Last week, high-ranking representatives from BMVg, BAAINBw and German Navy tested the possibilities and capabilities of ship-based laser weapons at sea. The corresponding demonstrator is located on frigate Sachsen. On August 30, this frigate was the first German Navy ship to successfully deploy a laser weapon. The target at the time was a drone. Since…
Procurement reform is almost as old as Bundeswehr and to claim that its protracted nature has only become a problem in this millennium misses the point. Take the Starfighter affair, Jäger 90, transformation of the BWB into the BAAINBw. In addition, there were many rule changes, CPM (nov.) was introduced to speed up processes –…
The CV90 industrial cooperation program in Slovakia to buy 152 CV9035 MkIV continues to progress. Now Slovak company KOVAL SYSTEMS a.s has won a contract from BAE Systems Hägglunds, the producer of the CV90 family of vehicles, for the complete turret assembly of the CV90s in the Slovak program. KOVAL SYSTEMS will also produce mechanical…
The programme of the BSC has many fathers and mothers. The First Concept was developed by the BSC team and coordinated with our partner nation the Netherlands. Substantial support is also provided by the Advisory Board that we introduced in one of our last articles. All these activities result in a challenging programme with a…
Rohde & Schwarz launched the R&S ESMW ultra wideband monitoring receiver recently. That system covers the wide frequency range of 8 kHz to 40 GHz with real-time bandwidth of up to two Gigahertz. It has a target-oriented ITU-compliant RF performance, modular upgradeability and a rich feature set in order to measure current and future wideband…