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Afghan Police Training to Get 18 Million Euros from Austria
2012-05-21 Read More...
Austria will give 18 million Euros ($23.6 million) for police training in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country, a top official

Raytheon Wins Phalanx Contract
2012-05-21 Read More...
The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon a contract totaling $57.8 million to overhaul and upgrade 9 Phalanx Close-In Weapon Systems, and manufacture 2 SeaRAM anti-ship missile defense systems.

NGC Demonstrates New Target Location Module
2012-05-18 Read More...
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) has announced the successful demonstration of the company's new Target Location Module (TLM), a key component of the battle-proven, man-portable Lightweight Laser Designator Rangefinder High Accuracy (LLDR

Honeywell’s SmartView to Equip Pilatus PC-12 NG
2012-05-18 Read More...
Honeywell’s SmartView Synthetic Vision System, an aircraft cockpit display technology, has been chosen by Pilatus for its PC-12 NG aircraft equipped with the Primus Apex integrated flight

ATLAS ELEKTRONIK: New Range Record for Torpedoes
2012-05-17 Read More...
ATLAS ELEKTRONIK has increased the reach of its torpedoes substantially, setting a new range record for

LM Demonstrates New Standalone Launching System
2012-05-17 Read More...
Lockheed Martin successfully demonstrated the latest variant of its new launching system that maximizes the use of existing hardware and electronics to reduce the integration costs of weapons by more than

Successful Flight Trials for Saab’s RIGS Head Up Display
2012-05-16 Read More...
Saab’s innovative integrated Head Up Display (HUD) System “RIGS” has completed initial flight trials in

General Dynamics’ New Medium-Caliber Machine Gun
2012-05-16 Read More...
General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products, a business unit of General Dynamics (GD), today unveiled a next-generation Lightweight Medium Machine Gun (LWMMG) at the Joint Armaments Conference in Seattle,

Telephonics' Maritime Radar on MH-60S Helicopter
2012-05-16 Read More...
Telephonics Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation, announced that the U.S. Navy conducted an exercise to demonstrate several Anti Surface Warfare concepts of operation using an MH-60S (Sierra) helicopter in conjunction with a

Lockheed’s 2nd Generation Aegis BMD Intercepts Missile
2012-05-16 Read More...
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin team successfully intercepted a ballistic missile target for the first time, using the second generation of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, known as Aegis BMD

NGC Wins LITENING G4 Targeting Pods Contract
2012-05-15 Read More...
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) has been awarded a delivery order by the Naval Air Systems Command totaling $103 million to deliver LITENING G4 targeting

Iveco’s LMVs Join Russian Military Parade
2012-05-15 Read More...
Iveco’s Light Multirole Vehicles took part in the massive military parade through Red Square in Moscow celebrating the 67th anniversary of Russia’s victory in the Second World

Harris Wins Falcon III Multiband Manpack Radios Order
2012-05-15 Read More...
Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a $75 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract - with an initial delivery order of $8 million - for its Falcon III®

Flight Tests for Saab’s Skeldar Unmanned Helicopter
2012-05-14 Read More...
Saab's unmanned helicopter Skeldar is currently in an intensive period. Flights were recently carried out with a heavy fuel powered version of Skeldar and at the same time, final tests and mature tests of Skeldar are

F-35 to Replace Most US Combat Fleet by 2020
2012-05-14 Read More...
The Pentagon plans to have the F-35 fighter jet replace most of the combat aircraft fleet of the US Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps by the end of the

Boeing & USAF Complete 1st QF-16 Aerial Target Flight
2012-05-14 Read More...
Boeing and the U.S. Air Force completed the first manned flight of the QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target (FSAT) on May 4 at Cecil Field in Jacksonville,

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