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Chile’s Defense Procurement Could Be Hit By Copper Trade
March 25, 2014 @ 01:41 PMA proposal to delink the copper trade from defense procurement in Chile may upset calculations of defense companies who consider the South American country a potential gold mine for contracts. The new legislation which aims at doing away with a law that requires the copper industry to fund military procurement has been criticized for lacking coherent vision
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DCNS To Showcase Marine Renewable Energy To World Navies At FIDAE 2014
March 25, 2014 @ 10:52 AMDCNS will present its range of naval solutions at FIDAE 2014 and will use the “opportunity to show its involvement in marine renewable energy, a fast-growing sector in Chile”. Partner of the Chilean Navy for a number of years, DCNS opened a representation office in Santiago two years ago to maintain a preferential link with the Navy and meet its requirements, according to an official statement
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DCNS Is Showcasing Corvettes, Frigates and Submarines At DIMDEX 2014
March 24, 2014 @ 11:30 AMDCNS is presenting a wide range of defense and security solutions at DIMDEX in Doha, Qatar. Among them are the FREMM multi-mission frigates, the OPV L'Adroit and the Gowind Combat is a multi-mission corvette which is 100 metres and weighs 2,400 tonnes
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MBDA To Present New Coastal Defense System At DIMDEX 2014
March 21, 2014 @ 02:18 PMMBDA is presenting for the first time ever a new coastal defence system based on the Marte missile family at the DIMDEX exhibition in Doha, Qatar (25-27 March, 2014). This system, the Marte Coastal Defence System (MCDS), guarantees maritime coastal traffic surveillance and interdiction to hostile ships in territorial waters
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Latvia Takes Delivery Of Final Patrol Boat
March 21, 2014 @ 10:45 AMThe Latvian Naval Forces received its fifth and final Skrunda-class patrol boat on 20 March, the Latvian Ministry of Defence has announced. As with the third and fourth boats of the class ( Viesite and Jelgava ), Rezekne was built by Latvia's Riga Shipyard (Rigas Kugu Buvetava - RKB)
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DRS Technologies To Design Hybrid Electric Drive System For S. Korea’s New...
March 20, 2014 @ 08:24 AMDRS Technologies Inc, a Finmeccanica Company, announced today a contract award to design and produce a Hybrid Electric Drive (HED) propulsion system for South Koreas future Incheon-class multipurpose frigate known as FFX Batch II (FFX-II). The contract, valued at more than $9 million USD, was awarded to DRS's Maritime and Combat Support Systems group by Korea's Hyosung Corporation and will include the design, testing, and production of hybrid electric drive (HED) permanent magnet motors and associated motor drives for the first ship-set to be delivered in 2015
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Thales, DCNS Conclude Successful Sea Trials of Columbian Navy Frigates
March 19, 2014 @ 10:54 AMThales and DCNS today announced the comprehensive modernisation programme of the Colombian Navys four Almirante Padilla class frigates has been concluded with a successful Sea Acceptance Test of the classs fourth ship. The contract with the Colombian authorities was signed early 2009, with DCNS acting as prime contractor and Thales as the lead systems integrator for the combat system and communications suite
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FREMM Frigate Normandie Completes Third Series Of Sea Trials
March 13, 2014 @ 08:17 AMThe FREMM Normandie returned to port on Saturday 8 March on the DCNS site in Lorient, at the end of its third series of sea trials, according to a DCNS statement. This frigate is the second of the series ordered by the French DGA (General Directorate for Armament) for the French Navy
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Raytheon Wins $123 Million Phalanx Weapon Systems Contract
February 25, 2014 @ 07:26 AMRaytheon Company has won a $123 million contract to supply nine Phalanx Block 1B Close-In Weapon Systems to the Republic of Korea Navy. Under the direct commercial sale, the largest ever for the Phalanx program, Raytheon will deliver the Phalanx systems for installation aboard the FFX Batch II frigate-class ships and AOE II-class fast combat support ships
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Thales Order Book Valued At $14.17 billion, Increases 7% in 2013 From
February 21, 2014 @ 09:30 AMThales revealed their annual result for the year 2013, stating the order intake has increased about 7% from the previous year totally valued $14.17 billion
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