Azerbaijan is building up its air defence capabilities with a new surface-to-air missile system and has plans to buy further equipment.
The MoD has revealed it has bought the Israel Aerospace Industries’ Barak 8 SAM system and has also announced an intention to buy the Iron Dome missile defence system in an effort to further strengthen capability in this sector.
Last year Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliev led a major inspection of the combat readiness of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. The firings of the Barak 8 SAM system was announced in December and was the first public acknowledgment that the
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The new Bushmasters will be used by the Australian Army’s second long-range fires regiment, to be based at the Edinburgh Defence Precinct in South Australia as part of the 10th Fires Brigade.
The British Army’s Land Mobility Programme (LMP) has struggled to make it to competition but there are hopes progress will be made this year.
The aid stations are designed to be mounted onto trucks, such as the Rheinnetall HX family of vehicles, and will be in ballistic protected and unprotected versions.
The contract is for transmissions for the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center (JSMC) in Lima, Ohio for new tanks and overhaul and repair activities at Anniston Army Depot.
Jerusalem’s air defence capabilities procurement efforts will receive up to $190 million.
In the medium-term Lithuania has committed US$1.3 billion which includes Javelin ant-tank missiles, Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTVs), Black Hawk helicopters, missile systems and missiles.
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