Pyrion Group
| Private miltary security firm | |
| Industry | Defense Contractor |
| Founded | 1981 |
| Founder | Ross Steinburg |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Global |
Key people | Ross Steinburg (Founder) Jack Silverman (CEO) Cameron Preston (Chairman of the Board) |
| Products | Small Arms, Ground Vehicles, and Aircraft |
| Services | Military and security forces |
| Revenue | Unknown |
| Unknown | |
| $341 Million | |
Number of employees | 25,021 (est. 2014) |
| Divisions | Pyrion Manufacturing Pyrion Security Pyrion Combat Force Pyrion Aerospace Engineering Company |
| Website | www.pyriongroupnb.com |
The Pyrion Group is a private miltary security firm and major Belhavian defense contractor. It was founded by former Imperial Army Colonel Ross Steinburg in 1981 mere days after the passage of the Military Modernization and Reform Act. Many honorably-discharged former military personnel of the Imperial Armed Forces of Belhavia, as well as former law enforcement officers, flocked to the start-up private military-security company.
The firm has attracted controversy over the years, with allegations it is a mercenary outfit, outright corrupt, breaks WC resolutions on military rules of engagement, and that it has shadowy influence over key government and military branches.
Founding
Goods and Services
The company manufactures several lines of small arms, armored vehiciles, and combat aircraft.
It jointed developed the F2 Lioness fighter-craft with the Tippercommer firm Armax Defense International in the late 1970s when it was called Goldburg Defense Industries, which was bought by the defense contractor in 1983 and reorganized and renamed as "Pyrion Aerospace Engineering Company," an aircraft subsidiary firm.
It has a contract to build an order of F2 Lioness fighters for the Imperial Air Force. It produces the Stryker light armored fighting vehicle, among other light and support infantry fighting vehicles.
Public Image and Controversies
Ashizwe Conflicts of the early 1980s
2009 Alleged Rescue of Lyle Greenfield
In 2009, the Pyrion Group was accused by the Kolenomese government of breaking jailed FEBR journalist Lyle Greenfield out of a remote Kolenomese island prison. All parties except Kolenomai have refused to discuss the topic, including Greenfield, his employer The Far East Business Review, or FEBR's owner and publisher, KMG.
However, the Kolenomese government has offered shell casings from (commonly-sold) assault rifles, but of a type Pyrion is known to possess as well as alleged accounts from guards at the prison who recall black-clad armed paramilitaries with an insignia they posit matches Pyrion's symbol for its private military forces.
However, the Imperial Supreme Court of Belhavia, which has original jurisdiction for disputes between sovereign nations (with the Belhavian government representing Pyrion since it is a Belhavian company being sued by a foreign government) threw out the Kolenomese government's claims in their entirety, charging that they lacked standing to sue since none of Kolenomai's evidence was direct or conclusive.