By Evan Butler-Jones
Director, Defense Product Line, Aviation & Defense Business Unit, IFS
With ever-evolving equipment, budgets and geo-political landscapes, military organizations are having to constantly stay on top of technical, tactical and political developments happening in the defense sector. Moving in-sync with advances in…
Introduction
On January 06 photos emerged purporting that a NORINCO VT4 main battle tank (MBT) was in Pakistan, ostensibly for trials for an apparent Pakistan Army bid for an off-the-shelf MBT to augment its growing – albeit slowly – force of Heavy…
Turkey and Russia have formally concluded a deal to procure an S-400 long-range air defence system with an option for one more.
Pakistan and the United Kingdom have ‘revived’ an earlier memorandum-of-understanding (MoU) on Defence Technical Cooperation
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan revealed to Turkish journalists that Ankara has already paid a deposit for the purchase of S-400 systems from Russia
Eurosam, Aselsan and Roketsan have signed a “Heads of Agreement” protocol to support Turkey’s long-range air defence system program
Turkey has signed with the French-Italian air defence consortium Eurosam and its Aster 30-based long-range surface-to-air missile system
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund established a new state-owned defence company – Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI)
Pakistan’s Minister of Defence Production, Rana Tanveer Hussain, visited Yugoimport-SDPR’s exhibit at IDEX 2017, expressing interest in the NORA B-52
Turkey has greenlighted an order for the second batch of Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighters for the Turkish Air Force…