (Stinger) loitering munition at the SOFINS 2023 defence exhibition, held near Bordeaux, France.
The Dard was selected as part of France’s Colibri project, launched in May 2022 by the Direction générale de l’armement (DGA) and the Agence de l’innovation de défense (AID). The Colibri project seeks to rapidly develop an indigenous, low-cost loitering munition for use with the French Armed Forces.
The Taliban government has restored High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles or Humvees abandoned by the US in Afghanistan. The above picture shows the US Army exercise with a Humvee. (US Army)
The Taliban government in Afghanistan has restored at least 341 vehicles and 1,050 military weapons abandoned by the US during its withdrawal from the country in 2021.
In a social media post, Afghanistan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) said it restored 300 unusable US military vehicles.
The 105 mm CS/AH2 howitzer, pictured above, is similar in all aspects to the BAE systems L118/L119 (105 mm) light howitzer. The gun is produced by Poly Technologies, with likely involvement from Norinco. (Poly Technologies Inc)
Thailand’s Defense Technology Institute (DTI) has signed a
memorandum of understanding
(MOU) with the Artillery Center of the Royal Thai Army (RTA) for the research and development (R&D) of a 105 mm CS/AH2 light howitzer prototype.
FILE: An HH-60 Pavehawk with the 101st Rescue Squadron, 106th Rescue Wing conducts training around Westhampton Beach, Nov. 25, 2014. (N.Y. Air National Guard / Senior Airman Christopher S Muncy / released).
Nine soldiers were killed on Wednesday night when two Army HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters from the 101st Airborne Division crashed in Kentucky, said Lt. Col. Anthony Hoefler, a spokesman for the division.
The two helicopters were conducting a routine training mission at the time of the accident, the 101st Airborne Division said in a statement.
HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters fly on August 23, 2021, at Fort Campbell, KY. (Capt. Phuong Dinh/U.S. Army).
Nine soldiers were killed on Wednesday night when two Army HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from the 101st Airborne Division crashed in Kentucky, said Lt. Col. Anthony Hoefler, a spokesman for the division.
Based out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, the two helicopters crashed just after 10 p.m. local time on Wednesday near Highway 68, per local news organization WKRN. Fort Campbell straddles the state line between Kentucky and Tennessee.
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The German Ministry of Defence (MoD) is planning to allocate €12bn in additional funds to strengthen the defensive capabilities of Ukrainian soldiers.
This announcement comes after the Budget Committee of Germany’s parliament, Bundestag, granted its approval during a meeting held on 29 March.
The meeting was also attended by German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius.
Out of the total sanctioned funding, around €3.