• NATO inaugurated its first Tactical Air Base in the Western Balkans at a ceremony in Albania.
• Armenia and Greece decided to increase cooperation in the field of defense.
• The Ministry of Defense of the Maldives announced the signing of an agreement on cooperation in the military field with China.
• Qatar and the United States announced changes to the defense cooperation agreement they signed in the 90s.
• Baykar's Bayraktar TB2 UCAVs entered the inventory of the Albanian Army.
• China announced that it will increase its defense spending by 7.2 percent in 2024 compared to last year.
• An agreement on cooperation in the field of defense was signed between France and Moldova.
• The U.S. Army tested the GMLRS ER missile system, which is under development by Lockheed Martin.
• Poland received the first of two SAAB 340 Erieye airborne early warning and control aircraft under the contract signed with Sweden.
• Boeing has signed a contract with the US Navy for 17 P-8A Poseidon aircraft to be produced for Canada and Germany under the FMS program.
• Swedish defense company Saab received a large order from Poland immediately after announcing the start of construction of the Carl Gustav production facility in India.
• The US Department of Defense ordered an additional PrSM tactical ballistic missile system worth $220 million from Lockheed Martin.
• Rheinmetall will produce 300 million euros worth of multi-barrel rocket launcher ammunition for an unnamed NATO country in Europe.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky inspected the warships built under STM as a prime contractor.
• HAIDER, the main battle tank developed by the Chinese state-owned company NORINCO and the Pakistani state-owned company HIT, was unveiled for the first time.
• Indonesian Armed Forces received the first 10 Kaplan MT tanks in the joint project of PT Pindad and FNSS.
