a 7.90 D European & Security ES & Defence 8/2017 International Security and Defence Journal COUNTRY FOCUS: HUNGARY ISSN 1617-7983 • www.euro-sd.com • December 2017 Night Vision EU in Action Conventional Submarines European military and civilian missions and Strong demand is being spurred on by new security operations challenges Politics · Armed Forces · Procurement · Technology C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Editorial Much Ado About Little athos, kitsch and euphoric resolutions mood. Citizens expect politicians to invest Phave always been part of the style rep- more in internal and external security and ertoire of European summits. If they were to tackle cross-border problems in cross- formerly reserved for the real landmarks border cooperation. Who, if not the EU, of European integration, their use today should be able to provide a suitable frame- is inflationary. Since the outbreak of the work for this? financial crisis more than a decade ago, the And yet, prudence is required. Actionism European Union has been working on a is not a concept yet. On the contrary. To steadily growing number of problems that it advance this or that project in an uncon- is failing to master. Wherever the attempted trolled fashion on the basis of current op- solutions lack the power of persuasion, at portunities and interests can very quickly least their staging and full-bodied rhetoric lead to a veritable waste of resources. are supposed to convey confidence. If you Moreover, PESCO is not a new brilliant summarise all the important courses that idea, but an instrument provided for by have recently been set in this way, the ques- the Treaty of Lisbon a decade ago. It does tion arises as to whether there is still any not have to be interpreted as an expres- policy field in which a secure and prosperous sion of lethargy or neglect of duty that this future for Europeans has not long since been possibility has not yet been used. Several heralded. Unfortunately, the citizens of our bilateral or multinational collaborations continent are too stubborn to be infected by have been launched even without this this optimism. Far too many of them have framework. Such "coalitions of the willing" already said goodbye internally to the EU. In do not necessarily gain in flexibility and ef- some Member States this mood is so strong ficiency if they are embedded in the larger that it shapes the government's course. To- context of the EU. This applies in particular day's task is more than management of cur- to the very extensive cooperation agreed rent crises. The EU itself, as we know it today by France and Germany in July 2017. Both at any rate, is undergoing a test. countries together account for more than In such a situation, it may seem rather 50 percent of the defence budget of all 23 ambitious to want to open a new chapter PESCO nations. Their bilateral collaboration in European integration in a field that has could very quickly be deprived of any mo- hitherto been more in the background. mentum if it becomes a kind of EU project On 13 November, the foreign and defence through the PESCO backdoor. ministers of 23 of the current 28 EU Mem- But above all, it is important to ensure that ber States agreed on a comprehensive everything the Europeans do fits into the package of commitments and measures plans of NATO and in the end those dupli- intended to make pragmatic progress cate structures they have solemnly sworn towards a security union under what is to avoid do not take shape. Hitherto, you called Permanent Structured Cooperation could count on the British to pay attention (PESCO). At the beginning of December, to this. Since they are also saying goodbye the first projects were identified in which to the EU's Common Security and Defence cooperation was to be promoted in differ- Policy (CSDP) with Brexit, this voice of trans- ent constellations. atlantic reason has fallen silent. France does Just a few years ago, it would have been not want to raise it and Germany cannot. necessary to explain laboriously to the The poor media image of the Trump admin- public why the EU as civilian power sud- istration makes it easy to use anti-American denly also wanted to gain military weight. resentment in order to pass off Europe go- Today this is different. Citizens are worried ing its separate way as taking on responsi- and unsettled. They are aware how precar- bility for itself. The security of our continent ious the security situation is in many crisis- is not served thereby. It will continue to be hit regions on the southern and eastern guaranteed in the future only by the tried periphery of their continent. The terrorist and tested alliance with the Americans threat has long since become daily routine (and the British). for them. Surveys show a clear change of Peter Bossdorf December 2017 · European Security & Defence 1 Content Country Focus: Hungary Georgian Military Modernisation (Photo: NATO) (Photo: via Miroslaw Gyürösi) Security and defence policy – armed forces – It is not yet clear whether the current reform will be procurement programmes Pages 30-41 more successful than the previous ones. Page 42 SECURITY POLICY COUNTRY FOCUS: HUNGARY 12 Russian-Iranian Relations: A Mixed Bag 30 Securing Sovereignty and Integrity Eugene Kogan Hungarian Security Policy within the Framework of NATO and EU 17 Making Sense of the Shanghai Thomas Bauer Cooperation Organisation Stephen Blank 34 Security and Defence Policy of Hungary General Tibor Benk 22 Azerbaijan - Gateway to Central Asia Korhan Özkilinc 38 Hungary Begins Long-Awaited Modernisation 26 The Iranian Shadow over the Zord Gábor László Middle East and Beyond Bill Roy ARMED FORCES Index of Advertisers 42 Georgian Military Modernisation: CONTROP 73 Two Steps Forward, One Step Back Eugene Kogan Ceska zbrojovka a.s. (CZ) 3rd cover 48 XIth Regional Seapower Symposium Enforce Tac 31 Guy Toremans EXPAL 59 ARMAMENT & TECHNOLOGY German Naval Yards 79 52 Conventional Submarines – Global Developments Hagenuk Marinekommunikation 77 Conrad Waters Hirtenberger Defence Systems 61 59 Mortar Ammunition: New Weapon – New Ammunition International Armoured Vehicles Forum 83 Michael Johnsson MTU 4th cover 66 Night Vision and Night Combat Capabilities Miltech Hellas 3 Waldemar Geiger NIMR 2nd cover 71 Getting the Picture – The Individual Weapon Sight Sector SOFEX 33 David Saw thyssenkrupp 53 75 Milipol In Sight David Saw Underwater Defence & Security 55 U.T.SEC 29 2 European Security & Defence · December 2017 Maritime Defence Industry in Germany VIEWPOINT FROM … 16 Tbilisi Beka Kiria 25 Paris Denys Kolesnyk (Photo: German Naval Yards) 51 Copenhagen J. Bo Leimand THE BRUSSELS BACKDROP 46 The EU in Action: European Military and Shipyards and their domestic suppliers have a Civilian Missions and Operations reputation for high-quality special ships. Page 76 Joris Verbeurgt INDUSTRY & MARKETS COLUMNS 76 The Development of the Maritime Defence Industry in Germany 1 Editorial Peter Grundmann Periscope 81 "We are designed to be a 4 European player." 45 Masthead Interview with the Co-CEOs of the KNDS Group: Frank Haun, CEO of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH 90 Firms & Faces & Co. KG, and Stéphane Mayer, Chairman and CEO of Nexter Group. 91 Preview IAV Special 84 For the Security of the Country Peter Jenni 96 Preview Issue 01/2018 86 Romanian Procurement Programmes: Wish List versus (Sober) Reality Eugene Kogan December 2017 · European Security & Defence眀眀眀⸀洀3椀氀琀攀挀栀⸀最爀 礀漀甀爀 琀栀攀爀洀愀氀 瀀漀椀渀琀 漀昀 瘀椀攀眀 Periscope Drone Surveillance fitted (“plug and play”) into Airbus Heli- for 12 Hours copter’s military platforms such as H125M, (ck) The French company Aero Surveillance H145M and H225M for operations where Photo: BAE introduced a tethered option for its Quad equipment flexibility is a vital criterion. It is and Octocopter ASV 30 400 and 800 series designed to meet the requirements of de- UAVs, designed for Police and Security ap- fence agencies seeking light attack mission plications. The tethered system is capable capabilities. The H145M is a military heli- of hovering at up to 100 metres altitude copter derived from the H145, designed for arduous Special Forces and police missions: the H145 fleet has flown more than 80,000 flight hours. With a maximum take-off weight of 3.7 tonnes the H145M can be operational use: the trials, conducted by used for armed reconnaissance, ground fire BAE Systems in Warton, Lancashire, UK, support, anti-tank warfare, escort, tactical form part of a programme of new enhance- Photo: AeroSurveillance transport, MEDEVAC and CASEVAC. Cus- ments which will be rolled out across the tomers for the H145M include Germany, Royal Air Force (RAF) to bolster TYPHOON’s Serbia and Thailand. combat capability. BRIMSTONE will provide TYPHOON with a low collateral, pin-point New 2.75” Rocket accurate air-to-surface weapon, enhanc- for up to 12 hours at a time, providing Launchers ing the aircraft’s swing-role performance. persistent surveillance solutions and 360° (ck) Arnold Defense, a St Louis-based man- The BRIMSTONE missile is now available for full motion video by day and night. The ufacturer of 2.75” rocket launchers, pre- further evaluation by the RAF. BRIMSTONE cable link enables the system to provide sented its new, ultra-light LWL-XII and the is part of the Phase 3 Enhancement (P3E) virtually unlimited aerial surveillance at a combat-proven M260 2.75”/70mm weap- package which also includes mission system reasonable price. The ASV 30 Quadcopter and sensor upgrades. P3E is the final part of with four or Octocopter with eight rotors Project Centurion – the programme to en- can also operate in free mode for up to sure a smooth transition of TORNADO GR4 60 minutes.