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South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration has announced the development of KTSSM-II, which will be an enhanced version of KTSSM (pictured above). (ADD)
South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has announced the development of an enhanced version of the Korean Tactical Surface-to-Surface Missile (KTSSM) or KTSSM-II.
The project to develop the missile is named the Tactical Ground-Based Guided Weapon-II Project. DAPA allocated KRW1.55 trillion (USD1.17 billion) for the project.
PAC-3 missiles are being tested in operations with Aegis Combat Systems. (Lockheed Martin)
Having proved it can operate the PAC-3 (Patriot Advanced Capability-3) missile with Aegis Ashore, Lockheed Martin is now set to conduct additional flight tests at White Sands in early 2024 using the Aegis Combat System, Joe DePietro, company vice-president and general manager for Naval Combat and Missile Defense Systems, told
Janes
on 4 April during the Navy League Sea-Air-Space 2023 conference held in National Harbor, Maryland.
ProHeli CEO Valerii Copeichin shows President Museveni around the MRO facility at Nakasongola Air Base. (State House (Uganda))
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni attended a ceremony on 18 April to mark the completion of the first helicopter overhaul at a new facility in the country.
Ugandan television showed Museveni inspecting the helicopter maintenance, refurbishment, and overhaul (MRO) facility at Nakasongola Air Base and watching a Mi-24P taking off.
Seen for the first time on imagery released by the MoD on 18 April, this UK Reaper is fitted with two cheek-mounted sensor arrays (one on each side of the aircraft). A previously classified blade antenna can also be seen fitted to the underfuselage. (Crown Copyright)
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has released imagery of the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc (GA-ASI) MQ-9A Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fitted with a previously undisclosed new payload.
Armasuisse has awarded a CHF175 million contract to GDELS-Mowag for 16 more Mörser 16 120 mm self-propelled mortars with RUAG’s turntable-mounted Cobra system. (RUAG)
Armasuisse, the Swiss Federal Office for Defence Procurement, has awarded a contract to General Dynamics European Land Systems-Mowag (GDELS-Mowag) for 16 more Mörser 16 120 mm mortar systems, the company and the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS) announced on 12 April. RUAG has been subcontracted to deliver its Cobra mortar for installation in the GDELS Piranha 8×8 carrier platform.
One US Navy shipbuilding scenario would move Ford-class aircraft carrier procurement to four-year centres. (Michael Fabey)
The US Congress will have to markedly increase unconstrained shipbuilding funding if it wants the US Navy (USN) to reach the stated 355-ship force by the middle of this century, according to the USN Report to Congress on the Annual Long-Range Plan for Construction of Naval Vessels for Fiscal Year 2024, released on 18 April.
As noted by a US Congressional Research Service (CRS) report released on 13 April, the 355-ship goal was made US policy in December 2017.
The Philippines and US troops fired HIMARS for the first time in live-fire Exercise ‘Salaknib’. The picture shows a HIMARS system from Exercise ‘Eager Lion’ in Jordan. (US Army/Sgt 1st Class Steven Queen)
The troops of the US and Philippine armies conducted live firing of Autonomous Truck Mounted howitzer System (ATMOS) 155 mm/52 calibre self-propelled artillery units and M-142 High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) in ‘Balikatan’ and ‘Salaknib’ exercises.