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Boeing has been awarded a contract for producing and delivering 184 AH-64E Apache helicopters to US Army and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers.
Valued at approximately $1.9 billion, this is the third production contract for the Apache to be awarded to Boeing.
The initial AH-64E contract was awarded to Boeing in 2017, followed by the second multi-year award in 2019. The third multi-year contract now brings the total value to $2.1 billion.

With nearly 900 F-35s delivered to date, there are now more of these fighters in the sky than all other stealth aircraft combined.
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By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans
 

Transnistria owes its existence to a brief war in 1992 between Moldova and Russian-backed separatists who feared that Moldova would become part of Romania after the collapse of the USSR. The war ended when the Russian 14th Army, stationed in what was the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, intervened on behalf of Transnistria and defeated the forces of the newly independent Republic of Moldova.

China has been increasingly assertive in its claims over Taiwan in recent years, regularly conducting military exercises and sending fighter jets into Taiwan’s airspace. These aggressive moves have resulted in an increased Taiwan’s defence budget as Taipei seeks to modernise its military and acquire more advanced weapons systems to counter the threat from China.
Taiwan has refused to give in to the pressure and is consistently working with its closest ally, the US, to enhance its military capabilities.

“The suspects conducted intelligence activities against Poland and prepared acts of sabotage at the request of Russian intelligence.”
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The Archers will be drawn from Swedish Army stocks and enter into service in 2024. (Marcus Olsson/Försvarsmakten)
The UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD’s) announcement on 16 March that the British Army is to receive BAE Systems Bofors Archer self-propelled howitzers (SPHs) will see the army take into service a more mobile, leaner-crewed platform than the AS90, currently in its inventory.
Fourteen Archers will be transferred to the British Army from Swedish Army stocks, and these will serve as an interim replacement for the 32 AS90 SPHs gifted to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Changing culture has been a vital facet of the federal innovation space from the very beginning. But unfortunately, culture has become increasingly viewed as a buzzword rather than a necessary part of bridging the Valley of Death. This stigma against culture change has not stopped Rear Adm. Seiko Okano, who argues that culture and ownership are at the crux of the transition problem.
Dcode spoke with Rear Adm. Okano, the Navy’s program executive officer for Integrated Warfare Systems, about the Valley of Death and her cultural approach to fixing the transition problem.

U.S. Army Soldiers with 70 Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 11th Airborne Division conduct an extreme cold weather foot movement during a human factors evaluation on the Cold Temperature and Arctic Protection System (CTAPS) in Ft. Greely, AK Jan. 9-14 2023. CTAPS allows war fighters to effectively operate and sustain combat operations in extreme conditions. (U.S. Army/Zachary Catron).

Editor’s note: this article by Hope Seck first appeared on Sandboxx.

The chances of Putin being tried are very low, yet, the decision also sends a message to other Russians who may have committed war crimes.
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Displayed at IDEX 2023, Thuraya’s T-TAC convertor enables tactical radios to utilise satellite communications. The system can also notify the user if it detects any compromised units on the battlefield. (Janes/Olivia Savage)
The United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based company Thuraya has unveiled a new tactical radio satellite communications (satcom) solution developed in co-operation with Cobham.