PartnerTech Working with Bofors Defence on Newly Developed System
Bofors Defence has chosen PartnerTech as a principal supplier for its newly developed Excalibur artillery grenade. As part of that arrangement, PartnerTech has just received a pilot series order worth some SEK 30 million over one year. Serial production is slated for 2008.“The order has great long-term significance and value for us,” says PartnerTech CEO Mikael Jonson. Bofors Defence in Karlskoga, Sweden and Raytheon Missile Systems in the United States jointly launched the Excalibur project in December 2002. Satellite and inertial navigation provides the grenade with considerably better