Category: Notizie Estero

SEOUL — South Korea on Tuesday signed a contract to sell K9 self-propelled howitzers to Egypt in a deal worth over 2 trillion won (US$1.65 billion), Seoul’s arms procurement agency said, marking the artillery system’s first entry into the African market.

Hanwha Defense, the South Korean manufac…

LONDON — NATO member states are sending thousands of troops, warplanes and ships to allies in eastern Europe as tensions with Russia escalate over Moscow’s deployment of more than 100,000 troops to its border with Ukraine. The West fears an imminent Russian invasion, which the Kremlin denies.

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— Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a Lockheed Martin Co., Stratford, Connecticut, is awarded a $684,950,963 fixed-price incentive (firm target) modification (P00006) to a previously awarded contract (N0001920C0047).

This modification exercises options for the production and delivery of nine low-rate in…

A third company will offer a tanker to the US Air Force when the KC-Y Request for Proposal is issued this year. Kansas Modification Center (KMC) and the National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) will propose converting used Boeing 777-300ERs to tankers. Jim Gibbs, president and CEO of KMC, alr…

The United States and Russia faced off Monday at the United Nations Security Council over Washington’s accusations that Moscow is planning a large-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, which the Kremlin has denied.

“The situation we’re facing in Europe is urgent and dangerous, and the stakes for…

The Slovak Ministry of Defense will procure 152 combat vehicles to modernize its army. FMV has submitted an offer together with BAE Systems Hägglunds which includes the Swedish-made combat vehicle CV90 and Swedish support for training, tactical use and future development.

“We have developed an of…