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Dutch Coalition MPs Call for EU Weapons Embargo Against Turkey

Dutch Coalition MPs Call for EU Weapons Embargo Against Turkey

MPs from three of the four coalition parties want foreign minister Stef Blok to put pressure on Europe to establish a weapons embargo against Nato coalition partner Turkey, broadcaster NOS said. MPs say the embargo would be a punishment for Turkey’s involvement in the recent violence between Azerbai…
Turkey’s Erdogan Details Development of Defense Industry

Turkey’s Erdogan Details Development of Defense Industry

ISTANBUL — Turkey has successfully completed satellite launch tests and has reached space four times using fully indigenous engineering capabilities, the nation’s president announced Thursday.

“We have already said we are in the space league,” Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said at the inauguration cerem…

GA Wins $82M for UK-Specific MQ-9B Modifications

GA Wins $82M for UK-Specific MQ-9B Modifications

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded an $81,866,402 cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price modification (P00014) to contract FA8620-18-C-2009 for the U.K. MQ-9B Protector program.

This modification provides for the design, development, integration and…

New US Army Program Ground-Fires Navy Tomahawk, SM-6 Missiles

New US Army Program Ground-Fires Navy Tomahawk, SM-6 Missiles

It can loiter over targets while sending back video through a two-way data link. It can destroy targets from ranges out to 900 miles. And now, it can adjust course in flight to destroy moving targets … the Tomahawk missile, often the first weapon to strike in combat, will now be fired as a land weap…
Netherlands Approves €660M Upgrade for CV90 Armored Vehicles

Netherlands Approves €660M Upgrade for CV90 Armored Vehicles

The modernization of 122 Dutch Army CV9035NL Infantry Fighting Vehicles has come a step closer. State Secretary Barbara Visser today informed the House about the progress. The aim of the so-called midlife update (MLU) is to ensure operationally relevant, maintainable and future-proof vehicles.

Th…

Pakistani Navy Commissions Second Romanian-Built Dutch Corvette

Pakistani Navy Commissions Second Romanian-Built Dutch Corvette

ISLAMABAD — Commissioning Ceremony of Pakistan Navy Ship TABUK was held at Black Sea port of Constanta, Romania. Contract for two Corvettes for Pakistan Navy was signed between Ministry of Defence Production Pakistan and M/s DAMEN, Romania. First ship of class, PNS YARMOOK was commissioned earlier…

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