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 The grenade launcher will replace the Soviet-era RPO Rys rocket propelled flamethrower, withdrawn from use in 2014, as the shelf life of its reactive mixture had expired.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…
The Ukrainian military website has released pictures showing the new Ukrainian-made Hrim-2 also called Grom-2, or Thunder-2, a short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile, according to Army Recognition, a global defense security technology and military news portal. The new missile will have a range from 50 to 280 km, Army Recognition said. The missile system is mounted…
A new batch of five more tanks from Ukraine will be delivered late this month as the Royal Thai Army has so far received 31 of the Ukraine-made T84 Oplot tanks, according to Bangkok Post. Ukraine was contracted to supply a battalion of forty-nine T84 Oplot tanks worth 7.2 billion baht in 2011 but was…
Ukraine’s state-owned Ukroboronprom has recently showcased its locally built variant of the AR-15 assault rifle – M4-WAC-47. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (MoD) intends to induct the M4-WAC-47 as part of its technical and operational alignment with NATO. The M4-WAC-47 was developed in collaboration with U.S.-based Aeroscraft. Besides 5.56×45 mm NATO rounds, the M4-WAC-47 can…