The U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale of Patriot missiles to Kuwait with an estimated cost of $800 million, a Defense Security Cooperation Agency said on Thursday. The prime contractor for the sale of up to 84 Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancements (MSEs) and related equipment is Lockheed Martin Corporation, the […]

The Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) has announced that the U.S. State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Kuwait for nineteen M88A2 HERCULES recovery vehicles and related equipment and support for an estimated cost of $281 million. The Hercules, an acronym standing for Heavy Equipment Recovery Combat Utility […]

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, was awarded a modification to a previously awarded contract from the U.S. Navy for procurement of 66 M61A2 20mm Gatling gun systems. The modification, from U.S. Naval Air Systems Command and announced on Wednesday, is valued at more than $20 million and covers the […]

The U.S. Marine Corps has deployed AV/8B Harrier short takeoff, vertical landing strike aircraft, Airmen, and associated equipment to Kuwait, from the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma. The Harrier, based on the British-designed Hawker-Siddley Kestrel, entered service in the Marine Corps in the 1980s. Its twin intake Rolls Royce engine produces more than 23,000 pounds […]

The Boxer Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) with 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) completed a two-week training exercise aboard multiple U.S. military installations in Kuwait, Aug. 9. According to a statement released by the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, the exercise enabled the 11th MEU to train together as a Marine Air-Ground Task Force for the first […]

U.S. defense contractor Raytheon is awarded the contract to procure LAU-115 and LAU-116 guided missile launchers. The contract, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is worth more than $47,3 million and covers procure of 99 LAU-115 and 100 LAU-116 guided missile launchers for the Navy as well as 62 LAU-115 and 68 LAU-116 guided […]

Kuwait is set to receive several thousand general purpose bombs from the USA, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced on 2 August.  According to the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the US State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Kuwait of various Mk- series munitions for an estimated cost of $40.4 […]

On 27 June 2018, Boeing has won a foreign military sales contract to supply 22 F/A-18E and six F/A-18F Super Hornets to the Kuwait Air Force, the US Department of Defense’s (DoD) announced. According to DoD, the Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, is awarded a $1,504,995,240 fixed-price-incentive-firm contract that provides for the production and delivery of 22 […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko held talks with First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense of the State of Kuwait Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on 19 March. The parties noted the availability of all necessary prerequisites for the successful implementation of joint projects in the field of military-technical cooperation. Further bilateral measures have been agreed […]

The Mi-171 multi-purpose helicopter of  Bangladesh Army crashed in northeastern Bangladesh. The Russia-made Mil Mi-171 multi-purpose helicopter of  Bangladesh Army with the chief of general staff of Kuwait Armed Forces Lt Gen Mohammad Khaled Al Khadher & delegation on board crashed in Sylhet (a metropolitan city in northeastern Bangladesh). As a result of the helicopter crash, there […]