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Urgent Delivery of Javelin Kits for VAB Armored Vehicle
2011-12-01 Read More...
Under an urgent operational requirement, on June 15 2011, the French defense procurement agency (DGA) ordered kits from Renault Trucks Defense for integrating the Javelin anti-tank missile system into the VAB armored personnel

Eurocopter Inaugurates New Logistics Platform
2011-11-29 Read More...
Eurocopter inaugurated, this past week, its new logistics platform at its industrial site in Marignane (France), marking the end to an innovative program to re-engineer the Group’s entire logistics chain and implement a flexible, high-performance

Thales & Cassidian Win IGN Contract
2011-11-28 Read More...
The French geographic Institute IGN (Institut Géographique National), acting as the contracting authority on behalf of the Direction Générale de l'Armement (DGA) of the French Ministry of

Defense Expenditure Top Priority For Poland
2011-11-24 Read More...
In his expose delivered this past Friday, the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, confirmed that defense expenditures are among top priorities for the Polish government for the next 4

Renault Trucks: 4th French Army Truck Support Contract
2011-11-21 Read More...
The SIMMT (Structure Intégrée du Maintien en condition opérationnelle des Matériels Terrestres - Integrated Through-Life Support Structure for Terrestrial Equipment) awarded Renault Trucks Defense the 4th batch of the heavy vehicle through-life

Nexter-Renault Trucks to Cooperate on VBMR Program
2011-11-10 Read More...
Nexter Systems and Renault Trucks Defense have signed a cooperation agreement to offer a unique solution to fulfill the request for proposal for the VBMR

Kärcher Inaugurates New Head Offices
2011-11-03 Read More...
After only twelve months of construction, in mid-October Kärcher Futuretech GmbH officially opened its new head offices, with a surface of 4,000 sq.m. in the Schwaikheim industrial estate, Germany. It has 150 office work places spread over five

France Starts Pull Out from Afghanistan
2011-10-25 Read More...
France started to pull out nearly 200 troops from Afghanistan this past

Alenia Aeronautica Inks C-27J Logistics Support Contract
2011-10-24 Read More...
Alenia Aeronautica has recently signed a contract with the Lithuanian Armed Forces worth about EUR 10 million to provide logistics support to the Lithuanian air force’s C-27J

Bumar Electronics Division Receives Award
2011-10-21 Read More...
Bumar Electronics Division received the SYMBOL OF POLISH INNOVATIONS 2011 this past

Rohde & Schwarz to Re-Equip Germany's DFS
2011-10-20 Read More...
In 2007 the European Commission committed the operators of aeronautical radio transmit and receive stations to introduce a new channel spacing for the airspace above FL195 (19,500

New Ballistic Protection for Police and Soldiers
2011-10-20 Read More...
Teijin Aramid introduced its latest unidirectional laminate fabric, Twaron® UD41 at the ongoing Milipol trade fair (Paris, 18-21 October

Sagem’s Infrared AASM Hammer SBU-64
2011-10-17 Read More...
In July, the French Air Force and Naval Aviation began operational deployment of the infrared terminal guidance version (SBU-64) of the Hammer IR AASM modular airto-ground

Rheinmetall Electro-Optics Premieres at DSEi 2011
2011-09-27 Read More...
Rheinmetall Defence has welded its electro-optical activities into a new division, known as Rheinmetall

KMW Wins MUNGO 2 Multi-Purpose Vehicles Order
2011-09-26 Read More...
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), Europe's market leader for highly protected wheeled and tracked vehicles, received an order from the German Army for the assembly and delivery of 31 further MUNGO 2 Multi-purpose vehicles for the Special Operations

Alenia Presents its New Recovery Plan
2011-09-20 Read More...
The Group presented this past week its new Recovery Plan at a meeting in Rome between the Senior Management of Finmeccanica’s aeronautics business (Alenia Aeronautica and Alenia Aermacchi) and the unions in the

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