Contracts

Patria AMV 8x8 vehicle and Patria Nemo mortar system agreements with Slovenia

The Slovenian Ministry of Defence has signed agreements with Rotis and Patria covering 135 Patria AMV 8x8 vehicles as well as Patria Nemo 120 mm single-barrel mortars to the Slovenian Army.

Future Technologies

Star-P uses Supercomputers in Support of Futuristic Military Vehicles

Interactive Supercomputing Inc.'s (ISC) Star-P software will help the U.S. Army and vehicle designers to evaluate the performance and reliability of next-generation military vehicles using supercomputers to dramatically accelerate simulation of the vehicles' operations.

Defence Industry

DRS Awarded $145m Contract to Produce Driver Vision Enhancer A-kits for U.S. Army Vehicles

DRS Technologies, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a new multi-year contract valued at approximately $145 million, including options, to produce Driver Vision Enhancer (DVE) A-Kits for installation on a wide range of frontline U.S. Army tactical wheeled and combat vehicles.

Defence Industry

Trials of the Garant System Installed in the T-55AGM Battle Tank

The State-owned Enterprise Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau (Ukraine) carried out successful trials of the countermeasure system intended for suppressing radio-controlled explosive devices. The system had been developed by the Microtech Base Center for Critical Technologies (Ukraine) and is called Garant. When installed in a battle tank, it enables the vehicle crew to neutralize the radio-based control system of mines and other explosive devices by means of setting radio interference.

Defence Industry

UK Armed Forces get new live-firing target service

The MoD has signed a contract with Qinetiq to supply high tech military target system for the next 20-years.

Defence Industry

UK Defence Industrial Strategy - One Year on

Defence Minister, Lord Drayson, marked the successful first year of the Defence Industrial Strategy with key UK industrialists at an event in the City of London.

Defence Industry

Rheinmetall to supply Bundeswehr with Wiesel 2 armoured field ambulances

Germany's Federal Agency for Defence Technology and Procurement (BWB) in Koblenz has contracted with Rheinmetall to supply the Bundeswehr with a second lot of Wiesel 13 tracked armoured vehicles configured as field ambulances.

Term of the day

Road Wheels

The wheels bearing the weight of a land vehicle onto the ground or its own tracks.

Defence Industry

Norwegian Armed Forces exercise contract option for Smiths Detection chemical agent detectors

Watford, UK -- Smiths Detection, part of the global technology business Smiths Group, has been awarded a pound2.2 million contract to supply Lightweight Chemical Detectors (LCD) to the Norwegian Armed Forces.

Defence Industry

Patria Weapon Systems Oy’s component manufacturing transfers to Komas Oy

Patria Weapon Systems Oy and Komas Oy have signed a contract concerning transfer of Patria Weapon Systems Oy’s component manufacturing in Vammala, Finland to Komas Oy as of 16 December, 2006.

Defence Industry

SAF to Get Refurbished Leopard Tanks

Singapore’s refurbished Leopard 2s will replace the AMX-13 SM-1 light tanks currently in service. The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) will acquire 66 refurbished Leopard 2A4 tanks from the German Federal Ministry of Defence.

Contracts

German parliament decides to procure 272 BOXER vehicles

Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) welcomes the decision of the German parliament (Bundestag) in Berlin to procure 272 highly protected BOXER vehicles.

Defence Industry

BAE Systems and Army Depot Sign Product Support Partnership

BAE Systems and the Tobyhanna Army Depot signed a partnership agreement to better provide the Army with cost-effective weapon systems, support, and rapid product improvements.

Contracts

Oshkosh Truck Acquires JLG Industries to Create $6 Billion Specialty Vehicle Company

Oshkosh Truck Corporation, a leading manufacturer of specialty vehicles and vehicle bodies, announced that it has completed the acquisition of JLG Industries, Inc. (JLG) for $28 per share in an all cash transaction valued at approximately $3.2 billion.

Contracts

DRS Awarded $22 Million Contract by The U.S. Army for Heavy Ammunition Trailers

DRS Technologies, Inc. announced that it has received a $22 million order to build more than 300 M989A1 Heavy Expanded Mobility Ammunition Trailers (HEMATs).