Tag: OCCAR
Italy approves build work for third U212 NFS submarine
Italy’s parliament has approved construction of boat three in the Italian Navy’s (ITN’s) four-boat U212 NFS (Near Future Submarine) diesel-electric submarine (SSK) class.
In a...
Comms in a Cold Climate
Recent purchases of new communications systems are one of several command and control modernisations ongoing in the Finnish Army.
In early December 2022 Conlog announced...
Testing Times
Europe’s ESSOR wideband waveform takes an important step forward in its quest to enhance tactical communications interoperability.
The A4ESSOR consortium announced at this year’s Eurosatory...
ESSOR Moves Ahead
Sources tell Armada that Europe’s ESSOR tactical radio waveform could be ready for use by early 2022.
The news follows the announcement in May that...
Operational Aircraft Trust in Rohde & Schwarz
A400M is now in service with Belgium, France, Germany, Malaysia, Spain, Turkey and the UK, supporting paratrooper deployment, transport and air-to-air refueling capabilities.
Earlier...
Upgraded Thales and Rheinmetall Electronics Simulators for Tiger Helicopters
Armed forces need access to instruction and training resources based on the latest technologies. To make the right decisions at every decisive moment in...
British Ministry of Defence announces they will re-join the Boxer programme
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has announced that they will re-join the Boxer programme via the Organization for Joint Armament Cooperation, or OCCAR,...
Slovenia Selects ARTEC’s Boxer
The 2 February announcement by The Slovenia Ministry of Defense became the most recent national military to select ARTEC’s Boxer 8x8 multi-role armoured vehicle...
Floating out of the eighth FREMM frigate, Normandie: Naval Group reaches its objectives
On 1 February 2018, Naval Group floated the FREMM multi-mission frigate Normandie, just 12 months after the start of hull assembly in the building...
Decision Time
The decision to discard the Airbus Helicopters/Eurocopter EC-665 Tiger-ARH (Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter) gunship announced in the Australian government’s Defence White Paper this February has...