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Glad to see the factory in Italy coming forward. They will build the Italian aircraft an aircraft for the Netherlands, and they will also be a European maintenance and repair depot.

I am waiting to see the Italian "Bravo" aircraft for their navy too.

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Spanish Navy’s frigate Victoria (F82) yesterday set sail from Rota Naval Base to join the anti-piracy Operation Atalanta off the coast of Somalia.

The vessel will be part of the EU Naval Force from October until February. During this period it will contribute by escorting vulnerable vessels, monitoring fishing activities and preventing any pirate activities in the area.

Victoria is expected to visit Greece, Djibouti, Seychelles, Oman, Tanzania and Dubai. Also scheduled is a stop in Taranto, Italy, where the vessel will take part in EUROMARFOR’s change of command ceremony.

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Spain has and maintains six Santa Maria class frigates (which are modified Oliver Hazard Perry Frigates built in Spain) that were commissioned between 1986 and 1995. They have a lsightly bigger beam and larger weight resefves, and replaced the Phalanx CIWS with the 12 barrel, 20mm Meroka CIWS.

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The international exercise Northern Coasts 2015 has started September 12 and will last until September 24. Participating in the exercise are 40 ships and vessels as well as eleven airplanes from 17 nations with around 3800 soldiers.

The host country of this year’s Northern Coasts is Germany with Fleet Admiral Georg von Maltzan at the helm. According to the German Navy, the Admiral is leading the exercise from the Maritime Operations Center (MOC) in Glücksburg.

Germany, as the host country, is taking part in the exercise with almost 1000 soldiers from various branches of the army. The German Navy is deploying eight ships including helicopters and a P-3C Orion.

The essential goal of the exercise is international conflict prevention and crisis response. Participants will practice the collaboration of different military units in an international environment. The area of operation is enclosed by the shores of Sweden, Denmark and Germany.

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The Spanish LHD Juan Carlos I is certifying her flight deck to operate the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft for the forthcoming international joint-combined exercise Trident Juncture in October and November.

These aircraft come from the US Marine Corps VMM-261 detachment currently deployed in the Spanish Morón Air Base as part of the Special Purpose MAGTF-Crisis Response Africa.

The Osprey conducted 15 landings on the LHD’s flight deck as well as a hot refueling operation. The Spanish flight personnel took the opportunity to familiarize with this aircraft: landing and tie down procedures, refueling and taxiing.

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This almost surely means that the RAN will be looking at doing the same for the Canberras.

The French Navy orders 4 vessels responsible for support and assistance at sea, BSAH


(Defensa.com) Kership joint venture entity Piriou and DCNS, has been awarded a contract by the DGA (General Armament) French Navy to supply this country two support vessels and offshore support BSAH (Bâtiments de soutien et d'Assistance Hauturiers) firm and as many optional maintenance associated with facing the deployment of forces at sea. The design and build a with a high degree of versatility and autonomy thirty days; while the other will provide the communications system on board and will be responsible for support for five years. Kership capitalize the original experience in the OPV L'Adroit, developed by DCNS with its own funds and made available to the French Navy for four years.

They will have 70.3 m. long, 5 draft and a displacement of 2,600 tons. The first two units will be delivered in 2018 and the other 2 in 2019 will have drive capability of 80 ton fixed point. and 14 knots. They will be equipped with a working boat 8m. and other semi and a crane for loading and unloading of containers 12 ton., also accommodating a dozen divers, carrying weapons and ammunition, supporting submarines in scale, has a fire suppression system and deploying a Pollution control barrier. The cargo deck is 250 square meters. and superstructure is zero, accommodating 12 passengers and 17 crew. It has two engines and two 2650 kW generator sets of 300 kWe.

Pirou works in construction, repair, marine engineering and services since 1965, specializing in medium-sized vessels of up to 120 m. in length, with a high added value through a combination of high performance engineering and a global network of manufacturing locations in Europe, Africa and Asia. It has delivered worldwide more and 400 boats. DCNS, meanwhile, won in 2014 revenues of 3,100 million euros, with a workforce of 13,130 people. Both Kership formed in 2013, controlling Pirou 55 percent and 45 DCNS, offering the market a wide range of vessels up to 95 m. for navies, coast guard, customs and scientific institutions.

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Captor-E on Typhoon

• 14 September, 2015
• BY: Dominic Perry
• London

The Euroradar consortium is closing in on the flight-test phase for its Captor E-Scan active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, for the Eurofighter Typhoon.

A pair of instrumented production aircraft (IPA) will be used for the test effort – IPA5 from the UK and IPA8 from Germany – and are nearly ready for radar installation, says consortium chairman Andrew Cowdery.

“Both aircraft are nearing completion in terms of accepting the radar,” he says. The €1 billion ($1.1 billion) programme – which is part of a broader capability enhancement for the Typhoon – is "on track" to launch the next phase, which will require a "significant amount" of flight testing to complete the calibration and integration of the new radar.

Flight trials will kick off using IPA5 – which is running slightly ahead of its German sister aircraft, with the activity to begin this year.

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Selex – a member of the Euroradar consortium – is also “well advanced” in its work with Saab to install and test the Raven ES-05 AESA radar on the developmental Gripen E, says Cowdery.

Rheinmetall offer to Polish special forces his armored AMPV


(Defensa.com) The Multiple Purpose Armoured Vehicle (AMPV) is an armored compact size, the result of the lessons learned during recent international missions such as ISAF in Afghanistan vehicle. It has a high level of protection and can be equipped with different weapon systems, ranging from manually weaponry weapon stations use remote or automatic grenade launcher. Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles (LTR) as presented in the fair of defense MOSOP, which has recently taken place in Poland.

It has a length of 5.6 meters, less than eight tons carrying capacity two tonnes and hosts a crew of five. Steyr engine has a 3.3 liter engine with 272 hp, automatic transmission, central differential lock control, maximum speed of 110 km / h, a range of up to 700 kilometers, you can meet 60% slopes, steep slopes laterally up to 40% and water fording depth of 850 mm. and ditches exceed 750 mm. It can be transported in the cargo of medium transport aircraft like the C-130 Hercules or A400M or by sling with heavy helicopters CH-47 or CH-53.

The shield includes transparent blocks and can be expanded with additional modules, can receive specific equipment such as acoustic sniper location system ASLS Rheinmetall, Situational Awareness System (SAS) also Rheinmetall, which allows you to monitor all 360 degrees around the vehicle .

ROSY concealment system (Rapid Obscuring System for land vehicles) is also available to reduce the infrared signature of the vehicle and laser, digital communications system FONET WB Electronics. The level of ballistic protection in the basic version is Level 3 according to STANAG 4569 NATO standards but can be increased to levels 3A and 3B against mines.

Demand for the Armed Forces of Poland
The AMPV is a candidate to equip the armed forces of Poland an armored patrol that could be acquired up to 500 vehicles by 2022. In addition could also give Polish special forces, within the program called PEGAZ vehicle (Pegaso ). Therefore the AMPV presented was modified for the special needs of these units.


In June this year, the AMPV demonstrated its capabilities during a presentation held at the Institute for Automotive and Armored Vehicles Technology (Instytut Techniki Wojskowy Samochodowej Pancernej i) of Poland. During the AMPV MOSOP was introduced by a business group formed by Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles, Krauss-Maffei Wegman and the Polish company Rosomak. The amendments requested by the special forces in the vehicle exposed include weapons station ZSMU-1276 Polish manufacturer Tarnow with a heavy machine gun, thermal imager, laser rangefinder camera and daytime television. It also includes other amendments as specific communications equipment or personnel elongated compartment for up to 3 meters.

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German aircraft manufacture, wants to assemble training aircraft in Paraguay


(Defensa.com) The proposal arises in the context of the intention of the Paraguayan Air Force to adopt new primary trainers for the training of its pilots. The executive director of the German company Grob Aircraft, André Hiebeler, said Tuesday the president, Horacio Cartes, the firm intends to settle in Paraguay for the assembly of aircraft primary education for both military and civil aviation and installing an entire aircraft structure. "The German company brings a project that will generate work, want to come to assemble the aircraft in Paraguay and this is also part of a complete system that includes training and instruction to pilots, simulator and aircraft manufacturing," the ambassador of Paraguay to the Federal Republic of Germany, Fernando Ojeda, after meeting with President Horacio Cartes.

The ambassador said Grob Aircraft is committed to bring test aircraft late November to show in situ the type of aircraft intended to be assembled in the country. After the meeting with Horacio Cartes, the representative of the German company will meet with the defense minister and the commander of the Air Force to discuss details of the project. Ojeda said that after the November visit could define deadlines and installation in the country and the amount of investment that will require the project.

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The Dutch army ended its use of tank some time ago and sold most of them to Finland IIRC. It still owns sixteen of them, Leopards, and will now set up a new armoured "division" of eighteen. Where the other two are coming from? I don't know, this mornings news didn't say.