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The US Department of Defense has awarded Pratt & Whitney nearly $1bn in addition to a previously awarded contract to produce F135 powerplants for the fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighter jet.
Last week, Sweden showed pictures of the Ukrainian military training on the CV90s. And now, the infantry fighting vehicles have arrived in Ukraine.
The House Armed Services Committee's tactical air and land forces panel is demanding more than half a billion dollars to develop the AETP programme, which will result in an adaptive engine.
The information was shared by Ynet, citing its sources in the ministry. The contract is worth tens of millions of dollars. The contract will include more than 200 Merkava tanks in Mk2 and Mk3 variants.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces will receive an additional batch of German Leopard 2 main battle tanks. This was reported by the Handelsbaltt newspaper citing its sources in NATO.
In March, it became known that the Netherlands might hand over CH-47D Chinook helicopters to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The second option was to sell them to an American company. In the end, it was chosen.
The first M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles from the USA have arrived in Ukraine this year. They are now actively used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the front and are saving soldiers' lives.
The US State Department has approved the potential sale of more than two hundred M982A1 Excalibur precision-guided munitions to the Spanish armed forces. The sale will be carried out as part of the Foreign Military Sale programme.
Following the approval of an order for the Arrow-3 missile defence system, Germany's budget committee has agreed to allocate funds for the purchase of IRIS-T surface-to-air missile systems in the SLM modification. This was reported by Reuters news agency, citing a German lawmaker on the committee.
Countries that send military aid to Ukraine do not disclose the nomenclature of the ammunition transferred. Therefore, we learn about the ammunition used by the Armed Forces with a delay thanks to photos and videos published by the Ukrainian military.
This time, the Netherlands will help Ukraine strengthen its air defence system. The Netherlands will buy four VERA-NG passive radar stations for Ukraine. The contract is worth 150,000,000 euros.
Lockheed Martin has begun building the first F-35A Lighting II fighter jet for the Belgian Air Force. Major General Thierry Dupont, head of the Air Force, visited the plant in Fort Worth, Texas.
As expected, Germany has officially confirmed funds for the purchase of Israel's Arrow-3 missile defence system. The documents will be signed at the end of the year.
An exercise of unprecedented scale, Air Defender 2023, has been launched in Europe this week. The exercise will feature the B-1B Lancer supersonic bomber.
NATO allies have started training Ukrainian pilots on US F-16 fighter jets. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said this.
