Defence Notes

India’s Defence Acquisition Council green lights $26.8 billion in spending

4th December 2023

India’s Defence Acquisition Council has unveiled a list of equipment needs and has stipulated that 98% of the contract value must be spent domestically. It added that 50% of the indigenous content should be in the form of material, components and software made in India.

Air Warfare

Germany's Pegasus SIGINT jet passes critical milestone

16th November 2023

Two years ago, Hensoldt was awarded the contract to supply an airborne system for electronic signals intelligence (SIGINT) on board Bombardier business jets.

Defence Notes

Rheinmetall joins in Ukrainian JV on the support and manufacture of military vehicles

24th October 2023

Germany’s Rheinmetall will provide further support to Ukraine, on top of billions-of-dollars worth of munitions, by taking a majority stake in a military vehicles company.

Land Warfare

Bulgaria gets billion-dollar green light to buy Stryker armoured vehicles

5th September 2023

The sale of 183 General Dynamics Land Systems Stryker armoured fighting vehicles to Bulgaria in a range of variants has been approved by the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) as a Foreign Military Sale in a deal worth $1.5 billion.

Special operations vehicles

Neton VLOE - (Spain - Navy)

Programme Background Information regarding the Spanish Navy's procurement of the Einsa Neton remains limited, however, it is likely that decisions to procure the platform arose from ...

Military helicopters - multirole

UH-60M Black Hawk-Saudi Arabia

At the end of June 2017, Sikorsky had received the green light from the US Army for a five year contract worth $3.8 billion for ...

Trainer

Hurjet (Turkey)

Programme Background The Turkish Executive Committee of Defence Industry (SSIK) has officially given the green light to mass production of the Hürjet trainer and light ...

Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - mini, Military UAS - rotary-wing

Beyond Vision Drones [Portugal]

Programme Background Contract Award On 14 February 2023, Beyond Vision announced that it had been awarded a €600,375 contract for the acquisition of "6 Mulittoror ...

Fighter - electronic warfare

Jamming and Escort Electronic Attack Aircraft (luWES) [Germany]

Programme Background According to earlier reports, Berlin had earlier decided to procure 15 EA-18G Growlers over the Eurofighter Typhoon ECR concept, which is expected to be ...

Landing platform docks/dock landing ships

Modified Ivan Green Class (Project 11711)

Programme Background The modified Ivan Gren class (Project 11711) large amphibious assault ships (LST) have been designed by Nevskoe Design Bureau for the Russian Navy. Two ships ...

Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - mini

RQ-20 Puma (Belgium)

Programme Background Requirement The Belgian MoD outlined plans to procure more mini and tactical UAS in its Strategic Vision for Defence published in 2016. According ...

Landing platform docks/dock landing ships

Ivan Gren Class (Project 11711)

Programme Background The Ivan Gren-class (Project 11711) large amphibious assault ships (LST) have been designed for the Russian Navy by Nevskoe Design Bureau to undertake landing operations ...

OPVs

OPVs (4-7) [Colombia]

Programme Background Requirements The 2042 "Plan de Desarrollo Naval" (Naval Development Plan) outlines the intention to have seven in-service OPVs by 2042.  In particular, the new ...

Loitering munitions

Mini-Harpy [Israeli Navy]

Programme Background MADEX 2023 At MADEX 2023, IAI displayed the Mini-Harpy, dubbed the Green Dragon, loitering munition in a 12-system launcher mounted to an Israel Navy Sa'ar 6 ...

Loitering munitions

Harop [Israeli Navy]

Programme Background MADEX 2023 At MADEX 2023, IAI displayed the Mini-Harpy, dubbed the Green Dragon, loitering munition in a 12-system launcher mounted to an Israel ...

Sealift/replenishment vessels

Polar Class 4 Icebreaker [Argentina]

Programme Background Timeline The programme dates back to 2014 when the Argentine navy had sought to acquire a vessel for cargo and fuel transport, capable of sailing ...

Patrol boats

FPB 98 (Ukraine)

Programme Background The international competition had been launched in the Spring of 2018 by the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior for the reinforcement of the State ...

Transport

Large Transport Aircraft-II (LTA-II) [South Korea]

Programme Background Requirements The aircraft are needed for peacetime, international peacekeeping, emergency and combat operations. They are especially required to ensure a strategic lift capacity ...

Tanks

VT4 Haider (Pakistan)

Programme Background Pakistan appears to have commenced its programme to acquire a new military off-the-shelf MBT in 2015, when several MBT designs were tested under ...

Laser pointers

Lima Laser Sights

Lima red and green laser fore grips are low-profile rail-mounted laser sights. The laser operates in momentary-on mode, with an additional continuous mode on the ...

Loitering munitions

Green Dragon loitering munition

The Green Dragon is a silent, tactical, low-cost loitering munition system designed to provide small ground units and SOFs with significant situational awareness and firepower ...

Core systems: image intensifiers

3631 Series

3631-series I2 tubes feature gallium arsenide (Gen III) photocathodes, high gain and sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio of 24 with exportable figure of merit available exceeding 1,800. ...

Laser pointers

NCFL 9 Series

The NCFL 9 series is comprised of compact, mountable illumination/aiming systems that can be used on a wide variety of weapons including handguns and assault ...

Laser pointers

DBAL-A2

The Dual Beam Aiming Laser - Advanced (DBAL-A) 2 is equipped with an IR-laser pointer, an adjustable IR-laser illuminator and a choice of a visible ...

Air: mission management systems

Aertimer

The Thommen Aertimer cockpit display provides up-to-date time references for the avionics system. The clock installs into a 2in air transport indicator. The system features ...

Air: mission management systems

Stratotimer

The Thommen Stratotmer is a multi-function chronograph for aeronautical applications. It displays UTC time, flight time and elapsed time and a single push-to-set knob sets ...

EO/IR systems

RedEdge-MX

The MicaSense RedEdge is a multi-spectral sensor designed for agricultural applications to measure the health of crops. The sensor uses five narrow spectral bands captured during ...

Laser pointers

DBAL-A3

The Dual Beam Aiming Laser – Advanced (DBAL-A) 3 is equipped with an IR laser pointer, an adjustable IR laser illuminator and a choice of ...

Sniper rifles

SG 751 SAPR

The 7.62mm SG 751 Swiss Arms Precision Rifle (SAPR) is based on the SIG 55X assault rifle family. The modular design allows the user to ...

Laser pointers

LAM 3G

The LAM 3G three-channel device has a green visible-laser aimer for improved contrast, an IR-laser aimer and an IR illuminator to meet tactical requirements. The ...

Naval: COMINT and ELINT systems

CA4034 Series

The CA4034-48-48 antenna distribution system is a solid-state antenna switch matrix from HF receiving systems. Designed with high-performance, ultra-high-linearity amplifiers and proprietary solid-state switching topology, ...

Laser pointers

LLM Vario-Ray Compact

The Laser Light Module (LLM) Vario-Ray Compact model is lighter and more compact than the previous model, due to the integration of a fixed LED ...

Land: NVGs

BNVD-SG UL

NVD's lightweight BNVD-SG UL is a dual-tube goggle with single gain control. The company reports that this is the lightest fully-functional dual-tube goggle in the ...

Sniper rifles

TRG 22

In production since 1999, the .308 Win TRG 22 medium-range sniper rifle is available in six configurations: fixed stock versions with an integrated tactical rail ...