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The article reports on the selection of Rockwell Collins by Germany to provide ESM systems for the country's F125 frigates. The frigates are intended for special operations and stabilization missions worldwide. Rockwell's CS-3600 radar ESM (R-ESM) system will be installed on the frigates. The deadline for system deliveries was set from 2010 to 2013.

This article presents news items related to defense electronics, as of November 1, 2004. On September 30, 2004, a contract for the supply of 20 Dingo 2 armored personnel carriers was signed in Vienna between Austria's Ministry of Defense and Munich, Germany-based company Krauss-Maffei Wegman. In another development, the new frigate Hamburg, which is destined for the German Navy, was handed over to the German Federal Office of Defence Technology and Procurement on September 24, 2004 by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG.

Reports that the shipbuilder Blohm+Voss GmbH has delivered the first of three new F124 air-defense frigates to Germany's defense procurement agency. Capabilities of the frigates, which are called Sachsen; Blohm+Voss's joint venture partners; Replacement of the German Navy's Lutjens-class 103B destroyers.