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5 Alternatives to Patriot for MENA
Patriot remains the most widely fielded air defence system in the Gulf, but procurement offices are weighing five alternatives on cost, delivery and industrial terms....
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5 Alternatives to Patriot for MENA
Patriot remains the most widely fielded air defence system in the Gulf, but procurement offices are weighing five alternatives on cost, delivery and industrial terms. THAAD, SAMP/T NG, KM-SAM Cheongung...
Cameroon Fights to Reclaim Its Flag From Russia’s Shadow Fleet
Cameroon has deregistered dozens of tankers and frozen new ship registrations after investigators traced nearly 100 vessels flying its flag to Russia's sanctions-busting shadow fleet. The scandal has drawn EU...
Morocco Signs Contract for 10 Airbus H225M Caracal Helicopters
Morocco has finalised a contract with Airbus Helicopters for 10 H225M Caracal helicopters, replacing its ageing Puma fleet and deepening a French-Moroccan defence relationship that also includes a pending Scorpène...
Turkey’s MKE Launches Zafer, Its First African Subsidiary, in Egypt
Turkish state manufacturer MKE has registered Zafer, a fully Egyptian-owned subsidiary, positioning Egypt as a production and export base for turrets, ammunition and short-range air defence rather than just a...
Egypt Submits RFP to Dassault for 24 More Rafales, Fleet Set to Reach 78
Egypt has submitted a Request for Proposal to Dassault Aviation for 24 additional Rafale fighters, which would take the Egyptian Air Force's Rafale fleet to 78 jets — the largest...
Evolution of the UAE’s Integrated Air and Missile Defence
From the 1989 fielding of the MIM-23B Improved HAWK to the PAC-3 MSE interceptors notified to Congress in December 2024, the UAE has built a four-tier, multi-supplier air and missile...
Wing Loong II operators now span the Gulf, Pakistan and a growing group of African...
The Nigeria AH-1Z Viper programme covers 12 Bell attack helicopters for the Nigerian Air Force,...
Beyond the 45 utility vehicles Ghana's army took delivery of last month, new details show...
Morocco's aerospace sector has grown from five companies in 2000 to roughly 160 today, and...
Only two African states have a ballistic missile capability that is both documented by independent...
Mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles have become a backbone of counter-insurgency and peace-support operations across Africa,...
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The largest armies in Africa are led by Ethiopia and Egypt, with Morocco, Eritrea and...