January 2023 News Global Defence & Security Industry - Military |
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Iran unveils for the first time its new AD-08 also nicknamed Majid, a short-range mobile air defense missile system mounted on an Iveco Daily 4x4 light truck during a military exercise. The AD-08 was unveiled in January 2022 but mounted on the ARAS-2, an Iranian-made 4x4 tactical vehicle that was developed based on the F-4. 5 Toyota Land Cruiser chassis.
According to information published by the "InfoDefensa" website on January 1, 2022, Colombia selected the French-made CAESAR 155mm wheeled self-propelled howitzer as the future artillery system for the Colombian army.
On January 1, 2023, the "NK Pro" North Korea Professional Research Platform announced that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK North Korea) seeks to make the KN-25, a mobile artillery system, as the backbone of the tactical nuclear forces of the North Korean armed forces. The KN-25 is categorized by the U.S. as an SRBM (Short-Range Ballistic Missile) able to carry a nuclear warhead.
American company ManTech has won a five-year $862 million task order to provide full lifecycle maintenance support to mission-critical systems and vehicles for the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office, Combat Support and Service Support (PEO CS & CSS) and its customers under the Allied Logistics Engineering Capabilities and Sustainment (ALECS) program.
According to a Tweet published on December 31, 2022, by "Nicholas Drummond", a Defense industry consultant, the German company Kraus-Maffei Wegmann has started the production of the RCH 155 155mm wheeled self-propelled howitzers for Ukraine.
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