, SELEX Sistemi Integrati, a Finmeccanica company, signed a 20 million euro contract with the Yemenite Coast Guard for the supply of an integrated surveillance system – VTS (Vessel Traffic System) – to secure the Yemenite coasts.
The system will provide coverage of about 450 kilometres of coasts along the Red Sea and in front of the Eritrean and Somalian coasts and represents a first step of a complete surveillance programme including two further development phases.
The delivery, due to be completed within 2008, includes a national control centre in Sana
China says holds first dual aircraft carrier drills in South China Sea
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