Defence Industry

Plasan Sasa Wins Contract to Supply Personal Armor to Israel Defense Forces

Plasan Sasa Wins Contract to Supply Personal Armor to Israel Defense Forces The Company Will Supply Over 2000 Ergonomic Assault Vests in Multi-Million Dollar Project.

Defence Industry

A New 8x8 Armoured Personnel Carrier Developed in Ukraine

The State-owned Enterprise Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau (SOE KMDB) has unveiled its new development – BTR-4 8x8 armoured personnel carrier (APC) – at the Aviasvit'2006 exhibition held on a military aerodrome near Kyiv.

Defence Industry

Swiss Army selects Tadiran Electronic Systems Tactical Communication Solution

Holon, Israel -- Tadiran Electronic Systems, a member of the Elisra Group and one of Israel's leading suppliers of state-of-the-art electronics and communications systems for land and naval applications, announced that its TCC/IP Tactical Communication Controller has been selected as a common platform for the integration of the Swiss Army's today tactical radios.

Future Technologies

FCS Manned Ground Vehicles Pass Key Army and Functional Review

ST. LOUIS -- The Future Combat System (FCS) family of Manned Ground Vehicles (MGVs) being developed by the LSI MGV Team, including their major teammates General Dynamics and BAE Systems, successfully completed the U.S. Army and Lead Systems Integrator’s (LSI) Systems Functional Review (SFR) event.

Defence Industry

GD Awarded $31M Contract for RG-31 Mine Protected Vehicles for the Canadian Military

The Government of Canada has awarded a CAD $31 million (US $28 million) contract to General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada to provide 25 additional RG-31 Mine Protected Vehicles. General Dynamics Land Systems, the Canadian company's parent corporation, is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD).

Contracts

BAE Systems awards contract for Iraqi Light Armored Vehicles

BAE Systems Land & Armaments L.P., York, Pa., was awarded on May 30, 2006, a delivery order amount of $180,503,000 as part of a $445,439,000 firm-fixed-price contract for Iraqi Light Armored Vehicles (ILAV).

Defence Industry

IVEMA Launches First New Generation APC

A new privately developed military vehicle was launched by the IVEMA company at the Gerotek test range outside Pretoria today (22 May 2006).

Defence Industry

Ceradyne Inc. Receives $15.8M Ceramic Body Armor Orders for U.S. Marines

COSTA MESA, Calif. -- Ceradyne, Inc. received three ceramic body armor delivery orders from the U.S. Marine Corps, Quantico, Virginia, totaling over $15.8 million.

Robots

Foster-Miller receives $133 million contract for robot parts and service

Foster-Miller receives $133 million contract for robot parts and service In addition to the $96 million TALON EOD robots contract announced two weeks ago Foster-Miller Inc. - a wholly owned QinetiQ company since November 2004 - has been awarded a $133 million contract for TALON(TM) robot spare parts and service, bringing its total current award for TALON(TM) EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) robots to $257 million through 2012.

Future Technologies

Lockheed Martin Demonstrates Revolutionary Tactical Vehicle Armor

Dallas, TX, -- Lockheed Martin has developed and demonstrated a new lightweight, low-cost tactical vehicle armor that promises exceptional multi-hit survivability against armor-piercing rifle bullets and high-speed fragments from improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

Defence Industry

Indra Will Develop the Friend or Foe Identification System for the Spanish Army

The contract awarded totals almost 12 million euro and has an execution period of 24 months.

Defence Industry

SOE KMDB Unveiled a New Version of the DOZOR-B APC

Kharkiv, Ukraine – The leading Ukrainian developer of armoured vehicles – State-owned Enterprise Kharkiv Morozov Machine-building Design Bureau – unveiled a new version of its Dozor-B 4x4 light armoured personnel carrier.

Future Technologies

BAE Systems Selects Saft America for BMHV of FCS Manned Ground Vehicles

Santa Clara, Calif. -- BAE Systems has selected the Space and Defense Division of Saft America Inc., based in Cockeysville, MD, to supply the Battery Module, High Voltage (BMHV) for the Future Combat System Manned Ground Vehicle program. BMHV is a critical component of the hybrid propulsion system.

Defence Industry

General Dynamics Awarded $19 Million for Stryker-Related Contracts

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. -- The U.S. Army TACOM Lifecycle Management Command has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), $19 million in Stryker eight-wheeled combat vehicle-related contracts.

Army

New Special Forces Support Group: Inaugural Parade

Secretary of State for Defence, the Rt Hon Des Browne MP, and the Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Mike Jackson, attended the inaugural parade of the new Special Forces Support Group at RAF St Athan in Wales on 11 May 2006.