Santa Bárbara Sistemas

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

SBS 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

Weapons and systems

Firearms:
- CETME - Assault rifle
- CETME Ameli - Light machine gun
- CETME L - Assault rifle
- LAG 40 - Automatic grenade launcher
Artillery:
- Santa Bárbara Sistemas 155/52 SIAC
Gun turrets:
- TC-25 - Turret
- TC-13 - Turret
- TC-3 - Turret
- TC-7 - Turret
- TC-19 - Turret
- TC-9 - Turret

Munitions and powders

Powders
- Pólvora Dx
- Pólvora Esferoidal
Munitions
- Artillery
- Small Caliber
- Medium Caliber
- Tank ammunitions
Explosives
- Cutting and perforating explosives

Armoured vehicles

Tracked Vehicles
- Pizarro - Infantry fighting vehicle
- Scout SV
Wheeled Vehicles
- BMR- Vehículo blindado medio de ruedas
- Dragón AFV - Vehículo blindado medio sobre ruedas
- VEC- Vehículo blindado de exploración de caballería

Cooperative programs

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

Tanks
- AMX-30E
- M60 Patton
Armoured vehicles
- BMR 2

References

^ 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

[1] ttps://gdels.oklok.es/MilitaryMobility/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Corporate-Presentation-GDELS-01.06.22.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

[2] "GDSBS". General Dynamics. Archived from the original on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-03-29.

[edr1-3] "► GDELS-Santa Bárbara Sistemas reactivates its capabilities of artillery gun barrel manufacturing".

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