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France Launches Minehunting UUV Effort
2009-07-28 Read More...The Délégation Générale pour l'Armement (DGA), the French government's arms procurement office, has awarded a contract for an undisclosed amount to DCNS, ECA and Thales to study the use of unmanned underwater vehicles in mine countermeasures (MCM),
Rheinmetall to create simulation and test environment for the Bundeswehr
Up to 28 sites to be networked into a “system of systems”The Federal Agency for Information Management and Information Technology of the German Armed Forces (IT-AmtBw) has contracted with Rheinmetall Defence to create a simulation and test
The 9th annual Soldier Technology conference and exhibition
The 9th annual Soldier Technology conference and exhibition took place at the Olympia Conference Centre in London from June 30th – July 3rd, gathering together 556 senior military and industry figures from around the world in the biggest annual
EDA gives the go-ahead for new unmanned high-tech platform
The European Defence Agency (EDA) has given a green light to an ambitious development project under the leadership of Rheinmetall Defence of Düsseldorf, Germany. The EDA has contracted with Rheinmetall Defence and three other companies (Diehl BGT
Thales new generation IFF selected by Lockheed Martin
Thales announced that its new Medium to Long Range IFF interrogator has been selected by Lockheed Martin for integration with its TPS-79 Multi-Mission Tactical Air Surveillance Radar Systems. Under these contracts Thales will deliver 22 interrogator
Oto Melara: The industrial launching trials of the SPIKE missiles from the Medium Armoured Vehicle “Freccia” in Anti-tank version have been successfully performed.
On 26th May 2009, at the Capo Teulada firing range, Oto Melara, a Finmeccanica Company, and the Israeli Rafael, respectively designer and manufacturer of the 25mm HITFIST® PLUS turret integrated with the SPIKE kit the former, designer and supplier
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