Center for analysis of world arms trade, 12th of March. The US Department of State approved the potential supply of the UAE of the AIM-9X-2 short-range guided missile block 2 “Sidewinder” of the “air-to-air” class within the framework of the program “Foreign military sales”.
“Военный Паритет“, March, 18th, 2018 – Angola will buy three navy patrol aircraft Airbus C295 for the control of its exceptional economic zone, janes.com reports today.
On February 21, 2018, the portal armyrecognition.com reported that the Council for Military Support of Defense of India (Defense Acquisition Council of India (DAC)) approved the allocation of 9.2 billion rupees ($ 150 million) for the purchase of the Sarath infantry fighting vehicles. Thus, in the coming years the Indian army will receive another hundred and fifty infantry fighting vehicles.
The Minister of Defense of Finland, Jussi Ninisto, reported that on February 8, 2018, the first consignment of South Korean 155 mm / 52 self-propelled howitzers K9 Thunder (Finnish Moukari) arrived in the Finnish port of Vuosaari (Helsinki).
The modernized Su-25 attack aircraft, named “Dzhe-31 Bora”, assembled at the «Tbilaviastroitel’», Georgia intends to offer to buyers in Africa and Asia for US $ 20-25 million apiece.