The US Army is looking to field an interim cruise missile defence capability to provide near-term protection until the longer-term Indirect Fire Protection Capability (IFPC) system becomes fully operational, according to a service official.
The army has evaluated ‘a number’ of existing systems for the interim capability, including Israel’s combat-tested, anti-rocket Iron Dome, and has ‘winnowed that down to a very small set of candidates,’ army acquisition chief Bruce Jette said on 10 January.
‘We want to have some things in place that provide us some immediate protection…and so what that’s going to do is we’re going to look
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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.
The third Patriot order from the country comprised radars, control stations and missiles.
Exercise Steadfast Dart 25 (STDT25) kicks off a slate of six land and sea exercises NATO is conducting in the first half of this year.
The company's ReDrone Counter-UAS solution will sit at the heart of the contract.
Ukraine is operating ex-German Army Gepard air-defence guns donated more than two years ago.
The KF41 is entering service in Hungary and a version of it is in the running to meet the US XM30 requirement. An order from Italy could be for as many as 1,050 vehicles.
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