The Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support has announced that it has commissioned Projekt System & Management, a joint venture between Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and Rheinmetall, to upgrade 143 PUMA infantry fighting vehicles.
The order volume for the upgrade is €770m.
Keeping the PUMA’s up to date
According to GlobalData’s German Armed Forces Equipment Inventory 2022, the German Armed Forces had 345 Puma Armored Personnel Carriers from procurement in 2015.
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The Swedish Defence Procurement Agency (FMV) has agreed a deal to acquire 20 6×6 armoured vehicles from Finnish defence provider Patria, with the first deliveries scheduled to take place within 2023.
The Patria 6×6, which will be known as “Pansarterrängbil 300” in Swedish service, has been chosen as the platform for the common armoured vehicle system (CAVS), a collaborative effort between several European countries including Finland, Latvia, Sweden, and Germany.
FILE – Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin attends the funeral of, a fighter of the Wagner group on Dec. 24, 2022. (AP Photo, File).
Yevgeny Prigohzin, the leader of the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group, unexpectedly called for an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Prigozhin said the time was right to stop trying to seize more Ukrainian territory, consolidate control of what it has in Ukraine’s east, and end the fighting.
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Key pointsEvent: On 15 April 2023, fighting erupted in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)Significance: Since January 2023, Janes Military Coup Indicator has ranked Sudan among the top three states most likely to experience a military coup.
At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed and launched a space cannon it could use to go to war in orbit.
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In a bid to bolster air defence in the Baltic region, Nato has brought online the Norwegian advanced surface-to-air missile system (NASAMS) after deploying more than 100 Spanish soldiers to the Lielvarde Air Base in Latvia. Latvia’s air defence capabilities will now be improved with the addition of medium-range air defence capabilities from the Spanish contingent.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Government agencies and commercial companies are poised to launch an unprecedented number of space vehicles in the coming years, and leaders are increasingly leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to assist operators in managing the assets and vast amounts of data created and collected by them.
During his keynote address at the Space Symposium on Tuesday, National Reconnaissance Office Director Chris Scolese emphasized that the NRO is integrating AI and ML widely across the organization.
Mobile Harpoon Missiles
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In preparation for a possible future invasion by Beijing, Taiwan is buying up to 400 land-launched Harpoon missiles, according to Rupert Hammond-Chambers, the president of the U.S.-Taiwan Business Council.
Taiwan has purchased Harpoon missiles before for use on warships, but the new deal marks the first time the island has purchased mobile Harpoons that can be launched from land.
While the Pentagon announced the contract on April 7, which is with Boeing for $1.
Somalia has been in trouble for a long time, long before the events depicted in the 2001 film “Black Hawk Down.” It descended into chaos and civil war in the early 1980s and by the mid-90s, it had become a failed state. Things were looking up in the mid-2000s, until Islamic terrorist groups began fighting the transitional government there. The deadliest and most enduring has been the al-Shabaab terrorist organization.