UTI semnează un parteneriat industrial internaţional cu Bumar Grup, Polonia
UTI, prin compania UTI Defense&Security Engineering, a semnat un parteneriat industrial cu Bumar Grup, Polonia, pentru dezvoltarea de produse pentru programe de apărare în România şi Polonia. Programele sunt subscrise conceptului de Smart Defense, utilizând cadrul stabilit de directiva Europeană 2009/CE/81, cât şi prevederile Parteneriatului Strategic încheiat între cele două ţări şi având ca efect implicarea în acest proces a unui număr important de companii din industriile naţionale de apărare şi securitate din România şi Polonia.
În acelaşi timp, parteneriatul va avea ca obiect promovarea de soluţii tehnologice, produse hardware şi software, precum şi transfer de know-how în domeniul securităţii infrastructurilor critice şi a apărării naţionale. Realizările UTI în aceste domenii au fost apreciate de partenerii polonezi şi au fost un factor decisiv pentru semnarea acestui parteneriat.
Parteneriatul vizează, de asemenea, cooperarea pentru promovarea produselor dezvoltate în comun pe pieţele din România şi Polonia, precum şi pe terţe pieţe. În acest context, au fost semnate două acorduri de colaborare – Teaming Agreement – pentru domeniile menţionate anterior.
Parteneriatul a fost semnat luni 5 Septembrie, la Standul Bumar deschis în cadrul târgului internaţional de soluţii pentru domeniul apărării MSPO Kielce Polonia, de către Edward E. Nowak – Preşedinte Bumar Grup și Tiberiu Urdăreanu – Preşedinte UTI, în prezenţa Miniştrilor Afacerilor Externe ai Poloniei, Radoslaw Sikorski, respectiv al României, Teodor Baconschi.
Acest parteneriat confirmă competenţele şi experienţa UTI în domeniul securităţii infrastructurilor critice şi în domeniul apărării naţionale şi va contribui la punerea în practică a prevederilor parteneriatului strategic între România şi Polonia, precum şi la promovarea capabilităţilor industriei româneşti de apărare şi securitate.
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MSPO: Romanian group joins Bumar’s missile defence project
MSPO: Romanian group joins Bumar’s missile defence project
Grzegorz Holdanowicz, JDW Correspondent
Poland’s state-owned Bumar Group and Romanian private defence electronic company UTI have signed a strategic protocol to co-operate in developing an air and missile defence system.
The deal, which was signed at the MSPO exhibition in Kielce, Poland, on 5 September, will be based on Bumar’s multilayered Tarcza Polski (Poland’s Shield) concept, which is being pitched to the Polish Ministry of National Defence (MND). The document was signed by Bumar President Edward Nowak and UTI President Tiberiu Urdareanu in the presence of the two countries’ foreign ministers, Radoslaw Sikorski (Poland) and Teodor Baconschi (Romania).
The agreement also covers co-operation between the companies in the protection of critical infrastructure, such as railway lines and oil pipes.
Tarcza Polski is a joint project between Bumar and MBDA. It would provide Poland with a complex air and missile defence solution based on the country’s command systems, radars and communication systems, as well as its very short-range air defence (VSHORAD) weapons: 23 mm/35 mm guns and Grom/Piorun VSHORAD missiles. It could also include MBDA’s VL MICA short-range surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) and the Aster 30 medium-range SAM.
Should the MND ultimately opt against the MBDA missiles, Bumar Group insists it could absorb any other system into Tarcza Polski. Other options include ex-German Patriot missiles, to be upgraded along with Raytheon and linked with Kongsberg’s Norwegian Advanced SAM System II (NASAMS II), as well as various Israeli proposals.
During MSPO the French Ministry of Defence (MoD) and MBDA presented VL MICA and SAMP/T (with Aster 30) launchers. This was the first presentation of the SAMP/T outside France and is viewed as a sign of official support for MBDA’s activities in Poland.
Romania formally selected and signed a contract for VL MICA land-based launchers in June 2009, though this was later suspended due to Romania’s budget problems.
UTI controls the Romanian defence electronic institute; Jane’s understands it has secured an initial government contract for development of future air and missile defence system.
Under a separate development on the same day, the Tarcza Polski team – Bumar Group, PIT, Radwar and MBDA – were formally joined by ZM Mesko: the leader of the newly created Bumar Amunicja division. ZM Mesko would be responsible for the assembly (or manufacturing if the numbers of missiles justify the transfer of technology) and full in-service support of VL MICA and Aster 30 missiles if selected by Poland.
Jane’s has learnt that Romania has also requested in-country missile manufacturing and maintenance capabilities.
