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The information was shared by the Shephard publication. The contract is worth $178 million and will include the delivery of seven MH-139A Gray Wolf helicopters to the U.S. Air Force, although the U.S. Army plans to purchase a total of 26 aircraft. The new helicopters will replace a fleet of older UH-1N Twin Huey helicopters, which have been in service for more than 50 years.
Ukraine has tested combat ground drones of various types and purposes.
BAE Systems expects Ukraine to sign a contract for the production of 105mm L119 guns.
The Czechoslovak Group wants to invest millions of dollars in the creation of joint defence ventures in Ukraine.
The Bundeswehr has signed a contract with German company Rheinmetall to install the Skyranger 30 mobile air defence system on Boxer armoured vehicles.
Ukroboronprom signed an agreement with Czech company Česká zbrojovka a.s. on licensed production of small arms in Ukraine.
The agreement on Patriot missiles was signed between NSPA(NATO Support and Procurement Agency) and COMLOG, a joint venture between Raytheon, RTX and MBDA. The total value of the contract is up to USD 5.6 billion. The contract provides for the supply of 1,000 Patriot GEM-T missiles to countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, Romania and Spain.
The information was shared by the company's CEO Armin Papperger, the WirtschaftsWoche business daily has reported. The plant is planned to open in Ukraine in 2024. It will produce Fuchs wheeled armoured personnel carriers and Lynx infantry fighting vehicles.
The State Service for Emergency Situations received the first machine for preparing soil for demining, which was developed and manufactured in Ukraine. The presentation of this vehicle took place on 27 October 2023 at the Interregional Centre for Humanitarian Demining and Rapid Response of the State Service for Emergency Situations. The vehicle was handed over to the sappers by the Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleg Sinegubov.
Mykhailo Fedoriv, Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, posted a photo of the ST1 reconnaissance drone on his Facebook page. This is a new development of Brave1, a cluster of state support for developments in the field of Defence Tech, which provides start-ups and developers with financial, informational or organisational support.
Sweden has ordered BAE Systems Hägglunds AB to develop a new version of the CV90 infantry fighting vehicle to replace the BMPs that were handed over to Ukraine.
The information was shared by the press service of Ukrainian Armor. The company's employees and military personnel visited the factory in Spain, where they had time to test the combat vehicle and familiarised themselves with the BMP production process. Ukrainian servicemen tested the ASCOD in order to compare the machine's properties with the existing variants in service with the AFU.
Australian companies Black Sky Aerospace and Funnel Web Systems showed an unmanned rocket system at MSPO-2023.
Poland intends to increase production of self-propelled artillery units of 155 mm calibre AHS Krab. This was announced by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
Northrop Grumman became the first company to open a plant in the United States to produce air-jet engines for hypersonic missiles. The enterprise appeared in the state of Maryland.
