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德國KMW公司向巴西陸軍交付首批“豹1A5”主戰坦克

 
    [據法國《防務宇航》2009年10月30日報導]    2009年10月28日，德國KMW公司向巴西陸軍交付了第一批220輛“豹1A5”主戰坦克。這些坦克來自德國陸軍庫存，自今年年初開始一直在進行提高和現代化，所有主戰坦克將於2012年交付完畢。
 
    The tanks巴西與德國簽訂了政府間協定來購買此批坦克，2008年12月，德國聯邦防務技術與採購辦公室委託KMW公司作為總承包商升級這些坦克，並安裝巴西的分系統，提供訓練裝備、模擬器、駕駛員訓練車輛和本土技術保障。
 
     “豹1”坦克在1956年在德國陸軍服役，最後一批坦克於2003年退役。儘管如此，該型號坦克仍在國際上處於領先地位，已經進行了多次升級改造，在比利時、智利、希臘、義大利和土耳其服役。
(北方科技資訊研究所  薛亞波)

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KMW Hands Over First Leopard 1A5 Main Battle Tank to Brazilian Army 
 
(Source: Krauss Maffei Wegmann; issued Oct. 29, 2009)
 
 KASSEL, Germany --- On 28 October 2009, Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) handed over the first of 220 LEOPARD 1A5 main battle tanks to the Brazilian army at the company's site in Kassel, Germany.

The tanks come from the reserve stocks of the German army and have been overhauled and modernised since the start of this year. Delivery of all the systems is scheduled by 2012.

Brazil purchased the main battle tanks in the context of a government-to-government agreement with Germany. The Federal Office of Defence Technology and Procurement in its turn commissioned KMW at the end of December 2008 as the general contractor to overhaul the tanks and to develop and install specific Brazilian sub-systems. In addition the contract scope provides the South American country with training equipment, simulators, driver training vehicles and local technical support.

The LEOPARD 1 was introduced to the German Army in 1965. The last main battle tank of this type was decommissioned in Germany in 2003. Irrespective of this, the system is still considered to be a technological leader in its class. It has undergone multiple combat-improvement programs and is in use with countries such as Belgium, Chile, Greece, Italy and Turkey.

Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. KG leads the European market for armoured wheeled and tracked vehicles. At locations in Germany, Greece, the Netherlands and the USA, some 3400 employees manufacture and support a product portfolio ranging from air-transportable, heavily armoured wheeled vehicles (MUNGO, AMPV, DINGO, F2, GFF4 and BOXER) through reconnaissance, anti-aircraft and artillery systems (FENNEK, GEPARD, LeFLaSys, Self-Propelled Howitzer 2000, AGM and DONAR) to heavy battle tanks (LEOPARD 1 and 2), armoured personnel carriers (PUMA) and bridge-laying systems (LEGUAN and PSB2).

In addition, KMW has wide-ranging system competence in the area of civil and military simulation, as well as in command and information systems and remote-controlled gun-carriages with reconnaissance and observation equipment for day and night missions. The armed forces of more than 30 nations worldwide rely on the operational systems by KMW.

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