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During the second week of June, Oto Melara, a Finmeccanica company, together with the Italian Navy, successfully performed very important firing trials with the Strales system on board the Foscari ship.

OTO Melara, a Finmeccanica company, has signed today in Paris, a Memorandum of Understanding with TAWAZUN for the marketing and production of the DRACO system, officially presented yesterday at the Eurosatory Exhibition in Paris.

The Boeing Company has signed a contract with Italian defense company Oto Melara to co-produce the Small Diameter Bomb Increment I (SDB I) for the Italian Air Force.

The turrets will equip the Lince vehicles employed in Afghanistan.

On 26^th May 2009, Oto Melara and the Israeli Rafael, have performed very important launching trials necessary for the industrial validation of the weapon system.

In February, Mexican Navy confirmed the acquisition of a 12.7 mm HITROLE-N turret and relating logistics.

Within the Strales program, Oto Melara has successfully performed very important firing trials of the DART at the Poligono Interforze Salto di Quirra (PISQ).

The Iveco Fiat-Oto Melara consortium delivered to the Italian Army the first Medium Armoured Vehicle “Freccia".

The Templar knights were strange characters indeed: half monks, half soldiers, ascetics and bankers, individually poor yet extremely rich as an order, they originally set out to win back Jerusalem and the Holy Sepulchre for Christianity.

Organised in conjunction with the Sant’Anna Post-graduate School and Celin Avio, Oto officially launched and presented its new products by way of a workshop on mobile robotics held at its Gustavo Stefanini Centre.

Today DOOSAN Infracore and Oto Melara have signed a marketing cooperation agreement for the joint commercialization and coproduction of the full spectrum of turrets inclusive of the 105mm HitFact anti-tank turret for medium size wheeled and tracked vehicles.

Today PT. PINDAD PERSEO of Indonesia and Oto Melara Italy have signed a memorandum of understanding for the joint commercialization and coproduction for the 105mm Pack Howitzer and small calibre artillery turrets for medium size wheeled and tracked vehicles.

Oto Melara and the Italian Army sign an agreement to offer job training courses to soldiers released from Military Service.

On Thursday, November 8 2007, Adm. Franco Paoli, Commander in Chief of the Northern Tyrrhenian Naval Department, visited the Oto Melara plant of La Spezia.

Oto Melara, a company whose activities are increasingly focused on protection and security, received one of the awards

Oto Melara achieves another important success in the field of naval guns.

The Iveco Fiat-Oto Melara consortium has delivered the first PzH 2000 Self Propelled Howitzer to the Italian Army