MENADEFENSE All about defense from Marrakech to Bengladesh

The Egyptian military will receive the help of ProjectXYZ Inc., a company specializing in obsolescence management and modernization of weapons systems, to modernize its M48A3 Chaparral anti-aircraft launchers.

Each year, Defence News magazine publishes the “Defence News Top 100” list based on defence industry sales of the prior year.

After receiving 930 MRAP armored transport vehicles from the US Army surplus, Egypt is about to order a thousand vehicles from the same source.

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress was notified on 18 July by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DCSA) for a proposal to finance two surplus C-130Hs for the needs of the Moroccan Air Force. This donation of surplus devices is part of the Excess Defense Articles Program.

The Belgian Ministry of Defense has been given the green light by the Council of Ministers to exchange expertise with the Algerian army, in the field of mine clearance and the “demilitarization of ammunition” (destruction and neutralization of mines and ammunition ) (EOD).

The Ruselectronics holding company, which is part of the Rostec Corporation, has presented a drone for video monitoring of power lines. The presentation was held within International Forum “Electrical Grids” taking place in Moscow. The drone features a camera and a thermal imager and can operate absolutely autonomously collecting and communicating data on the state of power grids to operators’ services.

Ruselectronica holding, part of Rostec State Corporation, presented the prototypes of its digital civil DMR (Digital Mobile Radio) stations for the first time at the Innoprom-2019 show. The devices are compatible with all existing domestic and foreign civil systems of professional mobile radio communications. The first production batch is scheduled for 2020.

July 10, 2019 Press release   Rostec State Corporation traditionally takes part in the Innoprom international industrial exhibition, which takes place this year from July 8 to July 11 in Yekaterinburg. Turkey is the partner country of this tenth anniversary Innoprom. During the exhibition, representatives of the Corporation will discuss projects with Turkish partners in various fields, including the aviation ...