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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Rheinmetall wins €280 million in new air defence orders from Asia and the Middle East

second generation patrol vessels littoral combat ship |The Rheinmetall Group has recently booked a number of important air defence contracts. Malaysia, Kuwait and one other Asian country have all ordered air defence hardware and/or services from the Düsseldorf, Germany-based company, with a total value of around €280 million. The orders encompass solutions for ground, air and naval units.

Rheinmetall will be equipping Malaysia with a total of twelve fire control radars (TMX/EO Mk2) and six electro-optical systems (TMEO Mk2) for six new patrol boats.

This is a breakthrough order for a new generation of high-performance systems whose basic components were all developed in-house.

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