DefenceTalk35mm ammunition for Gepard anti-aircraft tank shipped to Ukraine 300,000 rounds ordered; production now relocated to Germany Elaborate postdevelopment process New production facility in Unterluss to provide a secure supply of ammunition for the Gepard Rheinmetall experts in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy contributed to the project’s success A first shipment of new ammunition for the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/first-shipment-of-new-gepard-ammunition-now-on-its-way-to-ukraine-80081/

DefenceTalkJoe Biden has promised to help Ukraine get air defense systems with a longer range than the shoulder-borne Stinger missiles already on the ground, but finding the powerful anti-missile batteries Ukraine’s military so urgently needs is proving easier said than done. The US president, who wants to support Ukraine militarily without entering into direct conflict […]https://www.defencetalk.com/boosting-ukraines-anti-air-batteries-proves-easier-said-than-done-78467/

DefenceTalkMOSCOW: First supplies of S-400 Triumph long-range anti-aircraft missile systems to China are planned no earlier than in a year or a year-and-a-half, a source from the Russian system of military-technical cooperation told Tass on Thursday. “Supplies are planned no earlier than in a year, or more likely, in a year-and-a-half,” the source said. The […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-to-receive-first-s-400-systems-in-2016-65827/

DefenceTalkThe head of Russia’s air force said Thursday the military has sent anti-aircraft missiles to Syria in order to protect the Russian planes that have been conducting airstrikes there since the end of September. Col. Gen. Viktor Bondarev said in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper that the Russian jets were at risk of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-sends-missiles-to-syria-to-protect-its-fighter-jets-65772/

DefenceTalkThe Russian military is putting the finishing touches to its very own heavy military UAV. The drone is part of a wider modernization effort, with the cutting-edge flagship S500 missile system coming in 2017. The drone “already exists,” according to Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yury Borisov. The heavy UAV, created in cooperation with the Federal […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-develops-heavy-drone-promises-s500-missile-system-by-2017-62226/

DefenceTalkOn Thursday, when a Malaysian Airlines plane was apparently shot down over Ukraine, a Ukrainian Buk anti-aircraft missile battery was operational in the region, the Russian Defense Ministry said, contradicting Kiev’s statements. The battery was deployed at a site from which it could have fired a missile at the airliner, the ministry said in a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/ukrainian-buk-battery-radar-was-operational-when-malaysian-plane-downed-60196/

DefenceTalkBrazil’s Defense Ministry intends to discuss purchasing air defense systems from Russia during talks with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev later this month, the ministry said on Sunday. “We are interested in acquiring three batteries of Pantsir-S1 missiles and two batteries of Igla missiles,” General Jose Carlos De Nardi, head of the Joint Chiefs of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/brazil-wants-to-buy-russian-anti-aircraft-weaponry-46659/