Yearly Archive: 2022

Pentagon Announces Additional $750M Weapons Package for Ukraine

Pentagon Announces Additional $750M Weapons Package for Ukraine

Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announces the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $775 million to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs. This authorization is the Biden Administration’s nineteenth drawdown of equipment from DoD inventor…
Five Firms Win $975M Each to Develop Next-Gen Adaptive Propulsion

Five Firms Win $975M Each to Develop Next-Gen Adaptive Propulsion

–General Electric Co., GE Edison Works, Cincinnati, Ohio, has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a program ceiling of $975,000,000 for technology maturation and risk reduction activities through design, analysis, rig testing, prototype engine testing, and weapon s…
China’s Expanding Submarine Fleet Worries Taiwan Experts

China’s Expanding Submarine Fleet Worries Taiwan Experts

WASHINGTON — Even to laypeople, the odds of a China-versus-Taiwan underwater face-off seem unbalanced.

–China’s submarine force: 66 boats in 2020 with 76 expected by 2030.
–Attributes: Nearly silent next-gen tech.

–Taiwan’s submarine force: Four boats.
–Attributes: Two of the world’s o…

Chile Takes Delivery of Two Ex-RAF AWACS Aircraft

Chile Takes Delivery of Two Ex-RAF AWACS Aircraft

SANTIAGO, Chile — In a ceremony held at the Pudahuel Air Base of the II Air Brigade of Santiago, the head of National Defense valued the arrival of the Boeing E-3D Sentry MK 1 aircraft and highlighted, among their capabilities, their use in peace operations, searching for people and during natural…
New German Arms Shipment to Ukraine Includes Vulcano PGMs

New German Arms Shipment to Ukraine Includes Vulcano PGMs

Germany provides support for Ukraine by supplying equipment and weapons, these come from supplies of the Federal Arms Forces and from deliveries from industry financed from the Federal Government’s funds for security capacity building. An overview.

The Federal Government supports the Ukrainian …

Cyprus Orders Israel’s Iron Dome Air-Defense System

Cyprus Orders Israel’s Iron Dome Air-Defense System

The Cyprus National Guard was eager to add it to its arsenal, and the Department of Defense accommodated the wishes of National Guard personnel. As Kathimerini reported at the beginning of the summer, the Ministry of Defense implemented the government’s decision to purchase the Israeli Iron Dome ant…
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