Joint UK-Ukrainian exercises have started this week bolstering western assistance to the eastern European state in its continuing battle with separatists.
UK defence secretary, Michael Fallon, launched the exercises that include 75 British military instructors and involve about 1,000 Ukrainian troops.
The numbers of instructors and troops completing training are expected to increase over the next few months.
Military exercises are taking place at the Ukrainian army training centre in the Teterevka area of the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine and at five other training centers in other parts of the country.
Fallon has met with Ukraine’s prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, to
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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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