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Why Does Algeria Want to Buy fifth-generation fighters?

Over the past few days, several media sources have been circulating rumors about Algeria signing a contract worth $2 billion to buy from Russia 14 fifth-generation fighters. Up to the moment of writing this, all these reports remain to be rumors. Nothing has been confirmed from either the Russian or Algerian sides. Follow New Defence Order.…
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Tunisia & US Sign “Roadmap for Defence Cooperation”

As part of his North Africa tour, US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper met with Tunisian President Kais Saied, and the Tunisian Minister of Defence Ibrahim Bartagi. Terrorism, regional stability, and the sovereignty of African countries were top items on the agenda of those meetings. Follow New Defence Order. Strategy on Google News. The US Defence Secretary…
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UAE to Launch a Navigation Satellite in 2021

The United Arab Emirates will launch a navigation satellite next year aimed at demonstrating the country’s technological capabilities, a top official told Emirates News Agency, WAM. Follow New Defence Order. Strategy on Google News. "The first satellite will be launched in 2021 and the second – a technologically enhanced one – the following year," said Dr. Khaled…
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Arab Group for Space Cooperation

Fourteen Arab States are to sign the charter that establishes the Arab Group for Space Cooperation. Saudi Arabia already signed the charter on 15 June. Follow New Defence Order. Strategy on Google News. This initiative, which was launched by the UAE and is currently chaired by the UAE Space Agency, aims to provide an ecosystem to develop…
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An Overview of Russia-Algeria Military Cooperation

SIPRI's latest report on trends in international arms transfers in 2019 states that Algeria was the third on the list Russia's top arms clients between 2015-2019. The North African country is only the second after Egypt in military power in Africa. In 2015–19 Russia delivered major arms to 47 states. A total of 55 per…
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Unmanned Vehicles Against the Coronavirus

          On the last day of 2019, Chinese authorities reported several cases of some “unusual pneumonia” in the city of Wuhan because of some unknown virus. The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) hit the entire world calling governments for immediate and very strict measures to control the spread of the pandemic. One of…
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Aviation. MTC Between Russia And Algeria

Algerian Air Force has a pressing need for upgrading its aircraft in service. After almost a fifteen-years embargo (1990–2005) Algerian AF has started an extensive modernization program. This process was initiated after an official visit of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin to Algeria in 2007 and conversion of Algerian debt to the Russian Federation…
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Russia in the African Arms Market

2015 was the year of Russia's strong return to Africa, after which Moscow concluded more than 20 agreements with African countries in the military field with a total value of $50 billion. Russia controls 35% of the African arms market, thus heading the list of the biggest arms exporters to the region according to Stockholm…
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Defence spending on the up in the middle east

Dubai Airshow To Host Defence Delegations and Exhibitors Dubai, UAE. 17 February 2019: The Middle East is cited by Deloitte as one of the key regions that are expected to contribute to industry performance in the near term, in its 2019 global aerospace and defence industry outlook. It states that defence spending in the region…
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Algeria as Export Show-case for Russian Air Defence Systems

By Akram Kharief  Relationship between Algeria and the USSR started even before Algeria got independence. In 1959, when the war of independence was in its pride, Moscow made decision and trained some hundreds of young officers of the National Liberation Army. Other officers, at the same time, have been trained in military educational institutions of…
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