🇺🇦 A 2S22 Bohdana 155mm Self-Propelled Howitzer crew from the 52nd Artillery Brigade, 3rd Army Corps, performing routine maintenance on their howitzer.

In terms of armament, the vehicle will come with an RWS equipped with a .50 calibre machine gun or a 14,5mm machine gun with a 7,62mm machine gun mounted coaxially.

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The vehicle is estimated to weigh 15 tonnes and is powered by a 360 hp engine. Protection-wise, it comes with STANAG level 4 on the front, level 3 on the sides and level 3A and B mine protection.

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With the lauded performance of the M113 in Ukrainian service, the MOD itself set out the requirement for a domestic equivalent with better protection and increased firepower.

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🇺🇦 Defence Express reports that UkrArmoTech has begun factory testing of a prototype of its new Skiff tracked armoured personnel carrier.

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🇺🇦 A platoon of the 60th Artillery Brigade, 20th Army Corps, training on the 2P22 Bohdana-BG 155mm Towed Howitzer.

🇫🇷 The chief of staff of the French Army, General Pierre Schill, confirmed that France is working to establish a third division which will primarily be staffed by reservists and conscripts and will be organised for the protection of the national territory.

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- ten (10) Multifunctional Information Distribution Systems on Ship Modernization systems
- nine (9) MK 45 gun mounts
- three (3) AN/SLQ-32(V)6 Electronic Warfare systems
- eight (8) shipsets of AN/SPQ-9B radar systems
- and eight (8) shipsets of AN/WSN-12 Inertial Navigation Systems

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- eight (8) shipsets of MK 41 Baseline VIII Vertical Launch Systems
- eight (8) shipsets of Cooperative Engagement Capability
- eight (8) shipsets of Global Positioning System-based Positioning Navigation and Timing Service
- nine (9) Command and Control Processors

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The package includes:
- eight (8) shipsets of AEGIS-based Integrated Combat System (ICS) MK 6 MOD X computing infrastructures
- eight (8) shipsets of AN/SPY-6(V)1 Active Electronically Scanned Array S-Band radars

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🇺🇸🇩🇪 The US State Department has approved a Foreign Military Sales case to Germany for Integrated Combat System, Supporting Equipment, and Support with an estimated value of 11.9 billion USD.

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🇪🇸 The Spanish company Indra and the Italian IDV have signed a strategic agreement for the supply of 34 SuperAV amphibious 8x8 armoured personnel carriers to the Spanish Marine Infantry.

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🇧🇪 The Belgian Tripartite-class minehunter M924 Primula is being deployed to the Middle East to potentially participate in mine clearance operations in the Strait of Hormuz.

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This is the first step in Autralia's plan under the SEA 300 programme for the procurement of 11 new frigates valued at 20 billion AUD.

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🇦🇺🇯🇵 Australia has signed a contract with the Japanese government and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for the procurement of three upgraded Mogami general-purpose frigates, with the first to be delivered in 2029.

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In total the programme is valued at 3 billion € with the goal to acquire up to 298 IFV to replace the country's ageing fleet of upgraded BMP's.

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🇷🇴 According to news outlet Defence Industry Europe, Romania has all but confirmed that the country has selected the KF-41 Lynx for its IFV procurement programme.

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Said cooperation between Bell and Ukraine could potentially take the form of the transfer of the AH-1Z production line from the USA to Ukraine, as the company had previously also offered it to Germany in an attempt to sell 60 AH-1Z helicopters to the Bundeswehr.

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This follows the signing of a letter of intent with Ukraine's Ministry of Economy, Ecology and Agriculture back in October of 2025.

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The newly created Bell Textron Ukraine will focus on long term cooperation with Ukrainian industry in the fields of helicopter assembly, maintenance, and repair.

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🇺🇦🇺🇸 The US-based Bell Textron announced the creation of a subsidiary in Ukraine with the goal to cooperate in the field of helicopter production.

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Українська TAF Industries та німецька THYRA домовилися про спільне виробництво перехоплювачів у Німеччині Українська компанія TAF Industries та німецький виробник THYRA підписали меморандум про стратегічне співробітництво в рамках програми Build with Ukraine.THYRA спеціалізується на системах протидії безп...

🇩🇪🇺🇦 The German company THYRA and the Ukrainian TAF have signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation that allows for the localisation of the production of TAF's interceptor UAV in Germany.

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🇩🇪 Germany has taken delivery of the last of 53 Airbus A400M military transport aircraft it had ordered.

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Additionally, the Bundeswehr will be setting up a loitering munitions battery under each of the brigade and division-level artillery battalions. The first of which will be under the 45th Brigade in Lithuania, with the 21st Brigade to follow shortly after.

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🇩🇪 Germany is considering equipping corps-level artillery units with loitering munitions capable of reaching targets at a 200 to 300km range (similar to the FP-2 in Ukrainian service).

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Additionally, Belgium will also allocate funds to providing support to Ukraine's F-16AM fleet.

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🇧🇪 As part of its 1 billion € in military aid to Ukraine in 2026, Belgium will be allocating 75 million € to the Czech ammunition initiative, 75 million € to the German air defence initiative and 85 million € to the drone capability coalition for Ukraine.

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🇺🇦🇨🇿 An overview of public pledges to the Czech Artillery Ammunition Initiative as of 17/04/2026.

New additions: 🇧🇪 63,57 million €, 🇨🇦 35,6 million € and 🇱🇹 33 million €

🇺🇦 A list of countries that have allocated funding for the procurement of American weapons for Ukraine through the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative.

Last updated on 17/04/2026 (+ 🇱🇹 24,58 million € )

These systems will replace the KUN medium-range air defence system in Slovak service with the last system to be delivered by the end of 2030.

The Barak system itself has several missile options available with maximum ranges from 15 to 150km.

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