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🧵Latest at #FEINDEF: Navantia’s fourth of five Avante 2200 corvettes will be delivered to the #Saudi Royal Navy next week, as the Spanish shipbuilder expects to receive a proposal from the Kingdom by 2024 to build five new multi-mission combat ships.
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2. Navantia was contracted by #SaudiArabia in 2018 to build 5 corvettes based on the Avante 2200 design and adapted to specific requirements, including ability to operate in extreme temperatures. Program, dubbed Alsarawat, called for the units to be delivered on a fast schedule.
3. This meant that the company eventually had to produce a ship every four months, which it has managed to do. While the first 3 vessels were commissioned in #Spain, the final two will be inaugurated in Saudi Arabia.
🧵Latest at #FEINDEF: Airbus Spain is ready to start work on the high-endurance drone SiRTAP for the Spanish and Colombian air forces, saying the first units could be delivered to #Spain by 2026 if the government approves a contract soon.
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2. Officials have confirmed that #Spain is considering procuring a total of 27 SiRTAPs [each of which consists of three aircraft, a ground control station and data reception equipment]. The drone is currently still in a pre-design phase.
3. Both countries signed an MoU for cooperation on the drone in 2019, followed by a formal proposal submitted by Airbus to the Spanish Ministry of Industry in Jan 2021. More recently, the Spanish MoD obtained approval to invest roughly €500 million into the drone project.
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Projet #SMART8000
➡️ #IndoPacific2022 : @Navantia_AU a présenté - pour la 1ière fois - la SMART 8000 (#NS8K ?) de 120 mètres de long, 8 à 10 000 t et dont presque toutes les antennes sont intégrées ou conformes à la coque (photographies 1, 2 : RT @sweeneygov).
Projet #SMART8000
➡️ #IndoPacific2022 : @Navantia_AU a présenté - pour la 1ière fois - la SMART 8000 (#NS8K ?) de 120 mètres de long, 8 à 10 000 t et dont presque toutes les antennes sont intégrées ou conformes à la coque (photographies 1, 2 : RT @sweeneygov).
