Daily news - Day 5
Show success for Kylmar
UK company Kylmar, a specialist in high-performance electro-optic systems and equipment for a wide range of surveillance missions, has made a significant investment to bring a number of products to IDEX for the first time to demonstrate its capabilities.
22 February, 2007
Powering ahead
Capitalising on its pedigree in high performance power boating, Italian company FB Design (Stand 403) is marketing a range of high-speed patrol boat designs suitable for a variety of naval, special forces and paramilitary roles.
22 February, 2007
Action Plus
Oto Melara, part of Italy’s Finmeccanica group (Stand 1711), has completed development of a new 3AP (3 Action Plus) multifunction programmable fuze and is now undertaking series production under contract to the Italian Navy.
22 February, 2007
Top attack protection
RUAG Land Systems of Switzerland has developed and placed in production a new top attack protection system for armoured fighting vehicles (AFV) called PROTEPUR-S. This has already been ordered by the Royal Netherlands Army for installation of some of its BAE Systems Hägglunds CV9035 infantry fighting vehicles.
22 February, 2007
Eco-friendly small-arms ammunition
A leader in the field of rifle and pistol ammunition for police and armed forces, RUAG (Stand 1020, Swiss Pavilion) is showing its new lead-free 5.56mm and 9mm ammunition for Luger and other weapons used by many armed forces for combat and training. By employing the company’s Sintox technology, pollution with heavy metals is virtually eliminated.
22 February, 2007
Safer live fire training
Live fire used in urban warfare or counter-terrorism training can pose lethal danger due to ricochets or firing through a wall, a problem addressed by the Target Group (Turkish Pavilion) in Ankara. The company has developed Tarcon, which makes use of closed cell concrete that can be moulded into almost any shape to provide a very safe bullet containment system.
22 February, 2007
Defeating threats
Saab Avitronics (CON 5 Swedish Pavilion) brings news of the latest endeavours to defeat threats to light and medium combat vehicles. The fruit of research and development in Saab’s South African facility, Land Electronic Defence System (LEDS) is said to have a unique capability to ultimately provide MBT-level protection to such vehicles. But that will be in a few years hence when the highest-level LEDS-300 becomes available to defeat kinetic energy and stand-off threats.
22 February, 2007
More Atlas sonars for Denmark
Germany’s Atlas Elektronik – a joint company of ThyssenKrupp and EADS – has sold three ASO 94 hullmounted anti-submarine sonar systems for the Royal Danish Navy’s (RDN’s) new Patrol Ships.
22 February, 2007
DDG 1000 sets the benchmark
The US Navy’s DDG 1000 is set to revolutionise naval warfare and become the benchmark by which other major naval assets are judged. Not that many navies would want or could afford a destroyer as capable as the DDG 1000 promises to be. So its significance is the state-of-the art nature of the systems integration provided by Raytheon.
Increasingly, major defence projects get to centre stage because of the quality of systems integration or project management, rather than simply which company builds the platform. With Northrop Grumman Ship Systems and General Dynamics designated as the ship builders, Raytheon Integrated Defence Systems has the role of systems integrator, with Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems major subcontractors.
22 February, 2007
WASPP buzzes IDEX
Al Badie (ABG), Stand OD250, presents for the first time in the GCC, the Copa Water and Sewage Process Package (WASPP) for field operations, drilling camps, offshore services and disaster relief. The temporary, redeployable Copa WASPP has been specifically designed for rapid deployment, providing a reliable, robust method of treating sewage effluent in extreme operating conditions. It is based on Copa’s proven biological treatment process plant incorporating either Submerged Aerated Filter (SAF) or Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) technology.
22 February, 2007