South Africa's Paramount Group has formed a partnership with Thai firm Jatunapas and the government's Defence Technology Institute (DTI) to manufacture in Thailand the Mbombe 4 mine-resistant armoured fighting vehicle (AFV). D-Lion – a Thai .
With the conflict in Ukraine having again demonstrated the increasingly important role of drones in modern warfare, South Africa’s Paramount Group has introduced a new capability to its Mwari combat aircraft.
The multi-mission Mwari, which has been touted for roles such as border patrol and counter-insurgency, has now been equipped for the counter-UAV role.
The aircraft has been outfitted with a new missile suite that Paramount says will enable it to destroy medium-altitude long endurance (MALE) UAVs at heights of 20,000 to 30,000 feet.
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Lockheed Martin a $102 million contract to modernise 25 of Egypt’s Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopters to AH-64E Apache Guardian standard.
The upgrade announcement comes 19 months after the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) approved a larger foreign military sales (FMS) deal, worth an estimated $2.3 billion, to upgrade a total of 43 Egyptian Apache attack helicopters.
Thus, it appears a possibility that 18 of the aircraft may not be upgraded.
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