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Thomson-CSF is scheduled to finalize the implementation of a cooperation agreement with Aerospatiale, Alcatel Alsthom, and Dassault Industries, in June 1998, a move that will significantly strengthen the company's position as a defense electronics and space contractor. Under the agreement, majority of Thomson-CSF capital, 53.1%, to private investors, reducing the share owned by the French government at the firm to 46.9%. The deal also gives Thomson-CSF Dassault Electronique, which has expertise in electronic warfare, airborne radar, among others, and Alcatel Alsthom's defense and government electronics activities inside and outside of France.
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Bofors Missiles submitted to the FMV, the defense material administration of Sweden, its proposals for the installation into the Swedish Navy's new Visby-class stealth corvettes of its BAMSE air-defense missile system. Bofors Missiles' proposals were submitted as a response to the FMV's Request for Information, which is the initial phase of its planned purchase of an air-defense system for naval applications. The FMV plans to have its second Visby-class vessel batch and possibly its Coastal Artillery's land-based air defense units with the missile-based air-defense system, a first for the Navy of Sweden.
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Ericsson Microwave Electronics in Jun 2000 received two contracts from Sweden's Defense Materiel Administration valued at $60 million and $12 million. Under the contracts, the company will build eight Giraffe Agile Multi-Beam (AMB) 3D air defense radars and six ArtE 740 Giraffe surveillance and fire-control radars for the Swedish armed forces. The Giraffe AMBs and the ArtE 740 radar antennas will be delivered in 2003 and late 2002, respectively.
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