On November 30, Egypt’s state owned Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI) signed a cooperation agreement with Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) for manufacturing of training aircraft in Egypt. The cooperation is… Continue reading "Egypt’s AOI Signs Cooperation Agreement With Korea’s KAI For Local Production Of Aircraft"
The U.S. State Department approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) of the Fixed Site-Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aircraft System Integrated Defeat System (FS-LIDS) to Qatar on November 29. The… Continue reading "U.S. Approves $1 Billion FMS Of FS-LIDS Counter-UAS Systems To Qatar"
The Department of State has approved a potential sale of AIM 9X Block II missiles and AGM-154 Joint Stand-Off Weapons (JSOW) to the Government of Finland. Although the contents of… Continue reading "United States Approves Possible Sale of AIM-9X and AGM-154 JSOW Worth $323 Million to Finland"
The eleventh C-130 military transport aircraft, whose avionics modernization was completed as part of the Turkish Defense Industry Agency’s (SSB) ERCIYES Project, was delivered to the Turkish Air Force Command.… Continue reading "Turkish Air Force Receives its Eleventh Modernized C-130 Hercules Military Transport Aircraft"
Ukraine is to receive 14 Milrem Robotics THeMIS unmanned ground vehicles. The initiative is to be funded by the the German Ministry of Defence and will include seven casualty evacuation… Continue reading "Ukraine To Receive Milrem THeMIS UGVs"
Despite Ukraine’s requests the United States have been reluctant to provide the MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System or ATACMS. The ATACMS has a range of 190 miles or 300km and… Continue reading "Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb with 150km Range Proposed for Ukraine"
Another significant milestone has been reached in Turkey’s first domestic warplane project. On Wednesday, November 23, the TF-X (MMU in Turkish), Turkey’s future fighter jet, was moved to the Final… Continue reading "Turkey’s Domestic 5th Generation TF-X Fighter Jet Is On The Final Assembly Line"
The Indian Air Force (IAF) held large-scale exercises with the French Air and Space Force (FASF) and the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) in October – November. The HAL… Continue reading "IAF Debuts HAL Tejas In Exercises With France, Singapore"
The UK has announced the procurement of Kongsberg’s Naval Strike Missile as their interim replacement for the Harpoon anti-ship missiles which previously armed Royal Navy surface combatants. The news was… Continue reading "UK To Procure Naval Strike Missiles for Royal Navy"
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 some of the DefExpo 2022 premieres,… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (14-18 November)"