Military Equipment
Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 06:17
As Qatar and Kuwait anxiously await clearance from the White House to purchase new tranches of advanced fourth-generation fighters, Israeli concerns about maintaining its military edge rest on a simple belief: that Israel will retain regional exclusivity over the fifth-generation F-35 for the foreseeable future.
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 06:49
Too often, U.S. security assistance to its Middle Eastern partners is imbalanced toward big-ticket military hardware such as multi-billion-dollar advanced fighter jet deals. But this type of assistance does not address the complex challenge caused by increasingly more effective and dangerous asymmetric threats such as ISIS, al-Qaeda and its affiliates, or Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its proxies.
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 06:38
The U.S. government is poised to approve two long-delayed sales of Boeing Co fighter jets to Qatar and Kuwait, and could announce the multibillion-dollar deals during President Barack Obama’s visit to the Gulf this week, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 06:22
Israel wants extensive US multiyear funding to field a multilayered system for detecting and destroying border-breaching tunnels — a mission defined by Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon as “a top priority” for the nation’s defense establishment.
Friday, April 15, 2016 - 06:03
America and its coalition partners have begun arming the Kurdish peshmerga with heavy weapons such as armored personnel carriers, mortars and anti-tank weaponry to bolster their capability against the Islamic State.
Thursday, April 14, 2016 - 06:14
A U.S.-trained Iraqi crew working with a U.S.-supplied M1A1 Abrams tank now known as the "Beast" played a major role in taking and clearing the town of Hit in western Anbar province of ISIS fighters, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
Monday, April 11, 2016 - 06:59
The Pentagon awarded a USD17 million contract to Raytheon for supply of state of the art thermal weapon sights and spares which improve targeting and surveillance capabilities.
Monday, April 11, 2016 - 06:45
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the Republican party's senior foreign policy voices, said on Thursday he would likely support the sale of advanced military equipment including Boeing F-18 fighter jets to Qatar and Kuwait, despite Israel's concerns.
Monday, April 11, 2016 - 06:24
Egypt and Algeria have ordered President-S countermeasures suites from Russia’s KRET Enterprise, with Egypt expected to take delivery in the coming weeks.
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 06:15
Egypt and France plan to sign agreements for the purchase of weapons that include fighter aircraft, navy vessels and a military satellite communication system worth €1 billion (US $1.1 billion) during the forthcoming visit of French President Francois Hollande to Cairo.