[JLRC]

Transfer to Spain of Full Ownership of 108 Leopard Tanks
 
 
(Source: Spanish Government Cabinet; issued Sept. 2, 2005)

(Issued in Spanish only; unofficial translation by defense-aerospace.com)
 
 
 The Council of Ministers has approved a Memorandum of Understanding between the Spanish Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Defense of the Federal Republic of Germany for the transfer to Spain of full ownership of 108 Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks currently in service with Spanish Army units.  
 
On June 6, during the meeting in Germany between the Spanish and German Ministers of Defence, it was agreed that both parties would make the necessary efforts to resolve, by the end of the summer, issues that were pending since 1995 about the transfer of the 108 Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks.  
 
It also was agreed that full property rights of the 108 tanks and their related equipment, including training material and communications equipment, would be transferred to Spain.  
 
A total price of 16.2 million euros has been agreed for the 108 tanks, to be paid by June 2016 with no interest charges. When payment is completed, full ownership of the tanks will be transferred to Spain with no additional cost. Monies paid by Spain since 2001 on this account will be deducted from the total price.  
 
In this way, the acquisition cost of equipment related to the tanks will be reduced to 1.8 million euros, after deduction of payments made between 2001 and 2004.  
 
The remaining balance of 15.1 million euros will be paid between 2005 and 2016.  
 
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[Cody]

Asi es,esos 108 leopard ya son 100% de España.

[typhonman]

Parabens :lol:

[JLRC]

Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) System Conducts Successful Test  
 
 
(Source: US Missile Defense Agency; issued Sept. 8, 2005)
 
 
 The U.S Army and the Missile Defense Agency announced today it has completed a successful intercept test flight of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile defense system at White Sands Missile Range, N.M.  
 
The test involved an engagement using two PAC-3 missiles against a short-range ballistic missile target. Preliminary test data indicates the first missile successfully intercepted its target and mission objectives were achieved.  
 
Objectives of this mission included demonstrating the performance of PAC-3 missile software changes and associated ground system software improvements. The test demonstrated the system's capability to detect, track, engage and intercept the target missile, Patriot-as-a-Target (PAAT), a Patriot legacy missile modified to represent a short-range aerodynamic ballistic missile target.  
 
Soldiers of the 1-7th Air Defense Artillery, Fort Bliss, Texas, participated in today's test.  
 
The PAC-3 system successfully completed operational testing and began fielding in 2002. It was first used in combat during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.  
 
The PAC-3 Missile is a high-velocity, hit-to-kill interceptor missile, and is the newest addition to the Patriot family of missiles. It provides increased capability against advanced tactical ballistic missiles, and other air-breathing threats, such as aircraft and cruise missiles.  
 
The Patriot PAC-3 program is managed by the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Missiles and Space and executed by the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Project Office in Huntsville, Ala. (ends)  
 
 
 
 Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 Missile Successfully Destroys Tactical Ballistic Missile in Test
 
 
(Source: Lockheed Martin; issued Sept. 8, 2005)
 
 
 DALLAS --- Lockheed Martin's Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile successfully intercepted and destroyed an incoming tactical ballistic missile (TBM) today during a flight test at White Sands Missile Range, NM. The battle-proven PAC-3 Missile is the world's only fielded hit-to-kill, kinetic energy air defense missile.  
 
During the flight test, designated Task 2-2, two PAC-3 Missiles were "ripple-fired" at an incoming Patriot-As-A-Target TBM, a legacy Patriot missile modified to represent a short-range TBM. Preliminary data indicates the TBM was destroyed and all test objectives were achieved.  
 
"Today's test demonstrated software improvements in the PAC-3 Missile Segment and associated ground systems," said Richard McDaniel, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control's director of PAC-3 programs. "We also demonstrated the system's capability to detect, track, engage and intercept a threat- representative short-range TBM. No other air defense missile fielded today can protect our Soldiers like PAC-3."  
 
Patriot warfighters from units at Fort Bliss, TX, participated in today's mission. This test follows three successful PAC-3 Missile tests conducted in 2004. An additional PAC-3 test is scheduled for 2005.  
 
"We continue to mature our system's capability to pace the evolving threat," said Col. John Vaughn, Lower Tier Air & Missile Defense project manager. "Today's success helped validate several key enhancements we will provide to the warfighter to more effectively defeat these threats."  
 
Lockheed Martin is the only provider of proven hit-to-kill air defense systems capable of defeating threats potentially carrying biological, chemical and nuclear payloads. The PAC-3 Missile, Terminal High Altitude Air Defense System (THAAD) and the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS), which utilizes the PAC-3 as the primary interceptor, are elements of the terminal defense layer of the National Ballistic Missile Defense System.  
 
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control is prime contractor on the PAC-3 Missile Segment upgrade to the Patriot air defense system. The PAC-3 Missile Segment upgrade consists of the PAC-3 Missile, a highly agile hit-to-kill interceptor, the PAC-3 Missile canisters (in four packs), a Fire Solution Computer and an Enhanced Launcher Electronics System.  
 
The hit-to-kill PAC-3 Missile is the most advanced, capable and powerful theater air defense missile. It defeats the entire threat to the Patriot Air Defense System: TBMs carrying weapons of mass destruction, advanced cruise missiles and aircraft.  
 
The PAC-3 Missile has been selected as the primary interceptor for the multi-national MEADS program. Managed by the NATO MEADS Management Agency (NAMEADSMA), MEADS is a model transatlantic development program focused on the next generation of air and missile defense. MEADS will focus on risk reduction, application of key technologies and validation of a system design incorporating the PAC-3 Missile as the prime interceptor.  
 
The Patriot PAC-3 program is managed by the U.S. Army and executed by the Army Program Executive Office, Air, Space and Missile Defense and the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Project Office in Huntsville, AL.  
 
Lockheed Martin is a world leader in systems integration and the development of air and missile defense systems and technologies, including the first operational hit-to-kill missile defense system. It also has considerable experience in missile design and production, infrared seekers, command and control/battle management, and communications, precision pointing and tracking optics, as well as radar and signal processing. The company makes significant contributions to all major U.S. missile defense systems and participates in several global missile defense partnerships.  
 
 
Headquartered in Bethesda, MD, Lockheed Martin employs about 130,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems, products and services.  
 
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[fealcap]

En Aleman

Griechenland kauft Kampfpanzer LEOPARD 2

Vertreter der griechischen Regierung haben gestern in Berlin einen Vertrag über den Kauf von 183 gebrauchten Kampfpanzern vom Typ LEOPARD 2 A4 und 150 LEOPARD 1 A5 aus den Beständen der Bundeswehr unterzeichnet. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine Vereinbarung zwischen der deutschen und griechischen Regierung, bei dem Europas Marktführer für gepanzerte Rad- und Kettenfahrzeuge, Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, mit einem substantiellen Arbeitsanteil beteiligt ist.

"Die Entscheidung der griechischen Regierung über den Kauf weiterer LEOPARD-Panzer unterstreicht abermals die unangefochtene Spitzenstellung, die dieses Produkt von Krauss-Maffei Wegmann auf dem internationalen Markt einnimmt.“, so Frank Haun, Geschäftsführer und stellvertretender Vorsitzender von KMW.

Krauss-Maffei Wegmann wird mit der Instandsetzung und technischen Anpassung des Kampfpanzers LEOPARD 2 A4, sowie der Lieferung von Sonderwerkzeugen mit einem Auftragsvolumen von rund 150 Millionen Euro an diesem Regierungs-geschäft beteiligt sein. Darüber hinaus stellt KMW die Instandsetzungsfähigkeiten für den LEOPARD 2 A4 in Griechenland ab dem Jahr 2006 sicher.

Krauss-Maffei Wegmann
Die Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co.KG ist Marktführer in Europa für gepanzerte Rad- und Kettenfahrzeuge. Mit rund 2.500 Beschäftigten und einer umfassenden Systemkompetenz entwickelt, fertigt und betreut KMW als führender Systemhersteller ein Produktportfolio, das von luftverladbaren und minengeschützten Radfahrzeugen (Mungo und Dingo), über die Aufklärungs-, Flugabwehr- und Artilleriesysteme (Fennek, Panzerhaubitze 2000) bis hin zu schweren Kampfpanzern (Leopard 1 und 2) und Schützenpanzern (Puma) reicht. Auf die Einsatzsysteme von KMW verlassen sich weltweit die Streitkräfte von 25 Nationen.

http://kmweg.websolution21.de/pressenew ... .php?id=29

En Frances

Grèce
Une représentation du gouvernement Grecque à signé à Berlin un contrat pour l'achat de 183 Leopard 2A4 et de 150 Leopard 1A5.

A Berlin le 03 août 2005, une représentation du gouvernement grecque a signé un contrat pour l'achat de 183 Leopard 2A4 et 150 Leopard 1A5 de seconde main qui proviennent de la réserve de l'armée allemande. Le contrat entre l'Allemagne et la Grèce implique un contrat de travail global pour la firme Krauss-Maffei Wegmann qui est le lader sur le marché Européen pour les véhicules blindés et véhicules chenillés. Krauss-Maffei Wegmann aura un partage de plus ou moins 150 millions d'Euro dans cette transaction gouvernementale pour l'entretien et les modifications techniques du Leopard 2A4 et l'approvisionnement d'outils spéciaux. En complément, KMW devra fournir des capacités de réparation pour le Leopard 2A4 en Grèce durant l'année 2006.

 http://www.armyrecognition.com/News/200 ... 005_FR.htm

 
Saludos

[3520]

percebe-se tudo,..  

[Benny]

"Instandsetzungsfähigkeiten"??!! Mas que palavrão é este?

[emarques]

A minha ignorância parece discernir qualquer coisa sobre 183 Leo2 A4 e 150 Leo 1 A5 e o exército grego. O quê, exactamente, não sei.

[fealcap]

Pues dice que los Griegos han adquirido eso 183 Leopard 2A4 y 150 Leopard 1A5.
Aparte hay que sumarles  170 Leopard 2 HEL (GR) que son Leopard 2A6EX y a los 160 Leopard 1V, 104 Leopard 1GR, 269 Leopard 1A5 que ya disponía.

http://skopia.digitalrice.com/eksoplismoi/leopard3.asp

Un saludo

[JLRC]

Spanish Army Awards General Dynamics Santa Barbara Sistemas Euro 181 Million Contract for Howitzers
 
 
(Source: General Dynamics; issued Oct. 24, 2005)
 
 
 MADRID, Spain --- General Dynamics Santa Barbara Sistemas has signed an eight-year, euro 181 million (US $216.2 million) contract to supply the Spanish Army with a total of 70 155/52 APU SBT howitzers. General Dynamics Santa Barbara Sistemas is a subsidiary of General Dynamics.  
 
The contract includes the acquisition of four of the current 155/52 APU SBT (V07) howitzers, and design, development, production and delivery of 66 units of a new version of the howitzer (named SIAC) with improved mobility and new capabilities, including C2 integration. The contract also includes retrofit of 12 Army APU SBT howitzers from the V06 to the V07 version; 82 towing vehicles and radio communication sets; and integrated logistical support.  
 
Subcontractors on the program include Amper (Madrid, Spain) for communications equipment and Iveco (Turin, Italy) for vehicles.  
 
The APU SBT is a 155mm, 52 caliber towed/self-propelled howitzer developed by General Dynamics Santa Barbara Sistemas; it provides substantial benefits thanks to a high rate of fire, high survivability, digital navigation and automatic laying system, low maintenance, and a reduced crew requirement. The Spanish Army has four 155/52 APU SBT (V06) howitzers already in service for field artillery and eight APU SBT (V07) howitzers integrated in a Coastal Artillery Group.  
 
 
General Dynamics Santa Barbara Sistemas, part of the General Dynamic European Land Combat Systems unit, employs approximately 2,300 people in nine facilities in Spain and Germany. It is the Spanish Army's main supplier of combat vehicles and ammunition. The company has production contracts for the Spanish Leopard tank and the Pizarro Infantry Fighting, in addition to other systems, and its products are marketed in 47 countries.  
 
General Dynamics, headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, employs approximately 71,900 people worldwide and had 2004 revenue of $19.2 billion. The company is a market leader in mission-critical information systems and technologies; land and expeditionary combat systems, armaments and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and business aviation.  
 
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[Cody]

Imágenes de la Brunete.Bonitas eh?

[Cabeça de Martelo]

Bem...Parece que os Pizarros nunca mais acabavam!

[TOMKAT]

[TOMKAT]

[Marauder]

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[Jane's Defence Industry - first posted to http://jdin.janes.com - 23 January 2006]

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[Jane's Defence Industry - first posted to http://jdin.janes.com - 3 February 2006]

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