Nigeria to receive APKWS The Nigerian Air Force will receive the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS), the US Department of Defense (DoD) confirmed in a 6 February contract announcement. The USD225 million contract awarded to BAE Systems covers APK-WSs for all four branches of the US military, as well as the governments of the Netherlands and Nigeria. The APKWS upgrades 70 mm air-to-surface rockets into semi-active laser-guided missiles. In August 2017 the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) listed the APKWS and GBU-58 Paveway Ⅱ guided bomb as weapon options for the 12 Embraer EMB 314/A-29 Super Tucano light strike aircraft requested by Nigeria.
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