CEO of Ukraine’s state-run military-industrial concern Ukroboronprom Pavlo Bukin says Ukrainian enterprises of the military-industrial complex in the past three years exported military products to India to the tune of about $400 million. Mykolaiv-based Zorya-Mashproekt alone sold gas turbines worth $200 million to the Indian Navy for its warships, the concern’s press service said. “In…
The contract for supplying Oplot-T tanks to the Kingdom of Thailand has been successfully completed, Ukroboronprom Director General Pavlo Bukin has said. A press release by Ukroboronprom citing Bukin said the last party of tanks had passed checks by the customers and would be sent to the buyer in the near future. “The contract was…
Ukraine has successfully tested the new 152mm artillery ammunition produced by the state-owned Kyiv-based Artem, which is a part of the country’s major arms producer UkrOboronProm. Thus, Ukraine has secured own production of large caliber artillery ammunition, according to Pavlo Bukin, CEO at UkrOboronProm (UOP). Commenting on the results of the latest tests, Bukin said…
After the Turkish government has recently put out an urgent request for 120 complete active protection systems to go on M60A3, M60T, and Leopard 2A4 tanks, Turkish defense contractor Aselsan obtained a license from Ukraine’s Microtek to produce a version of their Zaslon-L system, which it called the Akkor Pulat. Aselsan’s own Akkor system is…
The Ukroboronprom State Concern has started creating the radar and electronic warfare cluster, the press service of the concern reported. The state-owned enterprise (SOE) Scientific and Production Complex Iskra is the leading enterprise of this cluster. A significant growth of sales volumes in 2017 for the needs of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine was…
The defense industry plays an important role in the economy of every confident country in the world, including Azerbaijan, whose defense industry is expanding with each passing year. In 2017 the enterprises of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense Industry continued work on the production of defense products. The ministry noted that the volume of defense and…
Kyiv’s Luch State Design Bureau has developed a brand new 107mm rocket-propelled grenade launcher. The grenade launcher will replace the Soviet-era RPO Rys rocket propelled flamethrower, withdrawn from use in 2014, as the shelf life of its reactive mixture had expired. The new sample of a heavy infantry weapon is designed to engage such targets…