The European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) awarded a contract to Airbus Defence and Space Airborne Solutions (ADAS), a subsidiary of Airbus Defence and, and its long-term partner Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to operate a Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) RPAS for Maritime Aerial Surveillance services.

The Swedish government intends to implement the largest increase in its budget in 70 years. The Defense Ministry has prepared a bill for which he intends to inject 79,000 million crowns (7,600 million euros) to its 2021-2025 budget. In total, this will represent a 40% increase in its military budget.

On October 14, 2020, a ceremony was held in Varna for the induction in the Bulgarian navy of two mine sweepers of the Tripartite type (Alkmaar type) built in the 1980s – M856 Maassluis and M859 Hellevoetsluis – which were previously operated by the Dutch navy.

The Secretaries of State for Defense of Germany, France and Spain have signed the addendum to the Implementation Agreement 2 of the integration of our country in Phase 1A of the NGWS / FCAS project.

UK; Army revives 'James Bond' style jet suites in field trials British Company Gravity Industries released a clip depicting its Jet Suit backpack deployed with a British army artillery unit to trial the concept of rapid service support on the battlefield using flying soldier. During this trial, Richard Browning equipped with its Jet Suit backpack has demonstrated that a flying soldier can fly over the battlefield and land on the roof of an AS90 155mm self-propelled artillery howitzer to provide rapid support or information.

The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) on 16 October notified Congress that the US State Department has approved an FMS package for Romania worth approximately $300 million, with Raytheon as prime contractor. The package includes unknown number of anti-ship Naval Strike Missile (NSM) systems, four mobile launcher vehicles designed and co-produced by Norwegian Kongsberg;  ten Link-16 Multifunctional Information Distribution System - Joint Tactical Radio Systems (MIDS-JTRS).

According to information published by Defence Web on October 16, 2020, Ghana has approved the purchase of 19 wheeled armored vehicles from the Israeli company Elbit Systems, valued $US86 millions.

A batch of ten BRDM-2 armored personnel carriers arrived in Central African Republic on Thursday.

US warns to intensify sanctions. Following the expiry of UN arms embargo against Iran, Tehran asserted  that United States is afraid of its potential for arms exports and hence threatening sanctions against countries that trade in arms with the Islamic republic. “Iran possesses more export potential rather than being a market for purchase [of arms],” Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told a press conference on Monday, reminding that 90 percent of the country’s defensive needs are being manufactured indigenously. “What they (the Americans) are afraid of is Iran’s comeback to the expansive armaments technology and export market,” he added. The remarks came a day after 13 years of prohibition on the Islamic Republic’s trade in conventional weapons ended in line with a provision included in the country’s 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers. Khatibzadeh called the development a “great victory for the resistance and the Iranian nation.” Iran’s defense minister says the country is going to support the countries that seek to defend their existence now that the UN Security Council’s restrictions on Tehran’s arms trade are lifted. Brigadier General Amir Hatami said Iran will sell arms to the countries despised by the Americans if they ask for it. Iran possesses expertise in attack and surveillance drones, upgrades of US fighter jets such as the F-5, helicopter repair, land army weapons and naval systems. In terms of domestic arms manufacturing ability, Iran is second only to Israel in the Middle East. Iran is already conducting negotiations with Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and several other countries in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa for weapons sales while it is conducting purchase negotiations with Russia. Iran is a potential customer for the Russian S-400 Air defence systems and the Su-30 fighter jets. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Sunday “The United States is prepared to use its domestic authorities to sanction any individual or entity that materially contributes to the supply, sale, or transfer of conventional arms to or from Iran."

The Slovenian MoD is reviewing to launch international tender to acquire battalion of new built armored personnel carriers.