Russia reinforces forces on the border with Ukraine
However, what at first glance appears to be a new build-up of the Russian army on the border with Ukraine deserves to be noted as a continuation of last spring’s build-up (March-April). and redistributed to new sites.
In addition, Russia has begun to deploy new forces, adding some of its best-equipped and trained units, in the border area, at sites outside the gates of its general education spaces near the border. Russia’s intentions in this phase of structure, and on December 7, US President Joe Biden held a two-hour virtual summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the structure.
The Ministry of Defense of Finland (MoD) announced in a press release on December 7 that it had authorized the Defense Forces of Finland (FDF) to sign a contract with Krauss-Maffei Wegmann to modernize the Army’s Leopard Fire Control Systems (FCS). tanks (MBT) 2A4 and Leopard 2A6. The ministry valued the purchase, adding options, at €10 million (US$11 million), value-added tax.
Valley Tech Systems Inc (VTS) has secured a subcontract to expand and integrate its generation of lable forged propulsion for a balancing subsystem into Lockheed Martin’s Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) offering.
NGI is a competitive program, led through Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, aimed at creating a new strategic missile interceptor for the defense of U. S. territory against “rebel” states such as North Korea.
VTS’ contract, worth up to $94 million “for base diversity and long-term options,” is to supply “a robust propulsion roll control subsystem to help stabilize NGI’s flight path,” the company said in a dec. 7 statement. Generation progression and threat relief phase, Valley Tech Systems will provide Lockheed Martin with “a flight-qualified subsystem and in production position. . . on the commissioning date of 2027”.
On November 14, 2021, RADA announced receipt of $5 million for a first pre-order of its extended multi-mission hemispheric radar (exMHR), with a computer-generated radar symbol fixed on a joint soft tactical vehicle (JLTV) in a quadruple configuration, suggesting that the exMHR can only be used for an upcoming mobile variant (I-Dome) iron dome.
Along with the press release, the exMHR product page on the company featured the same symbol as well as the symbol of a 6 series truck × 6 Rheinmetall-MAN HX supplied as a transport vehicle, assembler, launcher and radar (LOOM).
The symbol of the moment was first noticed at Eurosatory 2018 with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems I-Dome TELAR, with 10 Tamir missile launch boxes fixed in the launch assembly, arranged in sealed canisters in one position to be inserted into a 2× five cartridge raised cells at the rear of the truck. The exMHR fixed at the front, right at the rear of the cabin in a quadruple configuration, similar to the JLTV symbol but in a closed, truncated and pyramidal housing.
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