November 2019 Global Defence & Security Industry - Military News |
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The Office of the Hungarian Government Commissioner Responsible for Defence, Defence Industries and the Coordination of Defence Modernisation announces that HDT Védelmi Ipari Kft. Company has acquired 100% of the Austrian Hirtenberger Defence Group owned by the Hirtenberger Holding GmbH, Hirtenberg, Austria.
Military personnel from 12 NATO and partner nations are testing their Force Protection Electronic Counter Measure systems at the Woomera Prohibited Area in South Australia.
The delivery of the second batch of the Russian S-400 missile defense systems to Turkey may be delayed beyond 2020, the planned timeline, due to talks on technology sharing and joint production, the head of the country’s Defense Industry Directorate said on Nov. 4, reported by Hürriyet Daily News.
The Indian Army, which began inducting the indigenously upgraded 155mm Dhanush howitzers, will have the first regiment in place by March 2020 and will get all 114 guns by 2022, Army sources said. Dhanush is the indigenously upgraded variant of the Swedish Bofors gun imported in the 1980s. Dinakar Peri reports on The Hindu.
On 31 October, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace signed a contract with the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency worth 583 MNOK (64.18 Mn USD) to deliver Mobile Ground-Based Air Defense to the Norwegian Army. The Army Mobile Ground Based Air Defence System was first presented by the Defence Minister in February 2017 as a direct acquisition process with Kongsberg.
On October 29, 2019, BAE Systems has received a $120 million contract from the U.S. Marine Corps for additional Amphibious Combat Vehicles under the third order for Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) of Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) program initiated by the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command.
According to news released by the Taiwanese newspaper website on October 28, 2019, the Ministry of National Defense of Taiwan plans to buy 106 M1A2T main battle tanks from the United States and moved to sign a Letter of Offer and Acceptance.
Finnish Minister of Defence Antti Kaikkonen has authorized, on 28 October 2019, the Defence Forces Logistics Command of Finland to procure supplementary life-cycle upgrades from the Finnish Patria Land Oy for XA-180 armored personnel carriers (Pasi) as of the beginning of 2020.
