Precision Kill Weapon News Today

The U.S. State Department gave a green light to a proposed $12 billion arms package for Poland that would include 96 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters in addition to equipment and ammunition.

The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency has notified Congress of a foreign military sale of precision kill weapon systems to the UK.

The US has approved the sale to the UK of APKWS-II guided rocket kits.

The $2.6 billion package includes $2.1 billion in new equipment and another $500 million in existing equipment.

Giwa Barracks, a compound featuring razor-wired walls, bland buildings and squalid conditions, has been the site of some of the Nigerian government's worst abuses in its 13-year war with extremists, according to current and former U.S. officials, human rights groups and former detainees. In many ways, Giwa crystallises the failures of the international community, time and again, to hold Nigeria's military to account for its wartime abuses of civilians, including women and children.

Many former military and public officials appearing in the news have more than a patriotic interest in a continued occupation.