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The Public Warehousing Company KSC (PWC), rebranded as Agility, on 15 April issued a statement to the Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) saying that the United States’ Defence Logistics Agency (DLA) had appointed another company to manage its main supply contract for Kuwait and Iraq.
India’s Financial Express newspaper reported that Oman has become the first country in West Asia to place an order for guns with an Indian supplier.
A three-day military exercise by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) ground, air and naval units, which began on 22 April, was intended to test a range of Iranian-built missiles and other equipment.
The US Department of Defence has awarded Lockheed Martin Corporation a $46.2m contract to produce advanced helicopter weapons-targeting systems for the Apache helicopter fleets of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Netherlands.
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Senior United States Department of Defence officials have criticised the defence industry for inadequate quality control on missile defence programmes, saying the administration planned to use more fixed-price contracts.
United Kingdom, BAE Systems, Germany, Italy, Spain, Royal Omani Air Force, Jaguar squadrons, UK's Royal Air Force, RAF Coningsby, Eurofighter Typhoon,
Canada’s Bombardier could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in future Iraqi contracts if its Supreme Court rules in favour of Kuwait Airways in its long-running dispute with Iraq.
An Islamist parliamentary group has warned the government not to purchase French-made Rafale fighter jets, saying the deal is “suspicious”.
The US State Department’s report highlights three sets of arrests over the past six months:
Despite the US company’s $170m deal with the UAE, European firms are proving increasingly strong competition for air-launched missile systems contracts
The French believe they can swing a much-needed sale of Rafale fighters as Kuwait enters a new procurement cycle. But even if planned deals are about renewal rather than expansion, MPs have tough questions for a government that is struggling to command confidence
Despite an increasingly sophisticated military infrastructure, a fatal crash and a number of technical faults at a recent air show have undermined President Ahmadinejad’s threats of retaliation if the US or Israel were to strike
Like Iraq’s air force, the country’s military helicopter force became a politically sensitive issue after the fall of Saddam Hussein due to the perception that such forces were extensively used in internal repression. It was arguably General Norman Schwarzkopf’s agreement to let Saddam use his helicopters after the 1991 Safwan ceasefire that sealed the fate of the uprising against him at the end of the 1991 Gulf War. Nevertheless, no modern military can function without helicopters, much less one involved in the most intense counter-insurgency in the region. As a result, the modern Iraqi helicopter force is developing faster than other aspects of the country’s air force.
Demands for the return of Saddam-era jets stranded abroad by international sanctions and a raft of contracts for fighter and training aircraft illustrate the IrAF’s impatience to achieve ‘strategic independence’ by 2020
