First Deputy Minister for Strategic Industries of Ukraine Valeriy Ivashchenko and Deputy Defense Minister of Brazil Marcos Rosas Degaut Pontes have signed a memorandum of understanding. Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister for Strategic Industries Oleh Urusky noted that he considered cooperation between Ukraine and Brazil as complementary, because both countries had something to…
Head of Ukraine’s state-run Ukroboronprom Concern Ihor Fomenko says missiles and radars are the most popular Ukraine-made weapons sold abroad. “These are the Skif, Stugna and Corsar missile systems, which are very popular. Ukrainian radar systems, missile systems, spare parts for aviation equipment are also popular abroad. These are missile launchers for the Navy of…
Ukroboronprom, Ukraine’s state-owned defense concern, has released a public appeal to the President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Denysh Shmyhal, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov, and Rada Defense Committee Chair Oleksandr Zavitnevych, voicing “concern regarding the curtailment of Ukraine’s defense industry reform and interference into its economic activities by the Ministry of Strategic…
Ministries have failed to fulfill the state defense order for the current year and tasks to reform the country’s military-industrial complex, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov has announced during an interdepartmental meeting on the development of the defense industry and the implementation of the state defense order to meet…
Ukrainian military have received a batch of RPO-16 jet infantry flamethrowers, the defense giant Ukroboronprom reports. The high-explosive effect of the RPO-16 shot is equivalent to an artillery shell, so the portable weapon is capable of destroying enemy manpower even in powerful shelters at a range of nearly one kilometer. The State Research Institute of…
The main objectives of Latvia’s defense sector for 2021 will be modernization of the country’s army and enhancement of its cyber security, according to the legislative draft on the 2021 state budget. Defense Ministry’s planned expenditures for 2020 reach EUR 548,332,786, whereas next year’s expenditures are EUR 693,521,903. It is planned to spend EUR 201,863,149…
The Lviv State Aircraft Repair Plant SE, a part of the Ukroboronprom Group, has handed over to the military another upgraded MiG-29MU1 fighter jet. That’s according to the plant CEO Dmytro Matrunchyk, Ukroboronprom’s press service reports. “On the eve of Ukraine Defender Day, the enterprise launched test flights of another modernized MiG-29MU1 jet,” the official…