, On February 28, the Estonian government signed the contract for the new Estonian Air Defence System VSHORADMS (Very Short Range Air Defence Missile System). The contract was awarded to MBDA and Saab after an international competition between leading European and US defence companies.
The total contract value for Saab and MBDA is around EUR 60 million.
With this VSHORADMS Estonia will get a modern and well-proven solution for ground based air defence.
The VSHORADMS is based on Mistral missiles from MBDA, Giraffe AMB radars, Command and Control centers and Communication System including NATO links from Saab Microwave Systems. The Estonian solution will be one in a row of system integrations between MISTRAL and Giraffe.
Mikael Johannison, head of Sales for Baltic & Central Europe at Saab Microwave Systems, says: “Estonia
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