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Top Stories From Global Defense Industry 15 – 21 January 2024

• The Philippines and Canada signed a memorandum of understanding on defense cooperation.

• RBSL, a joint venture company between Germany and the United Kingdom, won the tender for the production of armor systems for Challenger 3 tanks.

• Bulgaria will spend a total of 200 million euros on the modernization of the base, where the new F-16 fleet of 16 aircraft will be deployed.

• The Israeli cabinet approved the "war budget" for 2024, which includes an additional spending of $ 15 billion.

• Japan signed an agreement with the United States to purchase 400 Tomahawk missiles and related equipment.

• DSS celebrates its 10th anniversary at Damen's shipyard in Dubai.

• North Korea announced a flight test of a solid-fueled medium-range ballistic missile with a hypersonic warhead.

• The Brazilian navy has received the second of four Scorpène submarines ordered from the French company Naval Group.

• The British Armed Forces fired its DragonFire, a high-powered laser weapon, against air targets.

• The companies Rheinmetall, Diehl Defense and Hensoldt will develop a new short-range air defense system for the German armed forces.

• The US military announced the testing of a new seeker developed for the short-range ballistic missile to hit moving targets.

• North Korea announced that it had conducted a test on an underwater nuclear weapons system.

• The "SLIM" vehicle of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency succeeded in landing on the Moon.

• Northrop Grumman and Mitsubishi signed an agreement to develop a command and control system for Japan's air defense systems.

• Iran announced that the research satellite Soraya launched into space has been placed in orbit at a distance of 750 km.

• The United States delivered two new attack helicopters, Apaches, to the Royal Netherlands Air Force.

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