Yearly Archive: 2022

Rheinmetall has received several major orders from a NATO customer to supply components for force protection equipment. The orders are worth a total of nearly €250 million gross. Delivery of the components is expected to start in 2023 and be complete by 2025.

“The armed forces of our country and …

Germany and the Czech Republic are supporting Ukraine in the fight against Russia with additional weapon systems. The partners agreed on a so-called ring exchange on Wednesday: the Czech Republic will provide Ukraine with heavy weapons, and in return the neighboring country will receive German-made …

As part of the FR/UK MMCM Prototype Programme, the French Marine Nationale received qualified delivery of the next MMCM incremental capability step know as Remotely Operated Vehicle – Identification (ROV-I) on 16th May 2022 in Brest (France).

This Identification function builds upon previous cap…

LUXEMBOURG — The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has successfully completed the design verification and validation of Reconnaissance Surveillance and Target Acquisition (RSTA) Systems to the Slovak Armed Forces. The contract, awarded in July 2021, includes several RSTA capability kits, …

On Thursday, May 19, at 11 hours 03 minutes (Moscow time), a Space Troops combat crew of the Aerospace Forces successfully launched the Soyuz-2.1a medium-class carrier rocket with a spacecraft on behalf of the Ministry of Defence of Russia from the State Testing Spaceport of the Ministry of Defence …

Rheinmetall has successfully tested the technology demonstrator version of a laser weapon built on behalf of the German Bundeswehr. The first trials with the laser testbed were conducted at Rheinmetall’s proving ground in Unterlüß as part of a Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS) campaign.

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