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  Have Guns, Will Upgrade: The M109A7 Paladin PIM Self-Propelled Howitzer

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/have-guns-will-upgrade-the-m109a6-paladin-pim-partnership-04039/

  The USA's 155mm M109 self-propelled howitzers (SPH) were first introduced in 1962, as a form of armored mobile artillery that could stand up to the massed fire tactics of Soviet heavy artillery and rockets. They and their companion M992

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  Category:Joint Special Operations Task Force - Philippines – Wikimedia Commons

  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Joint_Special_Operations_Task_Force_-_Philippines?uselang=de

  Keine Beschreibung vorhanden.

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  Category:FV180 Combat Engineer Tractor – Wikimedia Commons

  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:FV180_Combat_Engineer_Tractor?uselang=de

  Keine Beschreibung vorhanden.

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  MRAPs and New Wheeled APCs for Spain

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/mraps-and-new-wheeled-apcs-for-spain-04144/

  Western militaries are quickly coming to the realization that the light Land Rover, G-Wagen, and HMMWV type flat bottom vehicles deployed as light troop transports are no longer adequate on a non-linear battlefield with no defined front lines, in a world

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  Umkhonto Missiles to Equip Visby Corvettes?

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/umkhonto-missiles-to-equip-visby-corvettes-03253/

  Forecast International reports that Sweden has decided to equip its 5 Visby Class stealth corvettes with Denel's Umkhonto-IR anti-aircraft missile system (and see PDF brochure) at a total cost of about SEK 1 billion (currently about $149.6 million). The

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  South Korea to Buy Another 20 F-15K Fighters?

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/south-korea-to-buy-another-20-f15k-fighters-02276/

  Back in 2002, the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) selected the F-15K advanced derivative of the F-15E Strike Eagle for its Next Generation Fighter Program. Under that $3.6 billion contract, Boeing will deliver 40 aircraft to the ROKAF beginning

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  Patrol for Pennies: Vietnam’s DHC-6 Twin-Otter 400s

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Vietnamese-Navy-Orders-DHC-6-Twin-Otter-400s-06373/

  Canadian firm Viking Air of Sidney, BC achieved a double-breakthrough with its recent sale to Vietnam. Its modern DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 400 variant of the legendary global bush plane will become the Vietnamese military's first western aircraft, and the

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  Too Late? Canada’s CASW for 40mm GMGs

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Too-Late-Canadas-CASW-for-40mm-GMGs-06694/#more-6694

  The infantry soldier is the center of gravity in current wars, and improvements to the individual soldier's equipment and firepower overmatch often provide most bang for the

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  Kuwait to Upgrade its Spada Air-Defense Systems

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/kuwait-to-upgrade-its-spada-airdefense-systems-03128/

  Kuwait has awarded MBDA a 3-year, EUR 65 million (currently about $86 million) contract to upgrade the Aspide air defense missile batteries deployed by the Kuwaiti air defence brigade. The units and missiles will be upgraded to SPADA 2000 configuration,…

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  Upgrading the Admiral: Russia’s Kuznetsov

  http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Upgrading-the-Admiral-Russias-Kuznetsov-06305/#more-6305

  Russia's "heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers" have received a lot of unfavorable attention from India's snake-bit deal to refurbish the Admiral Gorshkov; in fairness, however, the Russians haven't had much more luck with their own ship. Launched in 1985,

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