Santa Bárbara Sistemas is a Spanish defense contractor based in Madrid, integrated under General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS), a business unit of General Dynamics which consolidated in one structure all European subsidiaries of GDLS.[1]
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.[2]
History
editSBS 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, Oviedo, Trubia and A Coruna.
SBS was denationalised by Spain and acquired by General Dynamics Europe in July 2001.[citation needed]
In June 2024 SBS announced the reactivation of its artillery gun barrel manufacturing capacity at Trubia.[3]
Products and programmes
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Weapons and systems
edit- Firearms:
- CETME - Assault rifle
- CETME Ameli - Light machine gun
- CETME L - Assault rifle
- LAG 40 - Automatic grenade launcher
- Artillery:
- Gun turrets:
- TC-25 - Turret
- TC-13 - Turret
- TC-3 - Turret
- TC-7 - Turret
- TC-19 - Turret
- TC-9 - Turret
Munitions and powders
edit- Powders
- Pólvora Dx
- Pólvora Esferoidal
- Munitions
- Artillery
- Small Caliber
- Medium Caliber
- Tank ammunitions
- Explosives
- Cutting and perforating explosives
Armoured vehicles
edit- Tracked Vehicles
- Wheeled Vehicles
- BMR- Vehículo blindado medio de ruedas
- Dragón AFV - Vehículo blindado medio sobre ruedas
- VEC- Vehículo blindado de exploración de caballería
Cooperative programs
edit- 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 program
- Anti-tank Missile Spike: Partial manufacture and assembly line of the missiles acquired by the Spanish Army and the Spanish Marines, under the license of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.
- Civilian Sector
- Aeronautics
- Thermal and surface components
Modernisation programs
edit- Tanks
- Armoured vehicles
References
edit- ^ https://gdels.oklok.es/MilitaryMobility/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Corporate-Presentation-GDELS-01.06.22.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "GDSBS". General Dynamics. Archived from the original on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-03-29.
- ^ "► GDELS-Santa Bárbara Sistemas reactivates its capabilities of artillery gun barrel manufacturing".
External links
edit- Official web site Archived 2017-01-09 at the Wayback Machine (in English)
- Official spanish site Archived 2017-02-02 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- Official german site Archived 2017-02-02 at the Wayback Machine