Obama side-steps Congress on Weapons to Bahrain – deal made via NUROL Turkey (US-BAE Subsidary)

editor: The Armored Personnel Carriers or Armored Personnel Vehicles, President Obama said would be used in Bahrain against “External Threats Only” have appeared in Bahrain, purchased from US BAE Subsidiary NUROL in Turkey. They are, even today, being used extensively against Protesters in the Villages of Bahrain. Phlipn

FNSS Defence Systems Co.
Foundation 1988 Phone 0090 312 497 43 00
Employees 610 Fax 0090 312 497 43 01
General Manager & CEO Nail KURT
E-mail info@fnss.com marketing@fnss.com.tr
Address Pk. 37 06830 Gölbaşı
ANKARA – TURKEY
Web www.fnss.com.tr

FNSS Savunma Sistemleri A.Ş. is a joint venture company established by NUROL Holding of Turkey and BAE Systems Land & Armaments L.P. of USA. FNSS is a leading manufacturer and supplier of tracked and wheeled armored combat vehicles and weapon systems for the Turkish Armed Forces and Allied Armed Forces.

The company was established in 1988 to manufacture 1698 Armored Combat Vehicles (ACV’s) for Turkish Armed Forces under a direct commercial contract (1st package ACV) with the Undersecretariat of Defense Industries (SSM). The facilities situated on a total area of 280.000 square meters in Gölbaşı, Ankara started the production in August 1991. The 1st package ACV contract has successfully been completed in 2000.

410 people work at FNSS’s Ankara facilities as of March 2011. Additional 200 are employed in its operations outside Turkey.

FNSS has a full range of Family of Tracked Armored Combat Vehicles (ACV). The ACV is a combat proven medium weight, low silhouette armored vehicle capable of high mobility in all kinds of terrain and amphibious operations on rivers and lakes. ACV is designed with the necessary mounting provisions to transform the vehicle into various vehicle configurations as per the user requirements. The Advanced Armored Personnel Carrier (AAPC) chassis forms the base vehicle for all other members of the family of vehicles.

Besides manufacturing new vehicles, FNSS is also capable of upgrading and modernizing aged M113 Family of Vehicles to M113A350/300 configurations including improvements to survivability and lethality.

The company has exported an Armored Recovery Vehicle and recently completed the deliveries of upgraded Armored Personnel Carriers to Philippines Armed Forces. FNSS has also modernized and upgraded AIFV and M113 vehicles for Bahrain Defence Force.
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