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Rapid Fire 2010-06-04: Unmanned Naval Mine Detection

Rapid Fire 2010-06-04: Unmanned Naval Mine Detection

* USA sends aircraft carrier USS George Washington [CVN-73] to participate in South Korean naval exercises in the Yellow Sea. * Scaling the SUMMIT: Lockheed Martin gets ONR contract to develop software system - known as the Supervision of Unmanned vehicles Mission...

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Swing Yer Partner Round: BAE’s Improved Turret Drive

Swing Yer Partner Round: BAE’s Improved Turret Drive

M1151 w. Frag Kit 7(click to view full) BAE Systems Survivability Systems, Inc. in Fairfield, OH received a $52.7 million firm-fixed-priced requirements contract for 6,000 improved turret drive system retrofit kits, and field service representative support. Note the...

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Greece Alters Its Defense Spending Priorities, Plans

Greece Alters Its Defense Spending Priorities, Plans

Not any time soon...?(click to view full) Greece made an about face on half of its future fighter order, switching from a EUR 4.9 billion contract (about $5.8 billion) for 60 EADS Eurofighters to a roughly $2 billion contract for 30 F-16C/D Block 50/52s as a partial...

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Rapid Fire: 2010-06-03

Rapid Fire: 2010-06-03

* SIRPI launches its 2010 yearbook, which includes its compiled arms sales data. * US arms sales to Taiwan seen as reason behind China's snub of US Defense Secretary Gates. Taiwan's successful frigate corruption lawsuit against Thales seen as reason for coming...

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Rapid Fire: 2010-06-02

Rapid Fire: 2010-06-02

* Australia details of A$ 1.1 billion in multi-year plans for equipment to protect deployed soldiers. * Frost & Sullivan: Military demand for satellite capacity contributes to industry's resurgence. * As the military and intelligence turn to the web and wikis,...

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Australia Upgrading its ASLAV APCs

Australia Upgrading its ASLAV APCs

ASLAV-25, Afghanistan(click to view full) The ASLAV is a variant of General Dynamics Land Systems' LAV-II/LAV-25 wheeled armored vehicles, which are in use by the US Marines, Canadian military and other customers. GD MOWAG markets a similar vehicle as the Piranha...

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Rapid Fire 2010-06-01: Information Superiority

Rapid Fire 2010-06-01: Information Superiority

* US to help South Korea plug gaps in naval defense. * UK coalition government announces new defense ministers. * Project H-XBR: Eurocopter, Brazil open Brazilian center of excellence, hold first EC725 test flight. * DoD's Operationally Responsive Space Office...

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Holographic Sights for SOCOM M4s

Holographic Sights for SOCOM M4s

M4 SOPMOD(click to view full) L-3 Communications subsidiary EOTech, Inc. in Ann Arbor, MI received a $25 million sole-source, firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract, to provide their optical sighting system for U.S. Special Operations...

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Memorial Day 2010

Memorial Day 2010

Honor & Reflect(click to view cartoon) Monday, May 31st is Memorial Day in the USA. DID honors those who have given all of their tomorrows in American military service; we will not be publishing. Readers are urged to peruse the US Department of Defense's Memorial Day...

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