Weekend Briefing (12-16 December)
Welcome to Overt Defense’s Weekend Briefing where we round up the week’s most interesting and important defense news. In this weekend’s issue, we cover Kizelma’s maiden flight, Slovakia obtaining BAE System’s CV90 IFVs, Germany procuring its first batch of F-35As, Turkey’s new submarine beginning trials, the US expanding training for Ukraine and the latest news from around the world. You can check out all of this week’s articles down below.
First Reis Class Type 214 AIP Submarine of the Turkish Navy Begins Sea Trials
Trilateral AUKUS Defense Ministers Meeting Held for the First Time
Hungary Will Be First RGW-110 Operator
Morocco Will be the First African Country to Send Aid to Ukraine
Northrop Grumman And U.S. Navy Conduct Fourth AARGM-ER Test Firing
Netherlands Navy Selects Kongsberg’s Naval Strike Missile
Lockheed Martin and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems To Collaborate On The Iron Beam Laser Weapon System
UK Joins European Aster Missile Upgrade Program
China & India Clash Near Tawang, Troops Injured on Both Sides
Slovakia Orders More Than 150 CV9035 Infantry Fighting Vehicles from BAE Systems
ARRW Hypersonic Missile Passes First Operationally Configured Flight Test
Baykar’s Kizilelma Armed Drone Makes Official First Flight
Germany Officially Signs For 35 F-35A Lightning IIs
German Army to Adopt the HK416A8 as the G95A1
Croatia to Acquire Mistral 3 Air Defense Systems
Latvia Receives The First Two UH-60M Black Hawk Helicopters From The US
United States Has Trained More Than 3,000 Ukrainians on Everything from Drones to HIMARS
The First T70 Utility Helicopter Produced by TAI Was Delivered To The Turkish Armed Forces
US to Expand Training of Ukrainian Troops
Navantia Delivers Third Avante 2200 Class Corvette To The Royal Saudi Navy
Australia and Vanuatu Sign New Defense Agreement
Saab Receives Orders for Short-Range Air Defense Systems from Latvia & for NLAW from Sweden
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