South Africa collaborates with Europe for A-200 corvettes

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The European-South African Corvette Consortium (ESACC) won the $930- million contract to design, build and deliver four Meko A-200 patrol corvettes and their attendant weapon systems to the government of South Africa. ESACC is composed of the German Frigate Consortium, which include Blohm + Voss, Thyssen Rheinstahl Technik and HDW, and the Thomson-CSF consortium of African Defence System and NCS France.

South Africa, Frigates & Corvettes

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Sweeping up: German MCM conversion

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STN Atlas Electronik has landed an estimated $103.6-million contract to convert five German Navy Type 10 SM 343 vessels to minesweeper platforms with an individual capability to remotely control up to four upgraded Seehund-class minesweeper drones. The five vessels, which are FGS Ensdorf, Auerbach, Hameln, Pegnitz and Siegburg, are to be redesignated Type HL 352 vessels and are to be fitted with a new Troika command and control system for operation of the minesweeper drones, a MAS-90 mine-avoidance sonar, Sea Fox single-shot mine disposal vehicles and a DAISY PC-based workstation. Peenewerft Wolgast also landed a contract to upgrade the remaining five Germany Navy SM 343 minesweepers to advanced minehunters. The upgrade will include the installation of the STN Atlas' MWS 80-4 MCM combat system, the Sea Fox system, the DAISY terminal, the TAKIS tactical command information system and an NBD navigation suite.

Germany, Military Ship Conversions, STN Atlas Electronik, Vehicle conversions

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Fincantieri awaits go-ahead for work on Improved Sauro submarines

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Fincantieri anticipates obtaining a contract from the Italian Navy for the modernization of the Improved Sauro-class submarines Primo Longobardo and Gianfranco Gazzana Priaroggia. The deal is valued at over $60 million, and will mainly include the deployment of German-supplied STN Atlas Elektronik ISUS 90 integrated sonar, command and weapons control systems at Fincantieri's Muggiano yard near La Spezia, Italy. The program is intended for making the new boats, constructed in the early 1990s, meet a performance standard similar to that of the new German-designed and Fincantieri-constructed Type U-212A submarines which are to be launched in the coming decade.

Italy, International politics, Military Submarines, Submarines, Fincantieri - Cantieri Navali Italiani S.p.A., U-212A

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