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Russia has established systematic maritime logistics for the supply of artillery ammunition from North Korea, having received between 4 and 6 million shells over the past 20 months.
South Korea's Hanwha Aerospace and Poland's WB Group have signed an agreement to establish a joint venture to produce guided missiles in Poland.
Russia has filed an official request with the Indonesian authorities to transfer the Manuhua military airbase, located near the city of Biak Numfor in the province of Papua, to its disposal. This base is located near the northern coast of New Guinea and in close proximity to Australia.
The United States has allegedly launched a covert operation to replace old B61 nuclear bombs with the latest B61-13 at storage bases in Europe.
The US is likely to consider one of the most radical decisions regarding its military presence in Europe - transferring the functions of the key Ramstein airbase in Germany to Romania, to the Mihail Kogelnicianu base.
Instead of continuing the traditional bureaucratic procedure of modernising the M1 Abrams tank, which is almost 40 years old, the US Army decided to drastically change its approach and create a new platform.
Czech machine-building holding Motor Jikov Group plans to enter the defence industry and focus on the production of artillery shells.
Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken announced plans to purchase additional F-35s, but his country wants them to be manufactured in Italy, not the United States.
The Muramasa unit of the 109th Territorial Defence Brigade demonstrated the destruction of a Korean M1989 Koksan Koksan self-propelled artillery system, which the Russians used in the Kovrovsky area.
The Brave1 Defence Technology Cluster organised a unique test, which simultaneously tested more than 70 ground robotic systems from 50 Ukrainian manufacturers.
The American company General Atomics is upgrading its MQ-9B drones with a laser combat system that will allow it to quickly destroy enemy drones.
Dassault Aviation CEO Eric Trappier has been proposing the creation of a French space plane in recent years, and recently the Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecorneuil, said that the "space issue" is of the greatest concern to him.
Switzerland plans to purchase four or five IRIS-T SLM medium-range air defence systems from Germany's Diehl Defence.
The Netherlands has ordered 46 of the latest Leopard 2A8 tanks from Germany for €2.5 billion after a break of almost 16 years, but there have been problems with the location of the equipment.
The Minister of Defence of Ukraine Rustem Umerov said that the Lithuanian government has allocated EUR 10 million for the purchase of modern Ukrainian long-range weapons for the needs of the Ukrainian Defence Forces.
