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Selected range
of products
Zurich. Oerlikon Contraves AG
produces cannons, guns, guided
missile systems, ammunition and
fire control units. The company is
also active in the fields of vehiclemounted
weapons, naval air defence
as well as simulation and training
systems. A selection of the
company’s products is given below:
★ Air defence systems produced
include: Skyshield 35, Skyguard/
GDF, Gunstar, Seaguard naval closein
weapons, fire control systems
and Millennium naval gun anti-missile
system.
★ Vehicle-mounted weapons manufactured
by the company feature
various cannons such as the KBA
25 mm automatic cannon, KDE 35
mm automatic cannon and KDA 35
mm automatic belt-fed cannon.
★ Oerlikon Contraves also develops
and produces ammunition for air defence,
vehicle-mounted weapons
and aircraft guns in 20, 23, 25, 27, 30
and 35 mm calibers. Ammunition
types include explosive ammunition
with head or base fuzes, hard-core
ammunition, subcaliber munitions
of the types “fin stabilized” and
“frangible”, and the latest generation
of ammunition with programmable
fuzes. Added to this, the company
offers a wide range of practice
ammunition, often adapted to the
specific needs of the customer.
★ Training systems include Skyguard
air defence mission simulator,
the Feats firing evaluation and training
system and Adams (advanced
driving and maneuvering simulator).
★ Further products: Fieldguard, a fire
control and guidance system for
rocket and gun artillery applications
(Lars), Ranger UAV system, an unmanned
reconnaissance air vehicle,
and Combat Simlas plus, a system
for infantry training allowing also
the identification of soldiers.
The Millennium 35/1000 naval gun
system offers an effective means of
engaging anti-ship missiles with
ranges of up to 2.5 kilometers.
Newsline
FORMER HEAD OF PENTAGON visits Rheinmetall: Caspar Williard Weinberger
(r), Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan between January 1981
and November 1987 recently visited Rheinmetall’s headquarters to hold informatory
talks. Weinberger gave his host Dr. Hans U. Brauner, the former executive board chairman
and new supervisory board chairman of the Rheinmetall group a copy of his book
“The Next War” in which Weinberger and his co-author Peter Schweizer have outlined
a number of conceivable war scenarios which are perfectly realistic in the future.
MJ 333 handed over
to the German Navy
Eckernförde/Bremen. The German
Navy in Eckernförde took delivery of its
new training system MJ 333 punctually
on Monday, 24 November 1999. This
system was developed and built by
STN Atlas Elektronik GmbH, Bremen.
In conjunction with the simulator MJ
332, it now forms part of the advanced
training center of the Naval Weapons
School in Eckernförde to train all crews
of the minehunting fleet.
The two most important milestones
in the MJ 333 conversion program
have therefore been completed by
this high-tech company from North
Germany. Following the acceptance
of the Kulmbach – that was the first
ship to be converted from a mine
countermeasure vessel of the class
343 into a minehunter of the class
333 – and the delivery of the training
system as the second milestone, the
project is now well on the way towards
successful completion.
Peene-Werft GmbH in Wolgast is
the prime-contractor for this ambitious
project, with STN Atlas acting
as the main subcontractor responsible
for essential systems and the integration
of the entire mine hunting
system. The mine hunting sonar sy-
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stem DSQS-11M, the mine hunting
command & control system Takis,
the one-shot mine disposal vehicle
Seafox and the PC-based data exchange
and information system
Daisy are all delivered by STN Atlas.
The training system MJ 333 in
Eckernförde is tailored to the very
latest criteria and comprises two large
packages.
The first training package encompasses
computer-based training
(CBT) and includes the actual system
training for the ships. CBT will consist
in a step-wise partial simulation of
key elements of the mine hunting system
MJ 333 serving to familiarize the
user gradually with the full scope of
the systems.
The second part of the training will
be carried out with equipment identical
with that on board, i.e. the sonar
DSQS-11M, Takis, Seafox and Daisy,
to train the functional links in the
team allowing for the interaction between
the initial mine detection by
the sonar unit, processing of the tactical
situation on the Takis console
and operation of the Seafox mine
disposal vehicle. Operators will get
to know the process and interaction
between complicated systems and
are thus offered a comprehensive
training for their duties on board the
minehunter at a later stage.