• KNDS France (redirect from Nexter)
    KNDS France (formerly known as Nexter, GIAT Industries or Groupement des Industries de l'Armée de Terre, Army Industries Group) is a French government-owned...
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    LG1 is a modern 105 mm towed howitzer designed and produced by GIAT Industries (now Nexter group) of France. The LG1 howitzer is a 105 mm towed artillery...
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    The GIAT 30 is a series of 30 mm cannon developed to replace the DEFA 550 series weapons on French military aircraft. Introduced in the late 1980s, the...
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    autocannon firing NATO standard 25mm ammunition, designed by Nexter Systems (previously GIAT Industries). The M811 was first shown in June 1983. Its intended...
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    short-range missile. The French company Matra Manurhin Défense (now NEXTER - ex GIAT) produced 120,000 APILAS between 1985 and 2006. Calibre: 112 mm Length...
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    TRF1 (redirect from GIAT-155 TR)
    The TRF1, originally known as GIAT 155 mm Tracté (TR) is a 155mm French towed howitzer produced by Nexter (ex Giat Industries) and used by the French Army...
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    needed] The CAESAR was developed by French defense contractor GIAT Industries (now Nexter Systems) and has been exported to various countries. Units manufactured...
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  • Systems/Santa Bárbara Sistemas 155/52 Howitzer 15 In service  Spain GIAT/Nexter LG-1 Howitzer 20 In service  France M101 Howitzer 75 In service  United...
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    for Mirage Upgrade". Wikimedia Commons has media related to DEFA cannon. Nexter website: DEFA 30M factsheet South Africa Air Force: DEFA cannon factsheet...
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    newly-founded GIAT Industries (now Nexter Group) as part of the rationalization of the French arms industry and restructured several times. A subsidiary (Nexter Mechanics)...
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    naval defence weapon used by the French Navy. It was developed from the GIAT M693, itself derived from Hispano-Suiza HS.820. It fires the same 20×139 mm...
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    French Infantry fighting vehicle designed and manufactured by GIAT Industries (now Nexter Systems) and Renault Trucks Defense (now Arquus) to replace the...
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  • The GIAT Vextra is a prototype French armored vehicle, developed in the early 1990s by GIAT industries, now Nexter Systems, revealed in 1997. It is crewed...
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    Cannon for naval ships. As remote-controlled naval gun on the Nexter Narwhal 20A. GIAT 30 20 mm modèle F2 gun M197 electric cannon THL 20 POD NC 621 SH20...
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    The AMX-10 RC is a French armoured fighting vehicle manufactured by Nexter Systems for armoured reconnaissance purposes. Equipping French cavalry units...
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  • Parabellum) GIATNexter (Groupement des Industries de l'Armée de Terre): Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne (MAS) Machine guns GIAT AA-52 (France...
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    gun/turret. Initially a 1990s design between Hägglunds (BAE Systems) and GIAT (Nexter), using a TML turret, a newer version from 2014, designated a medium...
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    reliable chassis, it was fitted with an oscillating turret built by GIAT Industries (now Nexter) with revolver-type magazines, which were also used on the Austrian...
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    Leclerc tank (redirect from GIAT Leclerc)
    operational in 2011. In 2015, Nexter Systems merged with German Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), maker of the Leopard 2 tank, to form KMW+Nexter Defense Systems (KNDS)...
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    technicals). The Leclerc is the French main battle tank (MBT) built by GIAT, now Nexter of France. It was named in honour of General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque...
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    Beginning in 1993, Mécanique Creusot-Loire became Giat Industries, and in 2006 was renamed Nexter. In 1997 France supplied the last 10 155 mm Mk F3 systems...
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    July 2022. "Nexter a qualifié SHARD, le nouvel obus-flèche de 120mm pour chars de combat". knds.fr. Nexter. Retrieved 2 March 2024. "Nexter Announces 120...
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    2001, weapons production ceased as MAS was absorbed into the Nexter Group. OPTSYS, a Nexter subsidiary specializing in optical equipment and protected vision...
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  • Safran (born from the merger of Snecma and SAGEM), DCNS, Thales, NEXTER SYSTEMS (formerly GIAT), Dassault Aviation (represent by Eric Trappier), Renault Trucks...
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    original MAS 36 receivers were developed on the initiative of Nexter Systems, formerly known as GIAT Industries, at the request of the French Air Force. Development...
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    repair tank for battle tanks over 50 tonnes. Nexter designates it DNG (Dépanneur Nouvelle Génération, "next generation repair"); the French Army uses the...
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    Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2022-12-26. Foss, Christopher F. (12 February 2002). "Giat Industries 155 mm GCT self-propelled gun". Jane's Armour and Artillery 2002–2003...
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  • ASCALON is a French smoothbore 140 mm tank gun of 50 calibers designed by Nexter. This gun is currently mounted on the latest prototype of the EMBT, the...
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  • International is an equal-shares joint venture company between defence companies Nexter and BAE Systems. CTAI is based in Bourges, France, and has been established...
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    and Orano Restructuring of the land armaments sector with the merger of Nexter and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann to form KNDS 2017 Merger between Safran and Zodiac...
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