The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) has notified Congress of a potential sale of high mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS) to the Netherlands.
The estimated cost of the foreign military sale is $670m.
The agency has delivered the required certification for the sale, which has also been approved by the US State Department.
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As NATO warns that its stockpiles of artillery munitions are running low, the U.S. military is attempting to train Ukrainian forces to change how they fight in order to conserve shells. Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, outlined the effort after a meeting in Brussels with the Ukraine Defense Contact group.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The Navy is looking to build what it calls “fleet non-kinetic effects teams” that will augment afloat forces with critical information warfare capabilities.
The term non-kinetic effects, in U.S. military parlance, generally refers to digital capabilities or tools that don’t fall under the traditional weapons portfolio of physical objects. Today, much of the Navy’s info-warfare capabilities — which include cyber, signals intelligence, information operations and spectrum operations — are employed ashore.
The Air Force just announced that it has successfully flown 12 test missions in a modified F-16 using an AI fighter pilot.
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The Indian Air Force’s 9 Base Repair Depot unit has developed a new counter-unmanned aircraft system with soft-kill capabilities (pictured). (Janes/Oishee Majumdar)
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has developed a low-cost counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) with soft-kill capabilities to improve security of vital areas/vital points (VAs/VPs) against hostile unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Project Officer Wing Commander Ranjith Unnikrishnan, told
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at the Aero India 2023 show being held in Bangalore from 13 to 17 February.
The Polish Government’s intention to acquire 116 M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks (MBTs) looks to be filtering down into the US industrial base.
The Polish intention to strengthen its MBT fleet follows a 16 February contract award to US-based defence firm, General Dynamics, to conduct turret armour swaps with Polish foreign military sale funding.
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced Poland’s intention to procure these MBTs in December 2022. The agency stated that the deal would cost the Polish government an estimated $3.75bn.
The air cycle machine for cooling ECM pods. (TurboTech Defence & Aerospace )
Indian firm TurboTech Defence & Aerospace Pvt Ltd has displayed an air cycle machine (ACM) for cooling electronic countermeasure (ECM) pods and an air compressor for Tatra military trucks at the Aero India 2023 show in Bangalore, held from 13 to 17 February.
The ACM provides 3.5 kW of cooling and can reduce the temperature inside the pod by -30° during operation.
A year ago, as Russia’s aggressive war in Ukraine was proving not to be the quick and easy victory Vladimir Putin had expected, some observers speculated that the bungled decision to invade his neighbor could be Putin’s undoing. The idea of a Russian state without Putin raised alluring prospects of reform. In this week’s Horns of […]
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