Santa Bárbara Sistemas is a Spanish

defense contractor A defense contractor is a business organization or individual that provides products or services to a military or intelligence department of a government. Products typically include military or civilian aircraft, ships, vehicles, weaponry, and ...

based in

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

, integrated under General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS), a business unit of General Dynamics which consolidated in one structure all European subsidiaries of GDLS. It is one of the primary suppliers of the Military of Spain and is responsible for the assembly of heavy vehicles such as the Spanish Army's Leopard 2E main battle tank and the Pizarro infantry combat vehicle. The primary lines of business of Santa Bárbara Sistemas are armoured vehicles, special and amphibious vehicles, weapons systems, munitions and missiles, and Research & Development. The company is delivering the prototypes of the UK's Scout SV AFV through General Dynamics in the UK. General Dynamics acquired the company from the Spanish government 25 July 2001.

History

SBS was founded in 1960 by bringing together factories of the Spanish Ministry of Defense under the ''Instituto Nacional de Industria''. These included arsenals in Sevilla,

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, Trubia and A Coruna. SBS was denationalised by Spain and acquired by General Dynamics Europe in July 2001. In June 2024 SBS announced the reactivation of its artillery gun barrel manufacturing capacity at Trubia.

Products and programmes

Weapons and systems

* Firearms: ** CETME - Assault rifle ** CETME Ameli - Light machine gun ** CETME L - Assault rifle ** LAG 40 - Automatic grenade launcher * Artillery: ** Santa Bárbara Sistemas 155/52 SIAC * Gun turrets: ** TC-25 - Turret ** TC-13 - Turret ** TC-3 - Turret ** TC-7 - Turret ** TC-19 - Turret ** TC-9 - Turret

Munitions and powders

* Powders ** Pólvora Dx ** Pólvora Esferoidal * Munitions ** Artillery ** Small Caliber ** Medium Caliber ** Tank ammunitions * Explosives ** Cutting and perforating explosives

Armoured vehicles

* Tracked Vehicles ** Pizarro - Infantry fighting vehicle ** Scout SV * Wheeled Vehicles ** BMR- Vehículo blindado medio de ruedas ** Dragón AFV - Vehículo blindado medio sobre ruedas ** VEC- Vehículo blindado de exploración de caballería

Cooperative programs

* Armoured vehicles ** Leopardo 2E - Tank ** RG-31 Mk5E, local assembly of the units bought by the Spanish Army. ** AMX-30E - Tank * Weapons and systems ** G36E - Assault rifle ** Mauser Mk30 - Automatic cannon ** MG3 - General purpose machine gun ** Heckler & Koch MG4 - Light machine gun * Missiles ** Warhead and other system components **

Meteor A meteor, known colloquially as a shooting star, is a glowing streak of a small body (usually meteoroid) going through Earth's atmosphere, after being heated to incandescence by collisions with air molecules in the upper atmosphere, creating a ...

program **

Anti-tank Missile An anti-tank guided missile (ATGM), anti-tank missile, anti-tank guided weapon (ATGW) or anti-armor guided weapon is a missile guidance, guided missile primarily designed to hit and destroy armoured fighting vehicle, heavily armored military v ...

Spike: Partial manufacture and assembly line of the missiles acquired by the

Spanish Army The Spanish Army () is the terrestrial army of the Spanish Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is one of the oldest Standing army, active armies – dating back to the late 15th century. The Spanish Army has existed ...

and the Spanish Marines, under the license of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. * Civilian Sector ** Aeronautics ** Thermal and surface components

Modernisation programs

* Tanks ** AMX-30E ** M60 Patton * Armoured vehicles ** BMR 2

References

External links

Official web site

Official spanish site

Official german site
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