Defence Industry |
During a visit of the Syrian President Bashar Asad to Russia in January 2005, the leaders of the two countries discussed the issues of military and technical cooperation between the two countries.
15.02.2005 Visits - 31772 Posts - 0 |
Defence Industry |
The Finnish Ministry of Defence intends to sell several hundreds of Soviet-produced tanks.
15.02.2005 Visits - 22083 Posts - 0 |
Defence Industry |
In accordance with the Decision taken by the Russian Federation's Government on 31 December 2004, the military units will be gradually equipped with BMD-4 airborne combat vehicles starting from the year 2005.
15.02.2005 Visits - 20015 Posts - 0 |
Defence Industry |
The government testing of the upgraded BTR-70 armoured personnel carrier, called Skif (Scythian), have been completed in the Ukraine.
15.02.2005 Visits - 21309 Posts - 0 |
Defence Industry |
New Zealand's Army has received first 20 Pinzgauer 718 6x6 light tactical vehicles out of the total of 321 to be delivered.
15.02.2005 Visits - 25322 Posts - 0 |
Defence Industry |
According to the preliminary results of Russia's defence export efforts during the year 2004, the total scope of defence export amounted to $5.6-5.7 billion, which shows an increase by 200-300 million if compared with the year 2003.
12.01.2005 Visits - 24314 Posts - 5 |
Training And Simulators |
The latest years have seen a considerable increase in the use of computer-based equipment for training of the personnel of the Land Army, Navy, Air Force and Air Defence Force. Based on the gained experience, one can determine the most popular hierarchic structure of computer-based armoured vehicle crew training aids as well as the general principles of their design.
11.01.2005 Visits - 70843.4 Posts - 5 |
Defence Industry |
Austria has placed an order with the German company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann for twenty 4õ4 armoured cars designated Dingo 2. This deal is the first export order of these new vehicles.
11.01.2005 Visits - 18357 Posts - 0 |
Defence Industry |
The United States and Pakistan have reached and agreement about supply of weapons to Pakistan for the total amount of $1.2 billion.
11.01.2005 Visits - 17472 Posts - 0 |
Defence Industry |
According to the results of 2004, the export of arms and military equipment from Germany has increased four times as much in compared with the previous year.
11.01.2005 Visits - 19935 Posts - 0 |
Defence Industry |
Two Russian companies, which are involved in the production of military motor-cars, viz. UAZ and KamAZ, have carried out a presentation of their products in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.
11.01.2005 Visits - 18785 Posts - 0 |
Defence Industry |
In 1997, the Indian Land Forces filed a request for modernisation of 1500 T-72 MBTs. In the year 2001, the Ministry of Defence tokk a decision to carry out the modernisation in batches. The first batch consisting of 300 T-72s are to be modernised by the year 2007.
11.01.2005 Visits - 22698 Posts - 0 |
Defence Industry |
The American California-based company Meggitt Defense Systems (which is a part of the British Meggitt PLC) has bought the Canada-based Schreiner Canada company for $5.3 million.
11.01.2005 Visits - 15761 Posts - 0 |
Defence Industry |
On 6 December, the Russian President Vladimir Putin made an official visit to Turkey. The visit procedures included a meeting of the Russian Federation's Minister of Defence Sergey Ivanov with official representatives of the Turkish ministry of Defence.
11.01.2005 Visits - 18933 Posts - 0 |
Defence Industry |
The Interdepartmental Committee of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation has approved the results of the trials of the new-generation armoured personnel carrier designated GAZ-5912 (BTR-90).
11.01.2005 Visits - 38374 Posts - 0 |
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