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Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Test Successful
2009-08-01 Read More...In conjunction with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Pacific Fleet ships and crews successfully conducted the latest Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) at-sea firing event on July 30. During this event, entitled Stellar Avenger, the Aegis
General Dynamics Awarded $10 Million Contract to Upgrade Submarine Weapons Control System
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded a $10.2 million first-year contract of a multi-year award by the U.S. Navy to provide upgrades to the submarine weapons control system
MBDA Inc. Demonstrates Guidance and Control of Semi-Active Laser Guided Zuni Rocket
MBDA Inc. today announced the successful demonstration of a Semi-Active Laser Guided Zuni rocket at the Navy’s test facilities at China Lake, CA. utilizing the WGU-58/B Guidance and Control System developed in cooperation with the Naval Air Warfare
United States Offers India to Lease 12 Surveillance Helicopters
In the midst of the Indian Defence Ministry scurrying for aerial surveillance aircraft, speedboats and vessels for coastal security, the U.S. has offered 12 helicopters on lease to India for more effective surveillance of the Indian coastline,
Order for 15 ARAVISs as part of the defence section of the economy stimulation plan
Hervé Morin, the Minister for Defence, is pleased about the order for 15 ARAVIS armoured vehicles placed as part of the defence section of the economy stimulation plan. That section of the economy stimulation plan amounts to 2.4 billion euros and
Thales’s DISCUS sensor and surveillance system selected by Canadian army
Ottawa, June 3, 2009 - Thales has been awarded a $12.5 million Persistence Surveillance Towers System contract by the Government of Canada. The Thales Deployable Integrated Sensors for CompoUnd Security (DISCUS) system, will provide the Canadian
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