Two US senators have urged the Department of Defense to review the Reciprocal Defense Procurement (RDP) agreements it signed with 28 partner countries, due to concerns that those agreements could be hindering the growth of the US domestic industrial base.
Norwegian supplier of tactical broadband data links Radionor Communications AS will open a representative facility and possibly an R&D facility in Ukraine. Separately, Ukraine signed an agreement with US firm D&M Holding Company for the production of gunpowder and a memorandum of cooperation with the Federation of Italian Companies for Aerospace, Defence and Security.
French-American aerospace company CYGR and India’s RRP Defence, through its dedicated entity Vimananu have signed a letter of intent to establish a joint venture for drone manufacturing in India.
The UAE’s EDGE Group and Hungary’s 4iG Space and Defence Technologies signed three MoUs on 17 July, each focused on a distinct technology domain. The agreements cover the joint development, localisation, and market integration of several defence systems.
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has signed an agreement with Airbus to accelerate the export of the Hürjet advanced jet trainer to Spain. TAI also signed an agreement with GE Aerospace on 23 July related to the latter’s F404 engines, and for future collaboration on TAI’s Hürjet programme.
On 10 July, Peru’s Vice Minister of Defense Resources, Adolfo Herrera Orlandini, announced the progress of two Peruvian offset projects by Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles Österreich and Norinco.