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The US defence company Raytheon has signed an agreement to manufacture its Coyote jet interceptor drones in the United Arab Emirates.
The French defence company KNDS supplies 90% of the barrels produced for Caesar self-propelled artillery systems to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This was reported by the French newspaper Le Monde.
Vietnam and the United States have reached an agreement in principle to sell at least 24 American F-16 multi-role fighters. This was reported by 19FortyFive, citing its own sources, who note that the negotiations lasted several years and culminated in the gradual rapprochement between the two countries in the defence sector.
Japan's iQPS Institute will provide Ukraine with images from orbit obtained through radar reconnaissance.
Ukraine will start joint development of satellites for defence purposes with international partners in 2026. The plans are envisaged in the ten-year roadmap of the Ministry of Defence.
Ukrainian soldiers destroyed a Russian Forpost strike and reconnaissance drone using an interceptor drone at high altitude. The video of the successful operation was posted on the page of the commander of the 414th separate brigade of the Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Birds of Magyars".
Russian propaganda sources report on the testing of a new ground robotic platform called Volchanin, created at the Volsk Military Institute of Material Support.
Over the past week, British Eurofighter Typhoons participating in NATO's Baltic Air Policing operation took off three times to intercept Russian aircraft near the airspace of the Baltic States. This was reported by the press service of the Royal Air Force of Great Britain.
Ankara will provide Bosnia and Herzegovina with two Bayraktar TB2 multi-purpose drones along with ground equipment and training for crews. This was reported by Deutsche Welle, citing a statement by the country's Defence Minister Zukan Khelez.
Chinese scientists from the 705th Research Institute of the CSSC Shipbuilding Corporation have successfully tested a new type of non-nuclear hydrogen explosive device using magnesium hydride as the main component.
The only currently known Russian T-72B3M tank with the Arena-M active protection system is likely to have been used in a propaganda film instead of combat operations. This was reported by armour researcher Andriy Tarasenko.
South Korea is actively promoting its K9 Thunder self-propelled howitzer to Canada, which is trying to modernise its military.
Recently, on 17 April, the German government officially blocked the supply of about three dozen Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets to Turkey. This was reported by the Handelsblatt newspaper, citing sources close to the decision-making process.
The US Marine Corps has deployed its latest NMESIS robotic launch systems with Naval Strike Missile for the first time in the Philippines.
Police in Zaporizhzhia have started using drones for aerial street patrols. The new drones are equipped with powerful cameras and technologies to detect suspicious persons and objects and respond quickly to possible incidents.
