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I read somewhere that teh Netherlands is sending a number of its PzHbs 2000 1555mm SPGs to Ukraine. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

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Lord Jim wrote: 26 Apr 2022, 10:09 I read somewhere that teh Netherlands is sending a number of its PzHbs 2000 1555mm SPGs to Ukraine. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
That's huge!!!

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Lord Jim wrote: 26 Apr 2022, 10:09 I read somewhere that teh Netherlands is sending a number of its PzHbs 2000 1555mm SPGs to Ukraine. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
Have definitely seen that myself, article here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastienr ... 92e8089380

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The future LHD/LHA Trieste of the Marina Militare ( Italian Navy ) doing it's sea trials
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AIM 9X for the Italian F 35 fleet

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TSharpe28 wrote: 21 Mar 2022, 04:39 Just wonder how that compares to other winter/snowy camouflage.
There's less of white in it... guess the idea is to look like an exposed bolder, of which there are more in the Alps than in the more gently sloping terrains.

BTW: There's a new uniform set coming out as a collaboration between Nordic countries. There are country specific pieces, too, and have not seen if the winter camos look the same or different between the participating countries.
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Italian Future Naval Nuclear Engine

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Interesting that the NL has gone for the wheeled multi-version family; are their industrial connections or is it totally on the merits of the design (and perhaps price)?
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ArmChairCivvy wrote: 26 Jul 2022, 12:56 Interesting that the NL has gone for the wheeled multi-version family; are their industrial connections or is it totally on the merits of the design (and perhaps price)?
As far as I know there shouldn’t be any industrial connection, the transport family from IVECO is having a quite good success in Europe, so I suppose is merit of the design and price (it’s always a combination of the two)

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New Italian Heavy Weaponry for Ukraine

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That is some seriously capable equipment Italy is sending. The additional PzHBz2000 155mm SPGs, M270 GMLRS, SAMP-T Battery and three Spada SAM Batteries. The overall quantities are not large but similar systems have been or are being sent from Germany, the Netherlands, France amongst others.

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Had not heard of the SAMP-T battery before. Welcome news indeed.

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MBDA Italia
“It was the year of the CAMM”
The signature on November 28 of the CAMM-ER contract for the base programmes of both Italian Army and Air Force boosted the company orders book, more options to be signed in 2023 to complete the missiles requirement, the financing of the latter being quite safe.
“The contract signature brings with it our commitment to set up a second production line for the CAMM, that will be based in Italy” The final integration of the new missile will take place in a dedicated facility in Noceto, in the Padania plain, close to Parma; the area already hosts a military DEMIL establishment that belongs to the Agenzia Industrie Difesa, a non-economic public body supervised by the Ministry of Defence, which also controls numerous military production sites.

MBDA already acquired some export contracts on CAMM missiles, namely Poland for the CAMM and a first, officially undisclosed, launch customer for the naval CAMM-ER, that EDR On-Line understands being Pakistan. These missiles will be the effectors of the Albatros NG system being installed on the four MILGEM-class corvettes of Turkish design under construction, two of them being produced in Pakistan. “We therefore must organise ourselves to increase the overall MBDA production capability for the CAMM,” the second production line being of course part of the game, although also specialised sites such as that of Fusaro, which produces seekers and radomes, must ramp up their capacity.
Looking at Italy, “I am strongly pushing on the Italian Navy to make the CAMM-ER a tri-service missile. There are pros and cons, the CAMM-ER ensuring logistic commonality and a lower acquisition and maintenance cost, and we also foresee a much wider user community. It is however clear that the Aster 15 is already in service with the Navy, which allows logistic commonalities and is optimised for a wider set of targets.”

https://www.edrmagazine.eu/mbda-italia- ... rd-on-2023

"Aster 15 is optimised for a wider set of targets" ???

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