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The Czech Ministry of Defence buys Swedish RBS-70 man-portable surface-to-air missile systems.
The Rheinmetall company is going to supply the Ukrainian Armed Forces with Caracal airborne tactical vehicles.
Last July, Germany agreed to sell Ukraine 100 modern PzH 2000 howitzers. As it turned out, Ukraine never signed a contract for the purchase of the howitzers.
The US Army has ordered BAE Systems to modernise additional M109 self-propelled artillery systems.
The German government has updated the list of weapons transferred to Ukraine.
The German ambassador to Ukraine, Martin Jäger, said this. We are talking about two SAM systems. They are planned to be handed over to the Ukrainian Armed Forces by the end of the year.
This summer, the United States announced that it would buy Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft tanks from Jordan. Now details of the contract have surfaced on the Internet.
A month ago, the US media wrote that the USA had developed for the AFU a FrankenSAM surface-to-air missile system based on the Buk-M1 SAM system. This has now been officially confirmed by Ukraine.
The Ukrainian army has received French 5th generation Akeron MP anti-tank missile systems.
According to a representative of the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuriy Ignat, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have received two divisions of SAMs from their partners. In addition, Germany will soon hand over a third division to Ukraine.
The information was shared by The Wall Street Journal. U.S. officials confirmed that Israel requested SPICE bombs on 7 November. They are planned to be produced at the factories of Rafael USA, and after that the bombs will be transferred to the Israeli parent company Rafael Advanced Defence Systems. The total amount of the order is $320 million.
This summer we wrote that Israel was in talks with two European countries about the sale of decommissioned Merkava Mk.3 tanks. It seems that the sale of combat vehicles will not take place.
A photo of an APC was published by the official account of the Israel Defence Forces. The first armoured personnel carriers entered service in the spring of this year. The IDF uses Eitan APCs together with tank units in urban battles in the Gaza Strip.
A video of the system's operation was published by the command of the 61st Separate Mechanised Steppe Brigade. It is not known how many such installations Ukraine has received.
The information was shared by Oshkosh Defence, a company that manufactures the machines. The contract is worth $208m.
