Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski described the delivery of U.S. ATACMS missiles to Ukraine as a “reaction to the Russian escalation” in Ukraine, to which Germany must also respond.
The Main Ground Combat System project is conceived around not just a new main battle tank design, but also a series of systems and vehicles built off that platform that will connect battle tanks in a data network with support weapons such as drones and other unmanned systems.
The €100 billion ($107 billion) special fund created to update
Germany’s military after Russia invaded its neighbour in 2022 will be used up in a few years, Lindner said.
The armed forces will then have to be upgraded from regular funds. But this won’t be possible with a limited budget and
ever-growing debt, the finance minister went on.
Saab will begin production of the Carl-Gustaf M4 from its site in Jhajjar in Haryana next year, with the first-ever 100 percent ownership of a venture by a foreign manufacturer in India. The production is intended to largely service the Indian Army-requirements with additional potential for exports.
Germany stopped selling weapons to Saudi Arabia over the war on Yemen’s Houthi militia. It has now started selling weapons to Saudi Arabia again, to intercept missile attacks from the same Houthis aimed at Israel.
The Republic of Korea has selected the Brazilian Embraer C-390 for its transport aircraft requirement for an order estimated to be approximately worth USD 540 million. The C-390 was competing against the Lockheed Martin C-130J and the Airbus A400M, in a contest similar to the ongoing airlifter requirement of the Indian Air Force.
A Qatar Emiri Air Force F-15QA (Qatar Advanced) will be present and displaying at the airshow. The F-15QA model has been key for the most recent evolution of the aircraft into the latest F-15EX fighter.
Israeli soldiers in the West Bank threatened and detained a team of journalists from the German public broadcaster ARD, the network reported on Sunday evening. The soldiers behaved extremely aggressively towards the journalists and weapons were aimed into the team’s vehicle on several occasions, ARD said. Bavarian Rundfunk, the ARD member station that operates the network’s Tel Aviv studio, described the incident as an attack on press freedom.
Flights at Hamburg’s airport returned to normal schedule on Monday morning, hours after police managed to end a lengthy hostage stand-off with an armed man without bloodshed. The airport said security measures will be overhauled and physical barriers strengthened after the armed man managed to drive his car onto the runway apron on Sunday, forcing a halt to air traffic.
Israel has two objectives: dismantling of the Hamas regime in Gaza and safe recovery of the hostages abducted on Saturday. Israel will have to prioritise between the two because it is doubtful if both objectives can be pursued and achieved at the same time.
Russia’s Rubin Design Bureau has developed the multi-mission, unmanned submersible for surveys, mapping, search and salvage operations, monitoring and sentry duties, with potentially indefinite endurance capabilities and expandable or customisable payloads depending on mission requirements.
According to Airbus, ‘The first 16 C295s of the 56 aircraft on order will be assembled at the San Pablo Sur site in Seville, Spain, with the second aircraft due to be delivered in May 2024 and the next 14 rolled out at a rate of one per month until August 2025.’
The U.S. Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit and the Indian defence ministry’s iDEX will throw open two challenges ‘focused on undersea communication and maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance’ to start-ups later this month.
Embraer executives are in India to scout for industrial partners and brief the IAF on the aircraft, which might have a compelling case over the competing Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules and Airbus A400M airlifters.
Indonesia has also recently placed orders for a total of 42 Dassault Rafale fighters. But the F-15EX is very different — being in a much higher weight class, to begin with. The export version of the aircraft delivered to Indonesia will be designated the F-15IDN.
