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Saab awarded $2.4M military training equipment contract in Bulgaria

Mon, May 07 2012 16:31 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

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Saab awarded $2.4M military training equipment contract in Bulgaria

A mobile DITS field unit
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Swedish aerospace and defence firm Saab has been awarded a $2.4 million contract to deliver its deployable instrumented training system (DITS) for the Bulgarian Army, the company said in a statement.

The contract includes the delivery of a mechanised company sized system with 95 infantry sets and 10 BMP vehicles kits to be fielded in 2012. The funding is provided under the foreign military sales (FMS) programme of the US army's Program Executive Office of Simulation, Training and Instrumentation.

Saab's DITS has been used by the US army in Europe since 2001 and was deployed in Bulgaria for joint exercises in 2004, 2006 and 2008. It interfaces with the Joint Conflict / Combat And Tactical Simulation (JCATS) system already fielded at the Bulgarian National Center for Modeling and Simulation.

"Saab Training USA is able to support our allies with the same Saab developed training systems used by the US forces around the world. We have been fielding training systems for the FMS programme for more than a decade," the president of Saab Training USA, Lars Borgwing, said in the statement.

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