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1963
1963 - 0903.PDF
874 FLIGHT International, 6 June 1963 Agate ballistic vehicle (SEREB) SFENA Type 800 gyroscopic horizon PARIS 1963 ... grande serie est assuree par Hispano-Suiza. Elle effectue diverses itudes. fabrications et essais concernant d'autres fusees a iiquides. Elle poursuit les e"tudes, fabrication et essais de pro- pulseurs a poudre de differents types, ainsi que des recherches concernant les techniques avancees de la propulsion. Elle effectue divers travaux pour le Ministere de VAir, le Ministere de la Marine, V ONER A, le Commissariat a I'Energie Atomique. Elle est liee par des accords tech niques et commerciaux avec plusieurs firmes d'Europe et des USA. SEREB (Societe pour 1'Etude et la Realisa tion d'Engins Balistiques), 55 Rue Victor Hugo, Courbevoie (Seine), France. External. Members of this organization include Sud-Aviation, Nord-Aviation, SNECMA, ONERA, Dassault, Matra and SEPR, and its functions are the study, construction and test of ballistic vehicles and space vehicles. The organization is responsible for the following vehicles: Topaze, Agate, Emeraude, Safirand Diamant. The Agate has the most powerful solid-propellant motor yet tested in Europe. Diamant is in effect a prototype of a French military ballistic missile, intended to have a nuclear warhead. (See also "Late News and Amendments".) Les membres de cette organisation, qui etudit engins ballistiques et vehicules spatiaux, comprennent Sud-Aviation, Nord-Aviation, SNECMA, ONERA, Dassault, Matra et SEPR. Ses realisations comprennent Topaze, Agate (la fusee a poudre la plus puissante de I Europe), Emeraude, Safir et Diamant, ce dernier effectivement le prototype d'un missile balistique francais a charge nucleaire. w SESSIA (Societe d'Etude de Souffleries Supersoniques pour 1'Industrie Aeronautique), 4 Rue Galilee, Paris 16e, France. Stand C.14. Design and measurement work, including wind-tunnel testing for school, university and industrial laboratories. Raytheon Hawk (elements exhibited by SETEL) Eludes, essais et mesures pour laboratoires d'universite et industriels. SETEL (Societe Europeenne de Teleguidage), 89 Rue de La Boetie, Paris 8e, France. Stand B.16. When, in 1959, it was announced that agree ment had been reached between Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands to spend about $440m of their own defence funds to build the American Raytheon Hawk air-defence missile system, an industrial organization was established. Named as above, this organization obtained as its first task the execution of the European Hawk programme, acting as European prime con tractor. The other national prime contractors are: Telefunken GmbH, for Germany; Ateliers de Constructions Electriques de Charleroi, for Belgium; Compagnie Francaise Thomson-Houston (CFTH), for France; Societa Finanziaria Meccanica(Finmeccanica), for Italy; N. V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken, for the Netherlands. In all there are some 63 important sub-contractors in the five partici pating European countries, all directly respon sible to their national prime contractors. Production of rocket motors has been con tracted by SETEL to Direction des Poudres, Paris, and Aerochemie, Rome. At Paris are shown a Hawk launcher, together with three missiles and radar. Fonde en 1959, cette societe est devenue maitre d'teuvre en Europe pour la production en serie de I'engin Raytheon Hawk pour les armies francais, beige, allemand, nierlandais et italien. Chefs de programme dans les pays nommes sont CFTH en France, AC EC en Belgique, Telefunken en Allemagne, Philips aux Pays Bas et Finmeccanica en Italie, mais 63 autres societes importantes participent aussi. Une rampe de lancement, trois engins Ha wk et le radar de tir sont exposes. SFENA (Societe Francaise d'Equipements pour la Navigation Aerienne), 25 Rue du Pont, Neuilly-sur-Seine (Seine), France. Stand B.8. Gyros, autopilots and autostabilizers for aircraft, helicopters and missiles; high- precision components for servo-mechanisms; inertial navigation systems; trajectory plotting systems; remote controls; tracking systems. Instruments gyroscopiques. Pilotes auto- matiques et stabilisateurs pour avions, heli- copteres et engins. Composants de haute precision pour servo-micanismes. Navigation par inertie. Trajectographes. Telecommandes. Telemesures. Detection des projectiles.
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