Analisi difesa number 50
Defense Analisys
Nr. 50
004 - INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
- AERMACCHI: FIRST FLIGHT OF THE SF-260 IN A NEW VERSION FOR THE ITALIAN AIR FORCE
Venegono (Varese) - 25th October 2004 - The SF-260, Aermacchi's (Finmeccanica Group Company) primary trainer, has performed its first flight, in the new "EA" version specifically designed for the Italian Air Force. The maiden flight has las... - AGUSTAWESTLAND OPENS FACILITY IN PHILADELPHIA
Philadelphia, PA - 29 October 2004 - AgustaWestland today opened the expansion to its manufacturing facility where its Philadelphia-based U.S. subsidiary Agusta Aerospace Corporation builds the A119 Koala helicopter used by civilian and law enforceme... - AMS AT EURONAVAL 2004
25 October 2004 - AMS is a world leader in the provision of integrated defence, paramilitary and air traffic mission critical systems, with an established customer base in over 100 countries. AMS operates in the markets of homeland protection, integ... - AMS BEGINS WORK WITH QINETIQ TO IMPROVE RN SENSOR TECHNOLOGY
25 October 2004
AMS, working with QinetiQ, has begun work on a major contract from the UK MOD to improve and enhance sensor technology for the Royal Navy. One of the major aims of the work will be to improve tactical picture quality so that situatio... - AMS NEW COASTAL SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM
25 October 2004 - AMS has developed the CSS - Coastal Surveillance System for early detection, classification and identification of targets moving on the surface and/or flying at low altitude and/or around the coasts within the Exclusive Economic Zon... - AMS PRESENTS NETWORK CAPABILITY WITHIN A NAVAL FORCE AT EURONAVAL CONFERENCE
25 October 2004 - AMS is participating the prestigious conference which runs alongside the Euronaval exhibition in Paris with a paper on Network Capability within a Naval Force - a view from the UK. Dr Mark Townley, AMS Sales and Combat System Accou... - AMS SUPPORTS ROYAL NAVY'S TRAINING MODERNISATION
25 October 2004 - AMS has assisted Flagship Training Limited, under contract to the Naval Recruiting and Training Agency (NRTA) with the move of trainers from HMS Dryad to the Maritime Warfare School at HMS Collingwood, Fareham. Three trainer systems... - AMS ‘SYSTEMS & RADAR SCHOOL’
The setting up of the AMS ‘Systems & Radar School’ springs from the desire to represent the company’s culture with the aim of promoting its wealth of products, history and in-depth knowledge of radars and systems. The Radar Schoo... - AMS’ NEW MARITIME TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM IN TRIESTE
14 October 2004 - AMS, a leader in electronics for defence and air traffic control, is working to create a national coastal monitoring network through the installation of VTS (Vessel Traffic Systems). The project sees AMS involved in its capacity as... - EADS SPACE AND VITROCISET SIGN A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
Rome, September 27, 2004 - VITROCISET and EADS SPACE announce the signature in Paris of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the study of future initiatives and collaborations in the aerospace sector. Major field of cooperation have been identifie... - EADS: € 50 MILLION CONTRACT FOR NEW FINNISH SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM
Ulm/Germany, 21 October 2004. EADS Defence Electronics will equip the Finnish Armed Forces with a software system for automatic processing and fusion of security-related data from a diversity of sources. The EADS Multi-Sensor Tracking System (MST) es... - ELETTRONICA AT EURONAVAL 2004
ELETTRONICA of Rome, Italy, one of Europe's leading manufacturers of Electronic Defence equipment, is present at EURONAVAL 2004 with a display of its latest systems.
ELETTRONICA has been selected by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Navy to supply the... - ELETTRONICA S.p.A. BRIEFING EURONAVAL 27th October 2004
ELETTRONICA TODAY
Founded in 1951 in Rome, is one of Europe's leading manufacturers of Electronic Defence equipment. The experience gained in over 50 years of international commitment to this field and the continuous mastering of one of the most dec... - FINMECCANICA - BAE SYSTEMS: NEW STRUCTURE FOR EUROSYSTEMS
Rome, 20 October 2004 - Finmeccanica and BAE Systems have signed an agreement in principle on a new structure for the EuroSystems transaction that will give Finmeccanica full control of several key businesses and provide economic benefits for the Gro... - FINMECCANICA: BOARD OF DIRECTORS CONFERS POWERS PREVIOUSLY HELD BY MR. TESTORE ON PIER FRANCESCO GUARGUAGLINI
Finmeccanica’s board of directors has accepted Roberto Testore’s decision to step down as CEO and Managing Director of Finmeccanica. The board expressed its heartfelt thanks and its appreciation for Mr. Testore’s hard work and posit... - FINMECCANICA: THE REORGANIZATION OF SENIOR MANAGEMENT
To complete the transformation of the group from a financial into a strategic industrial holding company, Finmeccanica’s board of directors today approved the changes to the senior management proposed by Chairman and CEO Pier Francesco Guarguag... - LOCKHEED MARTIN AND EADS COOPERATE ON NAVAL RADARS
LE BOURGET, FRANCE, October 27, 2004 - During the Euronaval exhibition in Paris today Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and EADS announced that the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) will be equipped with the EADS TRS-3D radar for air and sea sur... - MBDA AND BOEING TO COOPERATE ON BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENCE
9th September 2004 - MBDA and Boeing have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at establishing and developing a cooperative relationship in the area of regional and global missile defence. The MoU establishes an industrial framework wher... - MBDA SIGNS CONTRACT FOR EUROCOPTER NH-90 AND TIGER HELICOPTERS SELF-PROTECTION SYSTEMS
4th September 2004 - MBDA today signed an initial production contract with Eurocopter to equip all versions of the Tiger assault and NH90 multi-role helicopters with the advanced SAPHIR-M decoy self-protection system. The contract, which represents o... - MBDA WINS DECOY ORDER FOR EUROCOPTER NH-90 AND TIGER HELICOPTERS
4th August 2004 - MBDA today signed an initial production contract with Eurocopter to equip all versions of the Tiger assault and NH90 multi-role helicopters with the advanced SAPHIR-M decoy self-protection system. The contract, which represents over... - MBDA: THE MISSILE SYSTEM PRIME CONTRACTOR FOR THE FREMM PROGRAMME
As principal missile systems prime contractor for all the major European naval programmes, MBDA is playing an integral role in the Franco-Italian FREMM (Frégates Européenne Multi-Missions) programme. Under FREMM, MBDA will be developing... - NEW FIRING SUCCESS FOR MBDA'S ASTER SAAM NAVAL DEFENCE SYSTEM
On 29th September 2004, an operational firing of MBDA's SAAM (Surface to Air Anti-Missile) naval point and local self-defence system was successfully carried out from the Royal Saudi Naval Force's (RSNF) frigate, HMS Makkah. With the announcement,... - NEWS FROM AGUSTAWESTLAND
FIRST DENEL AGUSTA A109 LUH UNVEILED
Agusta, is pleased to announce that in a ceremony today at Africa Aerospace and Defence 2004 exhibition the first Denel Aviation assembled A109 LUH was shown publicly for the first time. The helicopter, with South... - NORTHROP GRUMMAN WINS CONTRACT TO SUPPLY NAVIGATION RADAR SETS FOR U.S. NAVY SUBMARINES
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA -- Aug. 19, 2004 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded a contract by the Naval Sea Systems Command to supply navigation radar sets and associated systems engineering for 10 U.S. Navy submarines. The company'... - SWMLU ENTERS PERIOD OF INTENSIVE INTEGRATION
25 October 2004 - The recent successful completion of the SWMLU Critical Design Review (CDR) marks the end of the design phase of the programme and heralds a period of intensive integration, testing and the launch of initial production. In November 2...
