Under a NATO framework agreement, more than 125,000 Galvion Batlskin Caiman systems have been jointly ordered by NATO countries. (Photo: Galvion)
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has signed a contract for Galvion’s Batlskin Caiman head systems for three new orders for systems along with signing a counter-small UAS (C-sUAS) procurement framework agreement.
The new orders, along with previous orders from Norway, Finland and Sweden, take the total number of helmet systems ordered by NATO countries to more than 125,000, with 10sof thousands more in the pipeline.
A contract for 80,000 Batlskin Caiman head system and accessories was signed in November last year for Special Operation Forces of Norway, Finland and Sweden under the first framework agreement with NSPA which was signed
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