“Today’s situation in the world forces all to strengthen the country’s defense capability,” Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said opening the V International Exhibition Weapons Systems and Military Equipment KADEX-2018 in Astana. “Our country pursues peaceful policy aimed at strengthening good-neighborly relations with near and far-abroad countries. However, today’s situation in the world forces all to…
Final tests of a new modification of the Skif anti-tank guided missile system have taken place in Chernihiv region. “The tests included launches of Skif anti-tank guided missiles. All targets were successfully hit,” the press service of Kyiv’s Luch State Design Bureau wrote on Facebook. The Skif portable anti-tank guided missile system is designed to…
The Estonian Center for Defense Investment (ECDI) has seen interest from several bidders in its tender to refit 37 CV-90 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs). Four international companies are in the running, namely BAE Systems, Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft, Bristol Trust, plus a joint offer from Uhinenud Depood and Scania Eest, to refit the Swedish-made vehicles, in…
The state-owned company Ukrspecexport, a part of the State Concern Ukroboronprom and Ukraine’s main exporter of all types of weapons and military equipment, increased its net profit by 69% YoY in January-March, to UAH 64.34 million ($2.4 million) from UAH 38 million ($1.4 million). Net revenue from sales of products in Q1 stood at UAH…
Ukraine’s state-owned enterprise Zhytomyr Armored Plant has upgraded the combat module “Duplet”, which is intended for the modernization of armored vehicles, and it has passed successful tests, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has reported on his Facebook page. He also noted that Zhytomyr Armored Plant had significantly increased the characteristics of the combat module and equipped…
The United States has confirmed the delivery of Javelin antitank missile systems to Ukraine in a move that is welcome in Kyiv but will almost certainly enrage Moscow amid a four-year conflict that pits Russia-backed separatists against Ukrainian national troops. “They have already been delivered,” a U.S. State Department official confirmed on April 30. A…
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has ordered to start the large-scale production of Ukraine’s brand new Vilkha (Alder) missile system in 2018. “The Ukrainian army will get high-precision weapons. I attended the final testing of our Vilkha missile complex,” he wrote on Facebook on April 25. “Why is it so important? Not only because the Ukrainian…