Monthly Archive: Agosto 2022

Taiwan announced plans for a record increase to its defense budget on Thursday after huge military drills by China earlier this month sent tensions between the two to their highest in decades.

Taipei has proposed a defense budget of NT$415.1 billion ($13.7 billion) for next year, up 13% year-on-y…

Ukraine will receive the state-of-the-art IRIS-T air defense system in the near future. The German Minister of Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock reported about this.

“Specifically, in the field of air defense, where support is primarily requested, we made sure that the highly modern Iris-T system…

The YU-20 aerial tanker, the force amplifier that recently entered service with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force and made frequent appearances in exercises around the island of Taiwan earlier this month, will be a star of the show at the upcoming PLA Air Force open day event with…

STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. Africa Command is investigating what caused an Air Force surveillance drone to crash earlier this week near Benghazi, Libya, the military said Wednesday.

The drone was surveilling the area Monday ahead of planned diplomatic meetings, AFRICOM said. It did not specify wh…

AM General LLC, South Bend, Indiana, was awarded a $732,741,016 modification (P00042) to contract W56HZV-17-D-0071 for production of High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle Expanded Capacity Vehicle variants.

Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work locations and funding w…

The governments of Germany and Slovakia agreed to a deal on August 23 under which Slovakia will send its Cold War-era armored fighting vehicles to Ukraine, with Berlin providing the Slovak armed forces with Leopard 2 main battle tanks in return.

The swap illustrates an ongoing effort by European …