Ukraine’s state-owned defense industrial group, Spetstechnoexport, has unveiled for the first time the new model of high-precision multiple rocket launching system Vilkha at the international Defense exhibition IDEX 2019 in the UAE. According to a company statement, the new Ukrainian high precision multiple rocket launching system Vilkha with 300mm caliber missiles is considered one of…
As part of the visit of a delegation of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry and State Concern Ukroboronprom to Jordan, Director General of Ukroboronprom Pavlo Bukin met with Prince Faisal bin Hussein. The parties discussed, in particular, the issues of military and technical cooperation, Ukroboronprom’s press service reported. “The parties discussed the issues of bilateral military and…
Enterprises of the State Concern Ukroboronprom announced more than 43,000 commercial electronic tenders in 2018, the press service of the concern reports. “In 2018, more than 43,000 commercial electronic tenders were created by the enterprises subordinated to the State Concern Ukroboronprom. In general, since the launch of electronic trading platforms, the number of announced tenders…
Ukraine in 2019 should begin a deep modernization program for its T-64 main battle tanks, the core of the country’s tank fleet, director of Defense Express consulting company Serhiy Zgurets declared. “My opinion is that we need to increase the efficiency of tanks that are already on the battlefield in sufficient numbers. In 2019, we…
The state-run military-industrial Concern Ukroboronprom in 2018 transferred 50 aircraft and helicopters to the Ukrainian Army, after their upgrade and repair performed by Ukraine’s aviation industry cluster, which included 16 enterprises, all part of the concern. The list includes Su-27 and MiG-29 fighters, Su-25 attack aircraft, Su-24 strike aircraft, An-26 and Il-76 transport aircraft, L-39…
Lithuania has acquired additional combat and training missiles for the Norwegian medium-range aid defense systems NASAMS it is buying from Norway, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defense said. Due to security reasons, the ministry does not disclose either the volume of the additional missiles, or the price, only saying that the total value of the purchase,…
The Lithuanian government gave the go-ahead for the Defense Ministry to develop military bases in the city of Siauliai and in the districts of Silale and Vilnius on a public-private partnership (PPP) basis. A total of up to 165 million euros at net present value are planned to be allocated for the military bases, which…