2018
US approves sale of Patriot missile systems to Turkey
On December 18, 2018, the U.S. State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Turkey of eighty (80) Patrio...
Varta armored vehicles delivered to Ukrainian army
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U.S. Army awards General Dynamics contract for Mobile Protected Firepower
The U.S. Army has awarded a $335 million Section 804 Middle Tier Acquisition (MTA) Rapid Prototyping contract to General Dynamics Land Systems to d...
NATO: combat training exercise puts interoperability at forefront
Combined Resolve XI, a biannual exercise that focuses on improving the readiness and lethality of participating units, has wrapped up its first two...
BAE Systems awarded development contract for Mobile Protected Firepower
The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems a contract worth up to $376 million for the Engineering, Manufacturing, and Development (EMD) phase of the Mo...
Rheinmetall contracted to retrofit Bundeswehr Bergepanzer 3 ARV
Rheinmetall is modernizing the Bundeswehr’s fleet of Bergepanzer 3 armoured recovery vehicles, the BPz3. The move is in response to altered operati...
Russia to start flight tests of RS-28 Sarmat ICBM
Flight tests of the most advanced Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) will begin in "the nearest perspective," Strategic Missile Force...
Arquus delivers its 500th VT4 vehicle to French Army in 2018
On Monday, December 17th, 2018, the 500th VT4 vehicle has been delivered to the French Army. Thanks to this delivery, the delivery targets – 500 St...
Kazakhstan: KPE Barys 6x6 armored vehicle tested in winter conditions
Kazakhstan Paramount Engineering’s (KPE) latest armoured wheeled vehicle, the Barys 6x6, recently showed it can stand up to even the harshest Kazak...
Rheinmetall delivers Survivor R SOV to German Essen SWAT unit
Rheinmetall has just handed over a heavily protected Survivor R special operations vehicle to the police in the German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen...
Czech Defense ministry launches tender for 210 armoured infantry vehicles
The Department of Defence has officially begun a tender for the delivery of 210 armored infantry vehicles at a projected cost of more than 50 billi...
Spain announces 7.3 billion Euros defense spending plan
On 14 December 2018, Spain’s Socialist government gave the green light for a 7.3-billion-euro renewal of military equipment which it portrayed as “...
VPK Tigr-2 armored vehicle prototype scheduled for early 2019
The first prototype of Russia’s Tigr-2 next-generation armored vehicle being developed by VPK will be ready in March-April 2019 after some adjustme...
Lithuania receives first modernized PzH2000 self-propelled howitzers
On 14 December 2018, Lithuanian Army General Romualdas Giedraitis presided the reception ceremony of the first two PzH2000 (Panzerhaubitze 2000) se...
IDEAS 2018: Kia Motors and Hajvairy Group partnership to propose light armored vehicle to Pakistan army
Hajvairy Group, a private sector conglomerate, has signed partnership deal with South Korea’s Kia Motors to propose the latter’s Light Tactical Veh...
Kosovo creates army, Serbia threatens military action
Serbia has threatened military action against its neighbour Kosovo after the latter’s parliament approved the expansion of its security force into ...
India-Israel: Ashok Leyland and Elbit sign MoU for self-propelled howitzers
Ashok Leyland, the largest supplier of wheeled military vehicles to the Indian army, will provide high mobility vehicles for mounting Elbit's howit...
ShAK-12 assault rifles to be supplied to Russian law enforcement units
Russian law enforcement units will receive ShAK-12 assault rifles, Yury Amelin, the representative of the Russian TsKIB SOO small arms design burea...
Firing test of Spike anti-tank missile mounted on NAMER IFV armored
According a video released on December 12, 2018, by the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Israeli Defence Forces have performed firing tests with the la...
Rwanda: Chinese CS/SH1 122mm howitzer in service with Rwandan army
Chinese-made CS/SH1 122mm 6x6 self-propelled howitzer is now in service with the Rwandan armed forces. December 11, 2018, a picture was released on...