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Raytheon заключила два контракта с вооружёнными силами США на общую сумму $1,3 млрд на производство ракет и поддержку систем вооружения, сообщило Министерство обороны в пятницу.
Оборонный подрядчик получил контракт на $745,4 млн на производство и сборку ракет Standard Missile-3 Block IIA для нужд правительства США и Министерства обороны Японии в рамках программы иностранных военных продаж. Агентство по противоракетной обороне в Хантсвилле, штат Алабама, заключило неконкурентный, предварительно неопределённый контракт, который предусматривает обязательства в размере $275,6 млн из средств на закупки в 2026 финансовом году и $277,7 млн из средств Министерства обороны Японии по программе иностранных военных продаж на момент заключения.

Against the backdrop of rising tensions in the Persian Gulf, the nuclear-armed state of Pakistan, NATO member Turkey, and Saudi Arabia have signed a defense agreement. Representatives of the three countries signed the relevant document on Friday, August 7, the Pakistani Foreign Office and Saudi state news agency SPA reported.

The Canadian government has selected the German company TKMS to build a new fleet of non-nuclear submarines. This was reported on Monday, July 6, citing sources, by the Canadian publication The Globe and Mail.
It is expected that the country’s prime minister, Mark Carney, will announce the government’s decision shortly, The Globe and Mail reports. The matter concerns a contract to build 12 submarines to patrol Canada’s maritime borders. For the multibillion-dollar contract, the shipbuilding company from Kiel, TKMS, competed with a South Korean shipyard, Hanwha Ocean.

Lockheed Martin Corp. (New York:LMT) snagged a contract modification worth $83.2 million from the US Department of Defense for producing additional missiles under the Army's Conventional Prompt Strike program, the agency reported.
The modification of the existing contract with the US Navy under the 'cost-plus-incentive-fee' scheme involves funding the procurement of ready-made munitions for the needs of the US Army. The work will be carried out by Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, under contract N00030-22-C-1025.

Shares of Japanese defense companies rose on Monday after the Yomiuri newspaper reported plans for the government to set up a new bureau within the Ministry of Defense to strengthen international defense cooperation and support exports of military equipment.
According to the outlet, the government and the ruling coalition have begun coordinating plans to establish a bureau that will handle international cooperation and engagement with allied and friendly countries. This comes as Japan seeks to strengthen its defense capabilities amid a deteriorating regional security situation.

Saab signed a contract with Poland’s Armaments Agency under the State Treasury on Monday to produce and deliver three A26 type submarines. The total order value is about SEK 47 billion ($4.83 billion) and includes weapons and training support packages.

US President Donald Trump ordered an investigation into leaks of information about Pentagon munitions stockpiles. This followed several weeks of media reports indicating that US military arsenals were being depleted during the conflict with Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing administration officials.

The United States and its allies held the largest naval exercises in history, “Rim of the Pacific,” demonstrating deepening military cooperation amid concerns over China’s and North Korea’s actions, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Five-week exercises known as Rimpac ended on Friday: 30 countries and about 30,000 servicemembers took part. Participants carried out more than 500 naval maneuvers and 2,400 air sorties.

Shares of Palantir Technologies (New York: PLTR) rose 1% during premarket on Friday after Bloomberg reported that a U.S. government agency had withdrawn a tender to modernize a military intelligence system—following a protest by the company.
The intelligence agency withdrew the tender on its own initiative, a representative for the agency said. The system in question is used to support military operations around the world, including for targeting guidance.

Thales (EPA:TCFP) reported second-quarter sales that broadly matched expectations, while high profitability in the aerospace and defense segments enabled the French electronics manufacturer for the aerospace and defense industries to beat analysts’ profit forecasts for the first half of the year.

The government of Poland secretly delivered interceptor missiles to Ukraine for American Patriot air defense systems in March, said Krzysztof Bosak, vice-speaker of Poland’s Sejm and a co-chair of the far-right and anti-Ukrainian Polish party “Confederation,” on the evening of Saturday, July 4. According to him, this concerns missiles that Warsaw purchased from the United States to build a multi-layered air defense system of its own, “but which still remains unfinished.”

Consultations between the leaders of NATO member countries as part of the Alliance summit held on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 7 and 8, in Turkish Ankara, were carried out with "an enormous sense of unity." This was stated by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at a press conference on the final day of the event.

A two-day NATO summit began in Ankara on Tuesday evening, July 7.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosted the heads of state and government of 32 NATO member countries at a celebratory dinner at the presidential palace. Leaders of the alliance’s partner countries—Ukraine, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand—were invited, along with representatives of the European Union.

The Netherlands no longer has the ability to provide Ukraine with direct military support. This was stated by the Dutch defense minister, Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, in an interview with Bloomberg, published on Tuesday, July 7.
"We - the Netherlands - no longer have any options because we have already done a great deal," Yeşilgöz-Zegerius said in Ankara, where the NATO summit is taking place.