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LeFlaSys Finds a New Home.


STN Atlas STN ATLAS Elektronik GmbH was a German defence company, producing sensors and other electronic or computer components such as Radar, Sonar, fire-control systems, simulations. , a Rheinmetall subsidiary, will have delivered the first of its new LeFlaSys air defence systems to the German Bundeswehr by the time these lines are read, with the official roll-out already scheduled for 27 June at the Feldwebel Schmid barracks bar·rack 1  
tr.v. bar·racked, bar·rack·ing, bar·racks
To house (soldiers, for example) in quarters.

n.
1. A building or group of buildings used to house military personnel.
 in Rendsburg -- home to the German Army air defence school. STN Atlas is manufacturing the systems in co-operation with Krauss-Maffei Wegman and Rheinmetall Landsystems -- Rheinmetall MaK also supplies the Wiesel Wie·sel , Torsten Nils Born 1924.

Swedish-born American physiologist. He shared a 1981 Nobel Prize for studies on the organization and function of the brain.
 2 platform vehicle. Having a most unorthodox beginning, the LeFlaSys was designed and developed by STN Atlas on its own initiative; without a development contract or any government financial support. The LeFlaSys (Leichtes Flugabwehrsystem = Light Air Defence System) was designed specifically for Nato rapid reaction forces to protect their air-transportable units, military facilities and mission-essential systems from fixed-wing aircraft "Airplane" and "Aeroplane" redirect here. For other uses, see Airplane (disambiguation).
A fixed-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air craft where movement of the wings in relation to the aircraft is not used to generate lift.
 and helicopter threats. The LeFlaSys consists of the reconnaissance This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.
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, command and fire control Wiesel, the Ozelot anti-aircraft missile platform, the lightweight air defence interface vehicle and associated repair and maintenance equipment.

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