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The US Air Force intends to drop not only the F-15 C/D Eagle fighters, but also the Strike Eagle. To begin with, the fleet will be halved.
The B-21 Raider, a next-generation nuclear bomber, will make its maiden flight later than expected. This was announced by U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall at the McAleese & Associates conference in Washington.
The US State Department has approved the sale of Tomahawk cruise missiles to Australia. The deal will be worth almost $1 billion.
Poland continues to arm itself by announcing a new contract for the purchase of AGM-114R2 Hellfire missiles.
In addition to the MiG-29 fighters, Slovakia also agreed to hand over 2K12 Kub anti-aircraft missile systems to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Slovakia will supply the Ukrainian Armed Forces with Soviet-era MiG-29 fighters.
The UK has signed a contract with Sweden for the purchase of advanced Archer self-propelled artillery units.
We have already written more than once that Sweden plans to transfer the Archer SAU to Ukraine. The Swedish government has now officially confirmed this and has also revealed how many guns the Ukrainian Armed Forces will receive.
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has requested $484.7 million for the development of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defence programme. The funding will enable the development of the eighth THAAD battery to begin.
Norwegian company Kongsberg will supply Japan with Joint Strike Missile (JSM) missiles for the fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft. The contracts were signed in 2019 and 2020.
General Electric Aerospace has once again postponed delivery of the engine for the next generation helicopter. It was originally scheduled to be ready by the end of 2022.
The United States Department of Defense Intelligence reports that China has advanced in the development of hypersonic weapons and is already ahead of Russia. The PRC could now destroy US bases in the region.
This week, British and German Eurofighter Typhoon fighters conducted their first joint mission within NATO. They were patrolling Estonian airspace.
France has delivered AMX-10RC wheeled tanks to Ukraine as promised.
The Norwegian government has selected a new naval helicopter for its armed forces.
