Airbus has announced on 21 January that the Ministry of Defense of Ivory Coast has signed a firm order for one C295 medium transport aircraft. The aircraft, in transport configuration, will enhance the capabilities of the Ivory Coast Air Force with its proven record of excellent performance in hot and harsh conditions, and affordable maintenance and operational costs. Bernhard Brenner, Airbus […]

Cote d’Ivoire has displayed several recently acquired Belarus-made Cayman armored vehicles for its Gendarmerie and Armored Forces in a parade to mark the 58th anniversary of independence from France on August 7, in Abidjan. Cote d’Ivoire’s unveiled it’s previously unseen Cayman armored vehicles during a military parade. Several armored vehicles were transferred to the Gendarmerie and the rest […]

France’s NEXTER Group is offering its TITUS 6×6 multirole armoured vehicles to the Cote d’Ivoire as that country looks for a replacement for its ageing armored vehicles. Some 30 soldiers from the first armoured batallion, from the National Gendarmerie intervention unit, from the armoured squadron group of the National Gendarmerie and the special forces were trained by Nexter […]