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The Indian Air Force’s 9 Base Repair Depot unit has developed a new counter-unmanned aircraft system with soft-kill capabilities (pictured). (Janes/Oishee Majumdar)

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has developed a low-cost counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) with soft-kill capabilities to improve security of vital areas/vital points (VAs/VPs) against hostile unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Project Officer Wing Commander Ranjith Unnikrishnan, told
Janes
at the Aero India 2023 show being held in Bangalore from 13 to 17 February.

The Polish Government’s intention to acquire 116 M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks (MBTs) looks to be filtering down into the US industrial base.
The Polish intention to strengthen its MBT fleet follows a 16 February contract award to US-based defence firm, General Dynamics, to conduct turret armour swaps with Polish foreign military sale funding.
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced Poland’s intention to procure these MBTs in December 2022. The agency stated that the deal would cost the Polish government an estimated $3.75bn.

The air cycle machine for cooling ECM pods. (TurboTech Defence & Aerospace )
Indian firm TurboTech Defence & Aerospace Pvt Ltd has displayed an air cycle machine (ACM) for cooling electronic countermeasure (ECM) pods and an air compressor for Tatra military trucks at the Aero India 2023 show in Bangalore, held from 13 to 17 February.
The ACM provides 3.5 kW of cooling and can reduce the temperature inside the pod by -30° during operation.

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