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05-09-2013, 00:05
CH-47D Chinook for Morocco



Morocco, which has already purchased three “D” models, also is talking about buying three more, and Egypt, which currently flies 18 “D”s, has enquired about buying six more from the US Army as it retires them in the switch to the upgraded “F” aircraft.

http://www.defensenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013309030015

05-09-2013, 00:07


The Moroccan Contingent in Kosovo.

Moroccan Coy Transfer of Authority




Photos published between August 28th - September 2nd 2013.

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07-09-2013, 00:36
KFOR Multinational Battle Group-East

The outgoing Moroccan Coy receives the NATO service medal from Multinational Battle Group - East and the Forward Command Post September 2.






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10-09-2013, 22:38
Boeing looks abroad for CH-47 sales



Boeing is looking to international customers to sell the CH-47F Chinook, including remanufacturing existing D models.

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Nations listed as likely customers are Saudi Arabia - which Boeing is campaigning to buy 24 CH-47s - Morocco (3), Qatar (8 ) and Turkey (8 ). The company also hopes to sell remanufacturing services for older aircraft to the Netherlands (8 ), Singapore (10) and the US Special Operations Command (68 ).
Although this has not been listed, interest has been received from Spain, the United Arab Emirates, Taiwan, Thailand, Egypt and Libya.

Deliveries for existing orders are ongoing in Canada and the UK. So far, three have been delivered to both customers out of their 15-strong orders. Deliveries to Turkey are scheduled to begin in 2015.

Bron: http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/boeing-looks-abroad-for-ch-47-sales-389938/

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Morocco is another key potential market in North Africa, and has discussed purchasing three D model Chinooks, in addition to the three CH-47Ds it bought under a previous contract with the US government.

Bron: http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31935 :libya-among-many-potential-chinook-customers-boeing&catid=35:Aerospace&Itemid=107

22-09-2013, 21:16


Marocco operates HJ-8L

In Service with the moroccan Paratroopers




http://german.china.org.cn/china/2013-05/31/content_28991852.htm

Wiki claims that Marocco operates HJ-8L
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HJ-8#Users

22-09-2013, 21:25
Naval Exercise Chebec 2013



The Chebec 2013 naval exercise is expected to take place from 23 to 30 september 2013. Moroccan and French warships will cooperate during a 7 days trip from Toulon (France) to Casablanca (Morocco) training in diferent fields suchs as anti-ship and anti-aircraft warfare, shooting, cross visits, replenishment operations, search and rescue (SAR) and Cross Deck.

23-09-2013, 01:19
Eindelijk, wanneer gaan we de Canarische Eilanden terugpakken??

02-10-2013, 23:47
Marokkaans-Nederlandse militaire samenwerking

Zijn het volgende overeengekomen:

Artikel 1

1. Veiligheids- en defensiebeleid;
2. Uitwisseling van officiële bezoeken en delegaties op uiteenlopende niveaus;
3. Uitwisseling van beroepsmilitairen en deskundigen op militair gebied;
4. Deelname aan cursussen en stages bij militaire scholen en opleidingscentra;
5. Deelname aan bilaterale trainingsoefeningen;
6. Defensie-industrie;
7. Wetenschap en technologie, onderzoek, ontwikkeling, overdracht en aanschaf van defensiematerieel;
8. Technische samenwerking;
9. Samenwerking op het gebied van vredesoperaties;
10. Samenwerking op het gebied van militaire geschiedenis, archieven en museumkunde;
11. Samenwerking op uiteenlopende, door beide partijen in onderlinge overeenstemming vastgestelde gebieden.

Tekst van de overeenkomst: https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/trb-2013-95.html

02-10-2013, 23:56
De F.A.R en vrede in de wereld






02-10-2013, 23:58
De 18 Marokkaanse contingent van UNOCI beloond voor zijn bijdrage aan de vrede in Ivoorkust





Abidjan-officieren, onderofficieren en manschappen van de 18 Marokkaanse contingent van de operatie van de Verenigde Naties in Ivoorkust (UNOCI) ontving woensdag Duekoue (502 km ten westen van Abidjan), de Verenigde Naties medaille voor hun inzet voor vrede en verzoening in het westen van Ivoorkust.
Een verklaring van UNOCI released vrijdag geeft aan dat de VN-prijs werd uitgereikt aan de ontvangers van de Ruimte commandant van de Force West, brigadegeneraal Anisuzzaman Bhuiyan in aanwezigheid van de Marokkaanse bataljon commandant, kolonel-generaal Personeel Mohammed en Laaroui vertegenwoordigers van lokale overheden.
In een toespraak voor de gelegenheid, de commandant van de Sector West bracht hulde aan de professionaliteit en humanisme Marokkaanse soldaten.
Brigadegeneraal Anisuzzaman Bhuiyan, drong er bij de leden van het Marokkaanse contingent te trots zijn om dit onderscheid, dat de erkenning van het VN-orgaan en al zijn componenten om de belangstelling van de blauwhelmen toewijding weerspiegelt dragen in het uitvoeren van hun missie in een zeer gevoelige regio bekend.
Voor zijn deel, kolonel-generaal Personeel Mohammed Laaroui feliciteerde zijn mannen voor hun opdrachten uitgevoerd met toewijding en verzekerde beschikbaarheid van Marokkaanse blauwhelmen te blijven werken voor de vrede. Hij sprak de hoop uit dat de situatie normaliseert zeker in Ivoorkust.

03-10-2013, 00:08
Nexter NARWHAL 20B CIWS for the RMN FREMM

[video=youtube;HbtNlCW9Odc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbtNlCW9Odc#t=25[/video]

Nexter Systems confirmed that DCNS ordered a single 20B system for the FREMM frigate “Mohammed VI” for the Royal Moroccan Navy.




http://fr.dcnsgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/DCNS-Resultats-CP-240713-Article.jpg


Meer info: http://www.nafomag.com/2013/09/navies-seek-lightweight-remote-weapon.html

03-10-2013, 23:13
Predator drone voor Marokko



The basic Predator-A is used in small numbers by Italy, Morocco and Turkey

Drones Compendium 2013-14
http://www.armada.ch/drones-compendium-2013-14-2/

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PDF
http://www.armada.ch/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/compendium-April-May-2013a.pdf

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http://yu.edu/admissions/events/yunmun/CTC/Morocco-CTC.pdf

03-10-2013, 23:35


Sagem (Safran) tekent overeenkomst met de Marokkaanse overheid om een nieuwe fabriek te bouwen in het land

Sagem (Safran) signs agreement with Moroccan government to construct a new plant in the country
Paris, September 30, 2013

Sagem (Safran) has signed an agreement with the Hassan II Fund to build an industrial facility in Casablanca, Morocco.

The agreement was signed during the inauguration of the Mid Parc industrial park in a ceremony attended by His Royal Highness King Mohammed VI of Morocco, Abdelkader Amara, Moroccan Minister of Industry, Trade and New Technologies, Abdelwahed Kabbaj, President of the Hassan II Fund, Bruno Durand, Sagem Vice President for Production and Nadia Berrada, CEO of Sagem Maroc.

Sagem Maroc will start operations in early October 2013 on a temporary site during the construction work. The new plant, located in the Nouaceur airport zone near Casablanca, will be up and running in September 2014. It entails a total investment of 5 million euros in 2013-2014.

Sagem Maroc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sagem, will specialize in the assembly of mechanical and electronic components for the aviation industry, and it will incorporate assembly operations that are now subcontracted. The new facility will span 4,000 square meters and will have about 150 employees by 2015.

This investment in Sagem Maroc is designed to increase Sagem’s competitiveness, and is part of the company’s modernization drive, also including a new plant in Buchelay, in the greater Paris area. Sagem’s industrial development program aims to ensure the long-term production of critical mechanical parts in France, while also giving Sagem world-class production facilities to meet the competitiveness requirements of today’s global civil aviation market.

Building on this new industrial organization and production sites, Sagem’s offering of actuators and avionics will be even more closely aligned with the requirements of new-generation aircraft, including the A350, C919, KC390 and civil and military transport helicopters.

Bron: http://www.usinenouvelle.com/article/sagem-defense-securite-va-investir-5-millions-d-euros-dans-une-nouvelle-usine-au-maroc.N206499?xtor=RSS-3


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Sagem , a high-tech company of Safran, holds world or European leadership positions in optronics, avionics, electronics and safety-critical software for both civil and military markets. Sagem is the No. 1 company in Europe and No. 3 worldwide for inertial navigation systems (INS) used in air, land and naval applications. It is also the world leader in helicopter flight controls and the European leader in optronics and tactical UAV systems. Operating across the globe through the Safran group, Sagem and its subsidiaries employ 7,500 people in Europe, Southeast Asia and North America. Sagem is the commercial name of the company Sagem Défense Sécurité.
For more information: http://www.sagem-ds.com
- See more at: http://www.sagem-ds.com/spip.php?article1143#sthash.UE2XkIBw.dpuf

12-10-2013, 02:55
Romarm signs EUR 8.5 million defense contract with Morocco



October 2013 - From the Print Edition

Weapons manufacturer Romarm signed an EUR 8.5 million expertise contract with the National Defense Administration of the Kingdom of Morocco in late September, according to Ministry of Economy officials. The contract will run until next spring, providing the charging of full production capacity of Uzina Mecanica Cugir. The agreement also opens up opportunities to provide other products: complete weapons systems and ammunition. With a holding structure, Romarm is the biggest operator in the defense industry with state capital and is under the direct coordination and administration of the Ministry of Economy, in terms of research, development, production and marketing of military products and equipment.



Bron: http://www.thediplomat.ro/articol.php?id=4173

31-10-2013, 01:24
Over Army Objections, Industry and Congress Partner to Keep Abrams Tank Production ‘Hot’



October 2013
By Stew Magnuson
As far as producing Cold War era weapon systems the military says it has enough of, but Congress continues to fund anyway, there is probably no bigger poster child than the Abrams tank.

The past two budget cycles saw a public debate among the Army, the contractor that runs the tank manufacturing plant and lawmakers as to whether taxpayers should foot the bill for keeping a unique industrial base active, or “hot” in manufacturing parlance, in lean times.

Service leaders have simply said they don’t need any more upgraded M1 tanks until a new version comes along in 2017.

It was assumed that foreign military sales would take up the slack at the plant where they are produced, but concerns grew that this may not be the case.

General Dynamics Land Systems, which runs the Army owned Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima, Ohio, argued that to close the facility for up to four years would cost more than $1 billion when the day came to ramp up production again.

Members of Congress, whether they stated it overtly or not, saw jobs ebbing away in their districts. The Abrams industrial base is spread far and wide, and proponents are found in more than just the Ohio delegation. More than 120 lawmakers sent a letter to Army Secretary John M. McHugh in May expressing their disappointment that the service was once again stating that it didn’t intend to fund any more tank upgrades.

Headlines proclaiming that Congress was “forcing the Army to buy tanks it didn’t need” made it into the mainstream press this summer, and the program became the butt of jokes on the satirical Colbert Report television show.

By the end of the summer, it seemed that the industrial base argument had won the day. Congress had allocated $181 million beyond what the Army was requesting.

By Aug. 16, details emerged on how that money would be spent.

In a letter sent to the chairs of the appropriations and authorizing committees, McHugh, said he was “pleased” to submit the congressionally mandated report.

“Though I must reiterate that the Army has no need for additional M1A 2SEPv2 tanks, the production of these tanks does contribute to the mitigation of risk to our industrial base,” McHugh said in the letter.

Paying for unneeded hardware in order to maintain the industrial base and keep production lines hot is a practice that may be more common in the future, one analyst said. The munitions, spy satellite and submarine industries are also making the same argument as budgets tighten and wars wind down. The Bradley fighting vehicle is facing a similar pause.

“I think it’s very likely that we will hear defense contractors in other sectors of the industrial base making these arguments very soon,” said Eric Lindsey, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

Defense spending will be coming down whether the sequester stays in place or not, he said.
“The ground vehicle manufacturers are feeling the pinch especially bad right now because there are so few prospective contracts out there, and the programs they’re pinning their hopes on, like the ground combat vehicle, are on pretty shaky ground. But contractors in other sectors aren’t in much better shape, they’re just slightly behind in the curve,” Lindsey said.

Congress’ shot in the arm for the tank sector includes money for subcontractors as well. Of the $181 million, $114 million will be spent on 12 upgraded tanks, $26 million will go to purchase 48 transmissions and $41 million to buy 86 Block II second-generation forward-looking infrared sensors “to mitigate Abrams FLIR industrial base risks, sustain development and production capability,” an Army report to Congress detailing these outlays said.

“Each vendor brings essential, unique, and in some cases, irreplaceable competencies to the system production process,” the report said.

General Dynamics Land Systems was not subtle in its efforts to convince members of Congress to keep the plant operating uninterrupted.

The Center for Public Integrity in a July 2012 report documented how General Dynamics and its employees donated a steady stream of campaign donations to key lawmakers. The company also hosted the supportabrams.com website with videos of workers and engineers whose jobs would be at risk if a shutdown continued.

Key among the website’s assertions was that a four-year shutdown would cost $1.1 billion to $1.6 billion when the day came to restart the line.

Donald Kotchman, vice president of the armored brigade combat team at General Dynamics Land Systems, said that was the number the company came up with when the Army asked for a report on the state of the industrial base. There are a lot of variables, he said, which is why there is a $500 million spread.

It would depend on the length of the shutdown, and whether the Army would be willing to pay to keep machinery oiled and running periodically, or whether the plant’s components would be completely boxed up and removed.

There would be workers to retrain and hire, and some parts manufacturers may go out of business, he said.

“How would you qualify all of your new suppliers given that you will have lost at least the majority of your suppliers? Not that they would have necessarily gone out of business, but they wouldn’t be producing any Abrams material, and would therefore need to be requalified,” he said.

The Army report listed three key “irreplaceable” subcomponents: Allison transmissions, Honeywell turbine engines and night vision systems for target acquisition produced by DRS Technologies and Raytheon.

Kotchman admitted that these major defense contractors were not at risk of going out of business, but they could still lose their desire and capability to produce these unique systems if there were a prolonged shutdown.

Allison, for example, may no longer see the profit in producing transmissions for vehicles in the 60- to 70-ton class, he said.

The Army has hired an outside consulting firm to study the armored vehicle industrial base, which should let it know which suppliers would be at risk during a turndown in defense spending. That report is due in December.

Lindsey said with major corporations being pressured to maximize profits, they may indeed walk away.

“A point worth emphasizing is that it’s not just about there not being a factory somewhere ready to go,” he said. “The gravest danger might be that we lose the research, engineering and design expertise.”

Although the $1.6 billion restart number was still being touted on the website in September, GDLS spokesman Peter Keating said it is a moot point.

“I don’t think that anybody at this point believes within the [office of the secretary of defense], the Army or Congress that it is wise to do a total U.S. domestic production halt,” he said.

However, there are still risks of production gaps.

The $181 million takes production to the end of 2015. The Army wants to begin new Abrams upgrades in 2017. Kotchman said it is possible with the budget pressures that this could be pushed to 2019.

International sales are expected to fill the gap, but those are not certain.

Ashley Givens, spokesperson for the Program Executive Office for Ground Combat Systems, said “the fleet age for the Abrams tank is low and the Army has determined recapitalization is not required until FY17 in conjunction with the M1A2 SEPv3 production effort,” she said in an email. The Army still believes that foreign military sales will keep the line running until 2017, she added.

GDLS was waiting to hear about an upgrade contract to Saudi Arabia at the end of September. Decisions on other sales to Morocco, Iraq and Egypt were expected in 2012 or 2013, but have been pushed back. According to an Army schedule GDLS provided, the timing of two block buys to Morocco are now listed as “unknown.” A 175 tank buy for Iraq is not expected until July 2015. A contract for 125 upgrade kits for the Egyptian military is an even greater “unknown” with all the turmoil taking place there.

Meer via bron: http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2013/October/Pages/OverArmyObjections,IndustryandCongressPartnertoKee pAbramsTankProduction%E2%80%98Hot%E2%80%99.aspx

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