EHTESHAM BARI The first Pakistan International Maritime Expo and Conference (PIMEC) was successfully held at Expo Center, Karachi, Pakistan from February 10-12, 2023. The event received an overwhelming response from the international community. Over 150 delegates representing 50 countries attended PIMEC-2023, including the high level delegations headed either by the...
The Surface-to-Surface Cruise Missile (Kara Atmaca) project has been signed between the Turkish Presidency of Defence Industries (SSB) and Roketsan. The Atmaca Anti-Ship Missile developed by Roketsan for naval platforms will take on a new dimension with the advent of Kara Atmaca. The Kara Atmaca agreement has been signed between SSB and Roketsan, at IDEF’21. SSB President...
– Turkey’s global land systems manufacturer Otokar debuts AKREP IId, the diesel variant of the AKREP II armored vehicle range at IDEF21. – The next-generation vehicles exhibited at the Otokar booth include ARMA 6×6 and ARMA 8×8 multi-wheeled armored vehicles, and TULPAR tracked vehicles. – COBRA II MRAP, the new variant of...
At the 15th International Defence Industry Fair – IDEF’21, HAVELSAN is going to exhibit its autonomous unmanned aerial and land vehicles developed with Robotic and Autonomous technologies. Almost 40 years in simulation technologies, HAVELSAN presents its competencies and capabilities to all participants with the concept of DIGITAL TROOPS, which have been developed...
Serbian Armed Forces presentation of the modernized M-84 tank at the “Cacak” Technical Overhaul Institute. After the presentation, Minister of Defence, Aleksandar Vulin pointed out that the Serbian Armed Forces are certainly a regional tank force and one of the most powerful tank nations in the whole of Europe. – Thanks to the modernization that we have...
The Iranian Ministry of Defense presented Yasin and Balaban precision-guided bomb and smart guided-missiles Qaem, on August 6. In his remarks to the unveiling ceremony, Iranian Defense Minister brigadier-general Amir Hatami told that Balaban smart bomb has folding wings for increasing range and also GPS/INS navigation system for boosting its precision to be installed...
Elbit Systems has concluded extensive testing and carried out a series of successful capability demonstrations of its innovative Armored Fighting Vehicle (AFV), as part of the CARMEL Future Combat Vehicle project of the Israeli Ministry of Defense. The innovative AFV introduces a step change in the operational capability of combat vehicles. This is underpinned by applying...
The Armed Forces of Uzbekistan has received the next batch of Ejder Yalchin TTZA armored vehicles produced by Turkish company Nurol Makina. Armored vehicles were handed over to military units at a ceremony held on August 2 at the Chirchik landfill. 27 October 2017, the Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan and Turkey signed a memorandum on the sale and purchase of 1,000 units...
First shipment of Russian S-400 Triumph (SA-21 Growler) missile defense system hardware to Ankara started on Friday, Turkey’s National Defense Ministry said. “First batch of equipment of S-400 missile defense system, which is procured to meet Turkey’s air and missile defense need, has started to arrive at Murted Air Base in Ankara as of July 12, 2019. Procurement...
On July 9 first two of the 88 Vilkas Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs) produced to the Lithuanian Armed Forces by a German manufacturer were formally handed over to Lithuania. The IFVs will be designated to the Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas Mechanised Infantry Battalion of the Mechanised Infantry Brigade Iron Wolf. The purchase fills in a capability gap in the Lithuanian...