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Avon Protection has received an order to supply Belgium, Finland and Norway with CBRN respiratory protection including FM50 mask systems, filters, spares and accessories under the $33 million contract awarded by NSPA in August. Avon Protection has received an order to supply Belgium, Finland and Norway with CBRN respiratory protection including FM50 mask systems, filters, spares and accessories. The company has announced the request on 17 December. The framework agreement enables NATO countries and partners to purchase Avon’s respiratory protection system, based around FM50, full suite of f...

The US Army has recently awarded Northrop Grumman a deal under the Stryker Medium Caliber Weapon System 30mm Lethality Upgrade programme. The base contract and first order call for 95 XM813 Bushmaster Chain Guns with initial deliveries beginning in 2022. Northrop Grumman Corporation was recently awarded a contract from the US Army for XM813 Bushmaster Chain Guns as part of the Stryker Medium Caliber Weapon System 30mm Lethality Upgrade programme. The base contract and first order call for 95 chain guns with initial deliveries beginning in early 2022. This deal will support enhancements to th...

Israeli company will provide dismounted C2 equipment, software-defined radios and compact night vision systems. Elbit Systems has received contracts with a combined value of about $65 million from the Dutch MoD for additional digital soldier-borne and vehicular systems, as part of a broader Royal Netherlands Army modernisation programme. The Israeli company announced on 16 December that it will supply digital soldier systems and vehicular integration of ‘improved combat network capabilities’, including TORCH-X dismounted C2 systems and E-LynX software-defined radios systems. The solution...

Franco-German KNDS Appoints New Chairman, MD Our Bureau 2152 KNDS Illustration Five years after its creation, the French and German governments today announced that the land systems manufacturer KNDS will change its governance on December 15, 2020, by appointing a new managing director and a chairman. To approach this new stage in the integration of KNDS, to make the company the benchmark European player in land armament, in particular within the framework of the MGCS program (the future heavy tank to eventually replace the Leopard and Leclerc), the two shareholders have appointed the futur...

France Test-fires Strategic Nuclear Missile, ASMPA from Rafale Jet Our Bureau 3696 Rafale jet carrying ASMPA missile underneath. MBDA image French strategic nuclear air-to-ground medium-range missile (ASMPA) was test fired for the first time from an Air Force Rafale jet yesterday. The missile, developed by MBDA, was fired from a Dassault Aviation Rafale aircraft, as part of a program under the supervision of the French armaments agency, DGA, which took off from an air base in Cazaux on December 9. In tests missiles used are “inert” - without a warhead but having all the electronics and ...