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Equipment type: Infantry Fighting Vehicle 

Manufacturer: Projekt System & Management 

Location: Germany 

Operators: Germany 

Programme value: ~$5.5bn to date 

The Puma armoured infantry fighting vehicle (AIFV) is a tracked vehicle manufactured by Projekt System & Management (PSM), a joint venture of German defence companies Rheinmetall Landsysteme and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann. The prototype vehicle and was rolled out in December 2005 and delivered in May 2006. The Bundeswehr plans to operates a fleet of around 400 Puma IFVs.

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Equipment type: Fleet Support Ship

Manufacturer: Hindustan Shipyard Limited 

Location: India 

Operators: India 

Programme value: $2.3bn 

The Fleet Support Ships are being developed for the Indian Navy by Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL), and the first of their kind being constructed in India. The steel-cutting ceremony for the first FSS was held at HSL’s shipyard in Visakhapatnam in April 2024. Scheduled for delivery to the Indian Navy starting in the middle of 2027, the FSS vessels will improve the strategic reach of the fleet.

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Equipment type: Uncrewed combat aircraft 

Manufacturer: Baykar Technologies 

Location: Turkey 

Operators: Turkey 

Programme value: ~$1bn

Bayraktar Kizilelma is a fighter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed to conduct take-off and landing operations on short-runway aircraft carriers and to carry out missions using internally carried munitions. 

the fighter UAV will be able to operate from short-runway aircraft carriers such as the Anadolu, Turkey's landing helicopter dock (LHD)-type amphibious assault ship.