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    company's Oerlikon Contraves unit was renamed on 1 January 2009 and integrated with Rheinmetall's other air-defence products. Oerlikon Contraves was a Swiss...
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    Naltrexone/bupropion, sold under the brand name Contrave among others, is a fixed-dose combination medication for the management of chronic obesity in...
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    the Rheinmetall subsidiary Contraves Advanced Devices effective 1 July 2010. Rheinmetall retained a 49% share in Contraves Advanced Devices and control...
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    Commons has media related to Contraves Cora. Discovery of Two Historical Computers in Switzerland: Zuse Machine M9 and Contraves Cora and Discovery of Unknown...
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    2014 with 300 planned. The main armament of the vehicle is an Oerlikon Contraves 35 millimeter KDE cannon. Development of the Type 89 began in 1980, with...
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    target within very close range. The system itself is based on Oerlikon Contraves' Skyshield air defence gun system. A MANTIS system consists of six 35...
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    Oerlikon 20 mm cannon (category Oerlikon-Contraves)
    appeared very early in World War I. It was widely produced by Oerlikon Contraves and others, with various models employed by both Allied and Axis forces...
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    Oerlikon GDF (category Oerlikon-Contraves)
    Oerlikon 35 mm twin cannon is a towed anti-aircraft gun made by Oerlikon Contraves (renamed as Rheinmetall Air Defence AG following the merger with Rheinmetall...
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    Barbaros and Yavuz classes. It was developed in the 1980s by Oerlikon Contraves (Rheinmetall Air Defence since 2009) around their Oerlikon KBB gun and...
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    (mentions Contraves as designer and manufacturer of GEODSS during the period Mr. Economou was Group Vice President) ""FedBizOpps request citing Contraves as...
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    Rheinmetall Oerlikon Millennium Gun (category Oerlikon-Contraves)
    system designed by Rheinmetall Air Defence AG (formerly known as Oerlikon Contraves) for mounting on ships. It is based on the 35/1000 revolver gun land-based...
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    Oerlikon Contraves was sold in 1999, the then Oerlikon-Bührle secured the right to continue using the protected name Contraves (as in Contraves Space)....
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    58 is an early production surface-to-air missile system developed by Contraves-Oerlikon in Switzerland from 1947. Test firings were made in Switzerland...
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    at least six ships being hit. Contraves Italiana, an Italian subsidiary of the Swiss armaments company Oerlikon Contraves, began development of a short-ranged...
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    4FA-G1 but is fitted with an Oerlikon Contraves GAD-AOA one-person turret which is armed with a 20 mm Oerlikon Contraves cannon Model 204 GK. This is belt-fed...
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    Cobra was a Swiss/West German anti-tank missile designed by the Oerlikon-Contraves and Bölkow GmbH companies. It entered service with the German Army in...
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    contractor for the first, $100M phase of the project was to be Oerlikon Contraves Canada. The Canadian Forces worked with Defence Research and Development...
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    during World War I, the design's patent was acquired by the Swiss Oerlikon Contraves firm in 1924, with the Third Reich's Ikaria-Werke firm of Berlin using...
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  • Contraves Space was renamed Oerlikon Space. In 2009, RUAG acquired Oerlikon Space and made it RUAG Space. Bally Gerätebauanstalt Balzers Contraves Ikaria...
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    for these five gun mounts are provided by two BEL Shikari (based on the Contraves Seaguard) opto-electronic trackers that operate in the I- and Ka-bands...
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    by the Swiss firm Contraves AG in close cooperation with the German firm of Bölkow, and produced by its Italian subsidiary Contraves Italiana SpA. It entered...
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    Contraves GDF-001 system. 18 of these guns were purchased in 1965 (under the designation Z/FlAK 65) and used with earlier acquired Oerlikon Contraves...
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    from Oerlikon Contraves with radar tracking, upgradeable to support Aspide 2000. Skyguard II – Improved VSHORAD/SHORAD from Oerlikon Contraves with added...
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    gun which was tested but did not enter service. In 1977, a project of Contraves AG Oerlikon-Buehrle, Eidgenoessische Konstruktionswerkstaette and Siemens...
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    bupropion is formulated in combinations including naltrexone/bupropion (Contrave; 8 mg/90 mg extended-release tablets) for obesity and dextromethorphan/bupropion...
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    Skyshield (category Oerlikon-Contraves)
    air defense (SHORAD) system developed by the Swiss corporation Oerlikon Contraves (now a subsidiary of Rheinmetall of Germany). The successor to the Skyguard...
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    RSE Kriens (category Oerlikon-Contraves)
    Kriens, a village located in the canton of Lucerne. From 1959 to 1966, Contraves, along with many other Swiss companies, developed the Kriens, while drawing...
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    fitted with SHORAR (Short-range Anti-aircraft Defence Radar) from Oerlikon Contraves. The MCP is designed to be used with a portable Mistral system, ATLAS...
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    "Askania Werke Rathenow" (Germany), Rheinmetall Air Defence (formerly Contraves AG, Switzerland), and BELOMO (Belarus). PhotoSonics, Inc. (California...
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    artillery, and mortar duties. The 35 mm variety produced by Oerlikon Contraves splits each projectile into 152 tungsten submunitions "that form a cone-shaped...
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