The Minister of National Defense, Radu Miruta, met on Monday with Raymond Piselli, Vice President for International Strategic Operations of the American company Lockheed Martin, in which they discussed, among other things, the development of the defense industry.
According to a press release from the Ministry of Defense sent to AGERPRES, the company is one of Romania's main partners in the field of industrial cooperation and military equipment, and the discussions focused on analyzing the status of the programs for equipping the Romanian Army with high-tech systems produced by the company Lockheed Martin, currently carried out by the Romanian Army, and identifying ways to accelerate the modernization processes of the equipment already in service, as essential aspects for consolidating national defense capabilities.
"Among the successful joint projects underway with the American company Lockheed Martin is the hosting, at the Fetesti air base, of the European F-16 Training Center (the second center of its kind, next to the one in the US), manifested in terms of our country's commitment to offer Romanian pilots and those from NATO partner states, including Ukraine, a training environment at the highest standards, with access to state-of-the-art technical resources and expertise," said the defense minister, quoted in the press release.
The Ministry of Defense also informs that another topic on the agenda of the discussions was the transfer of technology and the development of Romania's defense industry.
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