On 18 July 2023, OCCAR-EA Director Joachim Sucker and eurosam Managing Director Eva Bruxmeier signed the Amendment of the FSAF-PAAMS Sustainment & Enhancement (S&E) contract for the procurement of new generation ground based air defence systems SAMP/T NG for Italian Air Force. This procurement adds to the SAMP/T NG production ordered in January 2023 for
dependents from the embassy and handful of foreigners. they flew for some 800 miles at about, you know, just tree top level. very low flight. very, very slow in the hercules aircraft. they need to keep it low to avoid any ground fire, make sure they surprise any dangerous elements on the ground. they did not take any fire going in or coming out. special forces were on the ground for less than an hour. and the important thing is that these large number of americans remain in the country. many of them duel nationals. but they are being advised to try to work with the other international organizations and principally nation states that are trying to get their people out. there are now a lot of focus on trying to put road convoys together from khartoum, the 500 miles, 800 kilometers, a very large convoy organized you about the unite the nations. they are running some convoys of
to airlift people out if they have the resources to do that. the u.s. operation to get embassy staff and personnel to where you are, sam, how complicated a mission was it? reporter: well, it s extremely complicated effort, which is why it could only involve a relatively small number of evacuees. what the americans did was taking with them some british members of the special air services, part of the british effort, they flew in with three helicopter helicopters of chinook helicopters via ethiopia where they refueled and then had to fly very, very low, these are relatively slow-moving aircraft, in order to avoid any possibility of ground fire effectively if you are very low you can get over people before they realize you re there. then they spent less than an hour on the ground having pre-positioned the people that they were going to evacuate in an american compound and then taking off and then flying them back to ethiopia.