North Africa

Twenty years ago, on March 27, 1999, Lt.colonel Zoltàan Dani, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 250 th Air Defense Missile Brigade of the Yugoslav Army, gave the order to his weapons commander, Lt.colonel. Đorđe Aničić to launch a volley of missiles from a well-hidden SA-3 Pechora air defense system.

Russia is proposing the countries of the Middle-East and North Africa region to significantly enforce its air defense system (AD). Protection against ballistic missile attacks can be assured by S-400 ADMS.

According to the journalist Philippe Chapleau from the website “Lignes de défense”, Tunisia could obtain observation balloons from the United States.

Russian JSC NPO High-Precision Complexes is planning to create abroad a network of service centers for MRO and modernization of Pantsir-S1 air defense systems, the relevant talks are going on.

The US government has given the green light for a possible sale of 36 AH-64E attack helicopters to the benefit of the Moroccan Air Force at a cost of 4.25 billion dollars. The order would be for 24 chooper batch with 12 optional aircrafts, 551 Hellfire AGM-114R missiles, 60 A M-114L Hellfire, 588 Hydra rocket laser precision kits and AIM-92H ...

The United States (US) has approved Egypt’s request to provide Follow on Technical Support (FOTS) for its naval ships for $554million.

The Egyptian Air Force today presented the first photo of an Il-76 MF cargo plane with national colors.

Two Il76s belonging to the Ukrainian air cargo company, Europe Air, were destroyed two days ago on the ground while on the tarmac at Al Juffrah airbase in Libya.