U.S. President Obama has cleared the military to use armed Predator drones over Libya. The first mission was supposed to be flown on Thursday but canceled due to bad weather.
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Bulgaria to spend $1.5 billion on military modernization, half goes to new fighters
Bulgaria has announced plans to modernized its military by 2020 using $1.5 billion to buy new equipment. Half of those money will be used for new fighter jets.
NATO says its not running out of munitions for Libyan ops
Adm. Giampaolo Di Paola, the chairman of NATO’s military committee, has refuted media reports that stocks of precision guided munitions are running low.
USSOCOM orders more Puma UAS
AeroVironment announced that it has received a firm-fixed-price contract delivery order from the U.S. Special Operations Command for new digital Puma‚ All Environment (AE) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), initial spares packages and training services on Apr. 11.
Ukraine adopts ATGM with limited anti-air capability
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that it has adopted the Stugna-P anti-tank missile. The laser-guided missile is also capable of hitting low flying, slow aircraft like helicopters.