Analisi difesa number 47
Defense Analisys
Nr. 47
002 - WORLD ANALYSIS
- AGREEMENT REACHED ON MOVING U.S. FORCES IN KOREA
Jul 23, 2004 - The Department of Defense announced today that representatives of the Republic of Korea and the United States finalized agreements to relocate all U.S. Forces from the Seoul Metropolitan Area to the Pyongtaek area. The decision was re... - ALLIED COUNTRIES JOIN FORCES IN MARITIME EXERCISE
Ten allied countries will participate in a multinational exercise off the coast of Morocco to show the combined force capabilities and quick response times of the participating naval, air, undersea and surface warfare groups from July 11-16.
The U.S... - JFC NAPLES ASSUMES RESPONSIBILITY FOR NRF
With a Change of Command ceremony held in Istanbul on 27 June 2004, Admiral Gregory G. Johnson, Commander Joint Force Command (JFC) Naples assumed responsibilities for the NATO Response Force (NRF). JFC Naples will be in charge of NRF until 30 June 2... - JOINT EXERCISE SINGAROO FOR AUSTRALIA AND SINGAPORE
11 August 2004 - The Royal Australian Navy and Air Force will commence 'Exercise Singaroo', a joint exercise involving the navies and air forces of Australia and Singapore, today off the coast of Darwin. The Royal Australian Navy ships participating... - M1A1 ABRAMS TANK AGREEMENT SIGNED IN AUSTRALIA
Friday, 9 July 2004
Australia has signed a formal agreement with the United States to buy a new fleet of M1A1 Abrams tanks, Defence Minister Robert Hill announced today. Under this agreement, the US Government will provide 59 refurbished and updated... - NATO ASSISTANCE TO GREECE
As a result of Greece’s request, NATO has launched operational activities entitled ”Distinguished Games“ to assist the Hellenic Government to ensure the safe conduct of the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games. NATO’s efforts wil... - NATO TO TRANSFORM MILITARY STRUCTURE IN BOSNIA
28 May 04 - The multinational brigades within the NATO-led SFOR peacekeeping mission in Bosnia will be renamed Multi National Task Forces (MNTF), according to a factsheet published on NATO's official website (http://www.nato.int/sfor/index.htm) on 2... - NEXT GENERATION AIRCRAFT CARRIER CONTRACT AWARDED
May 21 - The Navy and Northrop Grumman Newport News (NGNN) have successfully negotiated the construction preparation (CP) contract for CVN 21, the next generation aircraft carrier. CVN 21 will be the centerpiece of tomorrow's carrier strike groups a... - US TO WITHDRAW A THIRD OF ITS KOREAN FORCES
From Richard Lloyd Parry - THE TIMES
Tokyo, 8 June - THE United States is to cut its military forces in South Korea, removing nearly one third of the army deployed there against the threat of North Korean invasion for the past 50 years. The US want...
004 - INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
- ALENIA AERONAUTICA DELIVERS THE FIRST TWO MLU 1ST UPGRADE TORNADO AIRCRAFT
16 July 2004 - Alenia Aeronautica/Finmeccanica has delivered to the Italian Air Force the first two Tornado aircraft revised and strengthened in the MLU version (Mid Life Upgrade) 1st Upgrade. The Tornado upgrading programme, started in July 2002, on... - ALENIA AERONAUTICA TO SUPPORT HONEYWELL-CATERPILLAR LOGISTICS TEAM ON F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER LOGISTICS
Rome - 29 July 2004 - Italy’s Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica Company, will collaborate with the team of Honeywell and Caterpillar Logistics Services Inc. to provide inventory management, warehousing, packaging, transportation and integratio... - AMS APPOINTS NEW GENERAL MANAGER
The Board of Directors of AMS, a joint venture between FINMECCANICA and BAE Systems, has appointed Mr. Giovanni Soccodato as General Manager of Alenia Marconi Systems SpA.
Mr. Soccodato, 43, a graduate in Information Sciences from Pisa University, bo... - AMS SHORE-BASED TRAINER FOR TURKISH MINEHUNTER ENTERS SERVICE
22 June - The first AMS Shore-Based Training Simulator (SBTS) for minehunters using the new generation NAUTIS Combat Management System has entered service with the Turkish Navy. The provision of the high fidelity SBTS for command and operator trainin... - BAe DISCUSSES AIRCRAFT DEAL WITH LIBYA
July 7 - BAe Systems has launched negotiations for the sale of aircraft to Libya. Industry sources said Libya has expressed strong interest in both civilian and military aircraft from BAe. The sources said BAe has advanced in negotiations to sell civ... - BOEING TO DEVELOP NAVY'S MULTI-MISSION MARITIME AIRCRAFT
14 June - The Department of Defense announced today that McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boeing Co., has been awarded a ,889,979,744 cost-plus-award-fee contract to develop the U.S. Navy's Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft (MM... - CONTRACT SIGNED WITH GKN FOR ACQUISITION OF 50% STAKE IN AGUSTAWESTLAND
28 July Further to the announcement on 26 May 2004, Finmeccanica announces that it has signed definitive agreements with GKN plc in relation to the proposed acquisition of GKN’s 50 per cent stake in AgustaWestland N.V., the helicopter joint ve... - EADS ADAPTS MISSILE WARNING SYSTEM- CONTRACT FOR DANISH F-16 AWARDED
Farnborough, July 2004 - EADS Defence Electronics is adapting its MILDS® missile warning system to a new configuration MILDS® F, accommodating the demanding requirements of fighter aircraft such as the F-16 ”Fighting Falcon“. The... - EADS MAKES IT SAFER TO TRANSPORT PEOPLE IN CRISIS AREAS
Friedrichshafen, 29 July 2004 - EADS is developing a protected personal transport container for the safety of soldiers and civilians in crisis areas. As the company announced on 29 July 2004, the Federal Office of Defence Technology and Procurement h... - EADS ROLLS OUT THE SURVEILLANCE AND TARGET ACQUISITION RADAR SYSTEM IN LITHUANIA
Farnborough Air Show 19. July, 2004 - The Surveillance and Target Acquisition Radar System (TRML-3D) from EADS Defence and Communications Systems has successfully delivered the first of three planned systems to the Lithuanian Air force. The contract... - EADS SIGN CONTRACT WITH BUNDESWEHR
Friedrichshafen, Germany 14. July 2004 - EADS Defence and
Communications Systems has been awarded a contract for € 20 million by the German Bundeswehr IT Office to provide the Military Message Handling System for the Bundeswehr by the end of 200... - EADS SUPPORT NH90 AND TIGER HELICOPTER MISSIONS
Farnborough, July 2004 - EADS Defence Electronics will equip the current NH90 and Tiger programmes with mission avionics subsystems. As reported by EADS during Farnborough Airshow, Eurocopter has awarded EADS Defence Electronics several contracts amo... - EADS TECHNOLOGY PROTECTS GERMAN HELICOPTERS IN AFGHANISTAN
Ulm, 12 August 2004 - EADS will be equipping the CH-53 helicopters of the German Armed Forces intended for operations in Afghanistan with missile warning systems incorporating the most modern technology. As the company announced on Thursday, the Fede... - ELETTRONICA AT FARNBOROUGH 2004
ELETTRONICA of Rome, Italy, one of Europe's leading manufacturers of Electronic Defence equipment, is present at Farnborough 2004 with a display of its latest systems. ELETTRONICA, since 1951, is specialised in the design, development and manufacture... - EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON SINGLE-SEAT PRODUCTION AIRCRAFT TAKES FLIGHT
(Hallbergmoos - 02 July 2004) PS002, the fifth Eurofighter Typhoon Instrumented Production Aircraft (IPA5), successfully carried out its first flight on 7 June 2004, at BAE SYSTEMS Warton, United Kingdom. IPA5 took off from Warton at 1602h, piloted b... - FIRST FLIGHT SUCCESSFULLY PERFORMED BY THE AERMACCHI M-346
Venegono (Italy) - July 15th, 2004 - The Aermacchi M-346 next-generation advanced/lift military trainer flew for the first time on Thursday, July 15th 2004. The aircraft took off from the Venegono airfield in Italy at 8,30 hours local time (7,30 GMT... - GRIPEN TRIALS SUCCESS MARKS NEXT MILESTONE FOR METEOR
21st April 2004 - Another significant milestone for the Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM) programme was successfully achieved today in Linköping, Sweden. MBDA and its Meteor partner, SAAB, undertook the first trial fit of a... - HELITECH LATIN AMERICA TO JOIN LAAD AT RIOCENTRO 26-29 APRIL 2005
Helitech Europe and Helitech LA joined the Reed Exhibitions’ Aerospace & Defence Group portfolio following the acquisition of Spearhead Exhibitions last year. Helitech LA was organised in Sao Paulo for the first time in November 2002 and h... - MBDA, IAI SIGN MISSILE DEFENCE ACCORD
Farnborough, 21st July 2004 - MBDA, Europe’s leading guided missile systems company, and Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore technological cooperation in the area of missile defence. Und... - MIDEAST LEADERS VISIT FARNBOROUGH
July 22 - Middle East defense chief have flocked to the Farnborough Air Show. The Middle East visitors have included defense chiefs from Bahrain, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. They toured the Farnborough exhibition as well as held ta... - OTO MELARA ROLL-OUT OF THE FIRST HITFISTTURRETS TO THE POLISH ARMY
The official ceremony for the delivery to the Polish Ministry of Defence of the first wheeled Infantry Armoured Vehicle AMV 8x8 of the Finnish company Patria, equipped with the HITFIST® 30mm Oto Melara turret, took place on 30th June 2004 in Sule... - RAFALE MARINE ENTERS OPERATIONAL SERVICE
July 5th - The Rafale Marine entry into operational service was announced on June 25, 2004, at the Landivisiau naval airbase by Admiral Battet, Chief of naval staff in the presence of Charles Edelstenne, Dassault Aviation Chairman and CEO and Serge... - S3LOG: THE NEW ITALIAN INDUSTRIAL HUB
Rome, July 8, 2004 - Datamat, Elsag and Vitrociset announce to have signed today an agreement for the creation of the S3LOG Consortium for the supply of Defence Logistics Information Systems and Services, to be formalised on July 14, 2004. The Consor... - START OF MANUFACTURING OF THE FIRST CORVETTE CLASS 130 FOR THE GERMAN NAVY
Hamburg, 19 July 2004 - Attended by numerous guests from the Federal Ministry for Defence, the Federal German Procurement Office, as well as by the K130 prime contractor , Blohm + Voss and its partners, the Lürssen Werft (GmbH & Co.) and... - THE FIRST EF-2000 PRODUCTION-SERIES SINGLE-SEATER FLIES IN ITALY
12 July 2004 - The first production-series single-seat Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft to carry out the first flight belongs to Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica company. The flight has taken place successfully at Alenia Caselle (Turin) plant. The ai... - TIPS INDUSTRIES EXTEND INDUSTRIAL PARTICIPATION PACT TO ROMANIA
Bucharest, June 25th 2004 - Industries presenting the Transatlantic Industrial Proposed Solution (TIPS) for the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) have extended their industrial participation plan to include Romanian industry.
The TIPS Industr...
011 - ENDURING FREEDOM
- AL QAIDA COULD OBTAIN IRAQI WMD
Al Qaida could gain access to components of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. A senior Russian official said Al Qaida's alliance with members of the former regime of Saddam Hussein could provide the Islamic movement with access to WMD and other se... - CHEMICAL ATTACK: UNDERSTANDING THE THREAT
By Fred Burton - Stratfor.com
As Stratfor predicted in mid-May, the threat of a terrorist attack inside the United States is intensifying. U.S. counterterrorism sources are greatly concerned about an attack this summer, as demonstrated by the May 26... - EADS FUTURE SOLDIER SYSTEM PROTECTS GERMAN TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN
Hammelburg/Germany 1 July 2004 - EADS will equip 150 soldiers of the German ISAF contingent in Afghanistan with the new future soldier system known as "Infanterist der Zukunft" (IdZ) (”Infantryman of the future“) thus considerab... - FOCUS ON NATO'S NEW ROLE AT ISTANBUL : AIDING FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY
By David Anthony Denny
Washington File Staff Writer
Istanbul, Turkey --- Questions about Iraq's return to sovereignty 48 hours ahead of schedule and the effort of democracies to fight terrorism pushed other NATO issues to the background at a joint p... - IRAN COULD TEST ICBMs AS EARLY AS 2005
5 June - Washington- The U.S. intelligence community has determined that Iran could begin testing components of intercontinental ballistic missiles as early as 2005. U.S. officials said Iran has achieved sufficient progress in its Shihab-class interm... - IRAN ESTABLISHES SUICIDE TRAINING CENTER
London, 30 May - Iran was said to have established what could be the first training center for Islamic suicide attackers. Iranian sources and media asserted that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has established a center to train suicide attacker... - ISRAEL URGED TO CONDUCT PREEMPTIVE STRIKES ON WMD
Tel Aviv, 3 June - Israel has been urged by leading strategists to plan preemptive strikes against weapons of mass destruction arsenals in the Middle East. A report, entitled "Israel's Strategic Future," asserted that Israel must prevent th... - SYRIAN GOVERNMENT BANK HELPED FUND AL QAIDA
The United States has determined that a Syrian government bank helped fund Al Qaida. The Treasury Department said the Commercial Bank of Syria and its subsidiary provided financial services to what the government agency described as "terrorists... - THE CHANGES OF ISAF COMMAND
On August 9th 2004, In Afghanistan, the command of NATO International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) has been handed over by Canada to Eurocorps actually commanded by French Army Lt. Gen. Jean-Louis Py. ISAF was created, as an UN-mandated inter...
