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A Russian frigate, armed with hypersonic missiles, will exercise off the African coast with the Chinese and South African navies, according to a report by a Russian news…
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KYIV (Reuters) -Several senior Ukrainian officials resigned on Tuesday in the biggest leadership shakeup of the war with Russia so far, in what an aide to President Volodymyr…
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The Republican-led House in the US Congress could raise questions into the value of continued support to Ukraine and further calls for European states to increase their own contributions to Kyiv in its fight against Russia, according to GlobalData analysis.
The topic emerged as a leading issue in the US mid-term elections in Q4 last year, with the US having contributed more than $24bn in military support to Ukraine, although the breakdown of direct assistance versus recapitalisation of US munitions stocks and armoured vehicle fleets is unknown.
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Russia’s state TASS has announced that the Russian navy will be participating along with China and South Africa in joint naval exercises beginning in February off the coast of South Africa.
Three weeks prior to the announcement of the joint exercises, the Russian frigate ‘Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov’ left port armed with Russia’s newly developed Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles for deployment in the Atlantic.
Northrop Grumman has selected CAES to provide M-Code global positioning system (GPS) antennas for the US Army’s Precision Guidance Kits (PGK).
The estimated value of the contract is approximately $24m.
As part of this award, CAES will deliver a total of 80,000 M-Code antennas to Northrop Grumman over a period of three years to support the production of PGK for the US Army.
A Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion maritime patrol aircraft is pictured at RNZAF Base Auckland in Whenuapai on 24 January. The service’s fleet of three P-3K2s is being retired at the end of January following 57 years of service. (Tim Fish)
The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) will retire the last three of its P-3K2 Orion maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) at the end of January 2023 after 57 years of service.
At RNZAF Base Auckland in Whenuapai on 24 January, No 5 Squadron, which operates and maintains the aircraft, completed a final flypast of the three aircraft in formation.
CAVS will contribute to participating countries seeking to increase the mobility of their armies, including in Arctic conditions. (Patria)
The Finnish-led 6×6 Common Armoured Vehicle System (CAVS) programme continues to progress, Janes learnt at Defence IQ’s International Armoured Vehicles (IAV) 2023 conference being held in London from 23 to 26 January.
Janes
assesses that the design of the new VTOL UAV by KAI and Northrop Grumman could be influenced by the US company’s MQ-8C UAV (pictured).
(US Navy)
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) signed an agreement with Northrop Grumman to develop vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can be operated from warships and coastguard vessels.
Janes understands that the Republic of Korea (RoK) Navy plans to acquire around 20 of these VTOL UAVs.
Lockheed Martin has received first light from the Directed Energy Interceptor for Manoeuvre Short-Range Air Defence (M-SHORAD) System (DEIMOS) during a recently conducted laser lab demonstration.
The demonstration was conducted to assess and validate the optical performance of the laser in line with required design parameters of the system.
According to the company, first light is used to measure the weapon system’s expected beam quality to test end-to-end performance of Lockheed Martin’s low-cost Spectral Beam Combination (SBC) architecture.