Military Procurement International Vol. 18, No. 9, May 1, 2008
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PAKISTAN
Spada
2000 air defence systems
On April 16, MBDA Chief Executive Antoine Bouvier
confirmed that MBDA Italia had won a
E415 million (US$656.56 million), five-year
contract from the Pakistan Air
Force to supply 10 batteries of Spada 2000 air defence systems. The contract
became effective in February this year.
Each
Spada 2000 battery includes a 60km-range radar and two firing sections, each
with two sextuple launchers for Aspide 2000 Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAMs). The
SAMs have a maximum intercept range of more than 20km.
In Pakistan, the Spada 2000 system is reported to have beaten competition
from Germany’s Diehl BGT Defence,
the USA’s Raytheon Integrated Defense
Systems and Sweden’s Saab Bofors
Dynamics. ©
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