General Dembele Adama, the Malian Ministry of Defense and Veterans Affairs’s cabinet chief, said that Mali wanted to sign a new contract with Russia on the purchase of tanks and air force technology, including aircraft, in addition to the existing arms procurement contract. “We in Mali are interested in receiving Russian weapons. We want to…
Over 40 import contracts on the deliveries of defensive equipment for the Ukrainian army, with their total value of $1.5 billion, are currently carried out. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said this during his annual address in the Verkhovna Rada on September 6. “We praise the support from the side of our western partners. Over 40…
India intends to invest more than 20 billion rupees ($300 million) in the creation with Russia’s assistance of a logistics center of spare parts for Russia’s Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighters at the facilities of India’s state-owned aerospace and defense company Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), a source in the Indian Defense Ministry reported. “To date, the main…
The Algerian Ministry of National Defense (MDN) confirmed that it had received its first Mil Mi-28NE Night Hunter attack helicopters when it released coverage of Chief-of-Staff Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaid Salah inspecting Ain Oussera Air Base, 135 km south of Algiers. Two Mi-28NEs were seen fitted with the optional N025E mast-mounted radars and pods for…
The Russian Aerospace Defense Forces (VKO) plans to order the new Kh-32 (also named X-32) cruise missiles to arm its Tupolev Tu-22M3 “Backfire” bombers. The VKO has successfully conducted Operational Evaluation trials of the Kh-32 air-launched stand-off cruise missile. The Kh-32 can use a combination of GLONASS and GPS and radar terrain mapping to achieve…
Anthony Tether, former head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (2001-2009), has become a consultant to Ukraine’s state-owned defense conglomerate Ukroboronprom. A memorandum on cooperation between Ukroboronprom and the director of the American company Tony Tether & Associates was signed in the presence in Kyiv. Tether, the first foreign consultant of Ukroboronprom, will give…
The fight against terrorism, extremism and other threats of the modern world were discussed at the meeting of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan Ramazon Rahimzoda with the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Qatar in the Republic of Tajikistan Ali bin Muborak al-Muhannad. The parties have also discussed the draft agreement…