Serval — Women in defence

Based in Paris, FRANCE, WOMBAT is a blog by CHRISTINA MACKENZIE. Her posts PORTRAY WOMEN THE WORLD OVER WHO'VE CHOSEN TO SERVE THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES IN THE DEFENCE SECTOR.

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Feb 28

Feb 28 Lydia Zebian

Lydia is proof incarnate that being a mechanical engineer is not the boring job many might imagine. Today this elegant, ambitious young woman is the programme and development director of the defence business unit at Texelis, where she’s responsible for the Serval programme, the 4×4 multi-role armoured vehicle the company is building for the French Army with its partner Nexter…

Jan 24

Jan 24 Nathalie Cottin-Roux

Christina Mackenzie

Land armaments industry

Nathalie is an engineer, a welding expert at Nexter Systems, the French state-owned manufacturer of armoured vehicles and the iconic Leclerc tank, where she is responsible for the mechanically welded structures skills centre. “I find it gratifying that our work is to protect the military. It’s our primary goal,” she says during our video conversation…