On the sidelines of the Eurosatory exhibition, Moroccan and French Defense officials met Wednesday in Paris. Objective: to strengthen their weapons cooperation before a decisive summit planned for mid-summer.
The Royal Armed Forces are awaiting the delivery of a second unit of Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian combat helicopters . This deployment is part of a comprehensive modernization strategy aimed at equipping the Kingdom with state-of-the-art air capabilities.
Morocco has made qualitative leaps this year in the field of the defense industry, said Abdelatif Loudiyi, the delegated minister in charge of National Defense, recalling the kingdom’s objective to reduce its imports of weapons and ammunition.
The Moroccan Royal Gendarmerie has intensified its efforts to fight crime over the first nine months of 2024, achieving significant results. Thanks to the modernization of its equipment, particularly with the acquisition of new radars and drones, more than two million traffic offenses have been recorded.
5.8 billion dirhams. This is the budget that Morocco has planned in the 2025 finance bill to strengthen the surveillance of its borders with Algeria. These funds will be used to acquire weapons and ammunition and to build infrastructure to secure the border areas of the kingdom.
Morocco is going all out on its defense. The general budget of the National Defense Administration for 2025 has seen a significant increase, as revealed by Abdelatif Loudiyi, the delegate minister in charge of national defense administration, before the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
The Moroccan government has decided to give a significant boost to its defense industry. At its meeting on Thursday, November 14, the Council of Government approved the temporary exemption from corporate income tax (IS) for companies in the sector.
As part of the reinstatement of compulsory military service , the government has mobilized significant financial resources. Thus, the 37th intake recruited this year cost the State a little less than one billion dirhams.
Morocco is mobilizing significant material and human resources to control and monitor its land borders, which are 3,300 km long, and maritime borders, which stretch over a distance of 3,500 km, in addition to airspace.
On an official visit to Morocco from October 18 to 19, the Chief of Staff of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces, Major General Hamad Mohammed Thani Al Rumaithi, met with several senior Moroccan army officials, including the Delegate Minister in charge of the National Defense Administration (NDA), Abdellatif Loudiyi.
Army General James C. McConville, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, began a journey that led him on Monday to two senior Moroccan military officials.
Abdellatif Loudiyi , Moroccan Minister Delegate to the Head of Government, in charge of the Defense Administration, discussed the reasons for the increase in the 2021 defense budget.