Defence`s Feeds

In between visits to the International Military-Technical Forum "Army 2021", which took place in the Moscow region from 22 to

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's unprecedented meeting with the UAE national security advisor Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Ankara on 18 August can

On 23 August, a New York court suggesed to pause the legal action brought by Privatbank against its two former owners, Igor

Americas

EaglePicher Technologies won a $12 million deal for the BBU-63/B Impulse Cartridge for the B-2 bomber. The B-2 is a low-observable, strategic, long-range, heavy bomber capable of penetrating sophisticated and dense air-defense shields. Work will take place in Missouri. Estimated completion date is September 30, 2026.

The US Navy has sent its third and final ship Zumwalt Class destroyer off to sea trials, its maker, General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, announced. The USS Lyndon B. Johnson, christened in April 2019, left the Bath Iron Works shipyard on Friday and is expected to be commissioned by the Navy in 2023, after its combat systems are fully installed and activated.

Middle East & Africa

Iraq’s Defense Minister Jumma Inad Sadoon has indicated that his country intends to buy 12 T129 attack helicopters from Turkey. Sadoon also revealed that a consensus has been reached with Turkey with regards to the purchase of the Bayraktar TB2 unmanned air vehicle (UAV). He held discussions with Turkish defense officials during the visit to International Defense Industry Fair (IDEF 2021) last week.

Europe

Italian shipyard Fincantieri is holding early talks with Italy’s Leonardo to acquire its naval gun manufacturing operation, formerly known as Oto Melara. The deal, if concluded, would see Fincantieri take charge of the production of the Leonardo-built 76mm and 127mm naval cannons which it mounts on its warships and which have also been widely exported around the world.

BAE Systems recently unveiled its ultra-small MicroGRAM-M GPS receiver compatible with M-Code signals that are resistant to jamming and spoofing. About the size of a postage stamp, MicroGRAM-M is the world’s smallest, lightest, and most power-efficient M-Code embedded GPS receiver – delivering assured positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) for size-constrained and other micro-applications.

Asia-Pacific

Future joint military exercises led by the US Space Force could include South Korea’s air force in order to help reinforce the latter’s space defense capabilities. Gen. Park In-ho of the Republic of Korea Air Force (RoKAF), and U.S. Space Force Gen. John W. Raymond reached an agreement on Aug. 27 when Park visited Peterson Air Force Base. A joint consultative body on space policy will be set up and both sides will also share information on space surveillance.

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The Multinational Multirole Tanker Transport Unit (MMU) received its fifth Airbus A330 MultiRole Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft on 31 August.

The celebrations of Ukraine's 30 years of independence on 24 August will be embodied by the launch in December of the remote sensing satellite Sich 2-1, renamed Sich 2-30 for the occasion. This satellite, developed by Yuzhnoye State Design Office

Cognyte, a spin-off from Israel's Verint group which specialises in cyber intelligence, will make a presentation on the deanonymization of cryptocurrency

Having only just managed to drag itself away from the troubles in Syria on 12 August (IO, 16/03/21), South African telecommunications

Months after being caught up in a police investigation that revealed his visits to a massage parlour, Frederic Choi Chin-pang,

The divorce between former Yukos executive Alexey Golubovich, who now heads Arbat Capital, and Olga Mirimskaya, head of Russian agri-food

Towards the end of July, at the Thales headquarters in the Paris suburb of Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine), a sober leaving party

The celebrations of Ukraine's 30 years of independence on 24 August will be embodied by the launch in December of the remote sensing satellite Sich 2-1, renamed Sich 2-30 for the occasion. This satellite, developed by Yuzhnoye State Design Office

Cognyte, a spin-off from Israel's Verint group which specialises in cyber intelligence, will make a presentation on the deanonymization of cryptocurrency

Having only just managed to drag itself away from the troubles in Syria on 12 August (IO, 16/03/21), South African telecommunications

Months after being caught up in a police investigation that revealed his visits to a massage parlour, Frederic Choi Chin-pang,

The divorce between former Yukos executive Alexey Golubovich, who now heads Arbat Capital, and Olga Mirimskaya, head of Russian agri-food

Towards the end of July, at the Thales headquarters in the Paris suburb of Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine), a sober leaving party