Closing ceremony of Agile Spirit 2021 exercise

The U.S. and Georgia-led Agile Spirit 2021 military exercise was officially wrapped up at the Orpholo training area near southern town of Akhaltsikhe on August 6.

This is the tenth Agile Spirit exercise hosted by Georgia. Launched in 2011, the drills were an annual U.S. Marine Forces Europe exercise between the U.S. and Georgian forces. But since 2018, it transitioned to a biennial U.S. Army Europe and Africa exercise, to be held on every odd number year.

This year, about 2500 troops from fifteen NATO members and partners – Georgia, the U.S., the UK, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, turkey, Latvia, Estonia, Germany, Azerbaijan, Spain, Canada, Italy and Lithuania – participated in the drills between July 26 – August 6.

Complete system demonstrator for a future airmobile weapon carrier

June 22, 2021 was an important milestone in a challenging project for the Federal Office for Equipment, Information Technology and Use of the Federal Armed Forces (BAAINBw): For the first time, the complete system demonstrator for a future airmobile weapon carrier (GSD LuWa) was presented.

 

The air-mobile weapon carrier is intended to replace the Wiesel 1 systems currently in use after almost thirty years of use. The technical and logistical dependencies of the main components of the hull, drive train and weapon system no longer correspond to the current state of the art. The service life of the Wiesel 1 fleet is currently being extended. This is intended to upgrade the systems until the introduction of the new weapon carrier.

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