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Foreign Military Sales ( FMS) is a security assistance program of the United States government to facilitate the purchase of U.S. arms, defense equipment, design and construction services, and military training to foreign governments. [1] FMS is a government-to-government program where the United States Department of Defense through the Defense ...
Jefferies reveals five winners from a budding race to increase spending on the military in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The M777 howitzer is a British towed 155 mm artillery piece in the howitzer class. It is used by the ground forces of Australia, Canada, Colombia, India, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, and the United States.
The equipment mentioned here is part of the program NNbS, ("Nah- und Nächstbereichs-schutz"), close air-support for the ground troops. At the moment, no decision has been made regarding the operator of those systems, it could go to the Bundeswehr or the Luftwaffe. In 2010, the German forces decided to retire the last 90 Flakpanzer Gepard.
The military truck division of Oshkosh Corp. learned in June that a new $9.7 billion JLTV contract would go to AM General, of South Bend, Indiana.
General-purpose machine gun. 5.56×45mm NATO. [citation needed] M2 Browning. United States. Heavy machine gun. 12.7×99mm NATO. Standard heavy machine gun of the Saudi Arabian army. [citation needed] Sniper rifles and designated marksman rifles.
June 15, 2024 at 5:30 AM. Germany is marking its first Veterans’ Day since World War Two on Saturday, a once unthinkable move that sets aside long-standing unease over the honoring of its ...
The United States Army has over 40 military installations in Germany, two of which are scheduled to close. Over 220 others have already been closed, mostly following the end of the Cold War in the 1990s. The rationale behind the large number of closures is that the strategic functions of the bases, designed to serve as forward posts in any war against the USSR, are no longer relevant since the ...