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The Turkish Armed Forces have received a delivery of the first six new generation Firtina (Storm) 155mm self-propelled howitzers.
A ceremony was held to mark the delivery milestone, which was attended by the President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and other officials.
President Erdogan said: “We will increase this number to 140 in total, with new deliveries in the coming period.

“The new generation Storm howitzers have many advantages compared to the models currently in the inventory.

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Soldiers from the British Army have recently carried out a series of training drills with new AH-64E helicopters, preparing it for future frontline service deployments.
The drills were undertaken by the UK’s 3 Regiment Army Air Corps, as part of the two-week-long Exercise Talon Guardian.
The activity allowed the British Army’s soldiers, who are responsible for operating the new Apache aircraft, to hone and adapt new skillsets and tactics for countering emerging battlefield adversaries.

It also maximised the capabilities of the aircraft.

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Northrop Grumman has begun the full production of propulsion system used with the US Army’s guided multiple launch rocket system (GMLRS).
This signifies the fulfilment of the Army’s full contract production quantity.
The latest milestone comes after the company successfully handed over the 15,000th rocket motor and 20,000th warhead to Lockheed Martin to complete their final integration onto the GMLRS weapon system.

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is reverberating more than 1,000 miles away in Syria. Squeezed by its strategic blunder, Moscow’s shrinking strategic bandwidth and its diminished capacities in Syria have disrupted the conflict’s complex power dynamics, potentially imperiling the relative calm that has prevailed since March 2020 and undermining U.S. interests. Amidst feverish jockeying among regional […]
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