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The Austrian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has exercised a contract option to procure 18 additional AW169M light utility helicopters (LUH) from Italian defence company Leonardo.
The contract was signed between Leonardo and the Directorate for Air Armaments and Airworthiness, assigned under the Italian Secretariat General of Defence/National Armaments Directorate.
Signed on 19 January, the new contract has an estimated value of €304m.

The latest deal has been finalised after a recently signed government-to-government (G2G) agreement between Italy and Austria.

This is the most important victory for the Somalian military since it renewed its offensive against al-Shabaab last year.
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The Air Force’s 6th-generation stealth fighter is already airborne
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On the same day, Big Navy fired two distinguished commanders tied to troubled warships in Virginia and Florida.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp reaffirmed his commitment to supporting the values of the West via his company’s algorithmic intelligence software on Wednesday, telling any current or…

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Dubbed Point Blank, Israel Aerospace Industries will develop and deliver the deadly drones to the U.S. military for evaluation.

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Officials overseeing development of the U.S.

The UK’s cross-party House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee (IRDC) released a trenchant rebuke of the Government’s strategic policy, as set forth in the 2021 Integrated Review and the Defence Command Paper, finding it had a ‘lack of clarity or purpose’ and held little detail for how the UK could achieve its defence ambitions.

Israeli company Xtend will supply its robotic operating system, which enables unmanned swarming, to the Israel Ministry of Defense (MoD).
The USD20 million multi-year contract is part of a joint project with the Israeli MoD called ‘Urban Capsule’, which seeks to accelerate and scale Xtend’s Operating System (XOS), Ido Bar-On, vice-president of business development and sales for Xtend, told Janes on 16 January.

Aero Vodochody has delivered back to the Czech Air Force the last of 16 overhauled and upgraded L-159 light fighters. (Aero Vodochody)
The Czech Republic Air Force (Vzdušné Sily Armády Ceské Republiky: VzS AČR) has received back into the service the last of 16 L-159A ALCA light attack and air-defence aircraft to be overhauled and upgraded by Aero Vodochody.