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ATK to Provide Mk44 30mm Cannon to Czech Republic Minneapolis -- Alliant Techsystems has received a contract valued at approximately $20 million for Mk44 30mm cannon weapon systems that will be mounted on the Czech Republic’s PANDUR II Wheeled Armored Vehicles. The Mk44 will be mounted in the RCWS-30 (Remote Control Weapon System) manufactured by RAFAEL Armament Development Authority Ltd. The RCWS-30 increases the fighting capability and survivability of armored fighting vehicles. It includes ATK’s 30mm Mk44, a launcher pod for two Rafael SPIKE LR Multi-Purpose-Guided-Missiles, and a coaxial 7.62mm General-Purpose Machine Gun. The Mk44 gun system is a highly reliable weapon with low life-cycle costs that incorporates a simple and user-friendly design to ensure ease of operability. The Czech Republic Army put the RCWS-30, integrated with the Mk44 30mm weapon system, through a series of rugged tests before determining that it was the choice for their PANDUR II. The test regime included integration capability on both the PANDUR II and Patria Armoured Modular Vehicle (AMV); open-water crossings; test drives on paved and off-road surfaces; and on-loading and off-loading in a C-130 Hercules aircraft. This success is a result of long-term cooperation between RAFAEL and ATK. ATK’s Mk 44 30mm weapon system is already the choice of nearly 2,000 land vehicles, aircraft, and ship-board weapon systems for the United States and allied nations including Finland, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. “The MK44 cannon is the international standard for ground and naval platforms,” said Jed Holzapfel, ATK Vice President, International Business Development. “In partnership with Rafael and others, we look forward to providing ATK’s entire family of Chain Gun® weapon systems to our allies around the world.” Source: ATK DRS Test and Energy Management, Inc. to Provide Embedded Diagnostics Kits for Bradley A3 vehicles DRS Test and Energy Management Inc., Huntsville, Ala., was awarded on April 14, 2006, a delivery order amount of $22,941,600 as part of a $34,412,300 firm-fixed-price contract for chassis modernization/embedded diagnostics kits for the Bradley A3 vehicles. Work will be performed in Huntsville, Ala., and is expected to be completed by Feb. 28, 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This was a sole source contract initiated on Nov. 15, 2005. The U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (DAAE20-03-G-0001). Source: US DoD AM General, L.L.C. Awarded a Contract for M1152 AM General L.L.C., South Bend, Ind., was awarded on April 12, 2006, a $10,004,324 modification to a firm-fixed-price contract for M1152 (2-Door) High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles. Work will be performed in South Bend, Ind., and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This was a sole source contract initiated on July 17, 2000. The U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (DAAE07-01-C-S001). Source: US DoD Kalashnikov Against US Double Standards On April 15, 2006 a briefing for Russian and foreign journalists with participation of the chief designer of Izhmach Concern JSC, Rosoboronexport State Corporation director general adviser, president of the Union of Russian gunmakers, lieutenant-general Mikhail T. Kalashnikov was held in the Moscow office of Rosoboronexport. At the briefing top-managers of Rosoboronexport and Izhmach Concern JSC applied to public. An occasion of the meeting was the article published in the American newspaper "The Washington Times", which referring to an anonymous source in the US Administration gave information that Russia had sold to Venezuela a batch of supposedly refurbished AK-47 assault rifles instead of the promised new ones. Speaking at the briefing the chief of administration staff of Rosoboronexport director general Dmitry Shugaev declared that in May 2005 on behalf of the Government of the Russian Federation the Rosoboronexport State Corporation concluded a contract with Venezuela to deliver a batch of a new generation AK-103 Kalashnikov assault rifles. Izhmach Concern JSC is an executive of the contract. Dmitry Shugaev marked that Russia strictly observed her obligations in full compliance with specified terms of delivery. In the framework of the briefing questions concerning protection of Russian small arms designers' intellectual property were raised, public attention was drawn to the facts of unlicensed production and selling of Kalashnikov weapons. Every year illegal circulation of unlicensed light weapons reaches up to 2 bln US dollars. Infringing Kalashnikov assault rifles made in the worst traditions of unlicensed manufacturing constitute up to 80-90 %. Thus, an unjustified damage is caused to the image of Russia as a leading exporter of up-to-date armament and military equipment, the world-famous Russian brand of Kalashnikov assault rifles is discredited. Dmitry Shugaev underlined, that when small arms were delivered with overdue licences or without such at all, intergovernmental agreements and norms of international law were roughly broken. Russia does her best to provide protection of intellectual activity results in the sphere of high defence technologies. This is a matter of special importance on the eve of Russia's joining World Trade Organisation. The spokesmen expressed a common hope that international legal institutions would intensify their activities to finally regulate relationship between Russia and foreign states in the field of licence production and work out effective instruments to counteract illegal forms of arms trade Source: Rosoboronexport |
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