Insight: The lay of military land procurement in 2018
Armoured vehicles, tanks and artillery pieces are creeping back to the front of modern warfare and near peer threats now dominate the security landscape many nations are quickly introducing new and upgraded vehicles into their inventory.
Many nations that are now pouring money into improvement and modernisation of their land forces and air defence capabilities are in Eastern Europe which are more than aware of a neighbouring threat, especially since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Raytheon’s Patriot air defence system saw success in both Romania and Poland in 2018 through FMS via the US government. Raytheon received the order
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