Rapid Fire: 2011-02-03

Rapid Fire: 2011-02-03

* A governmental commission is investigating whether Russia’s GEO-IK-2 satellite – designed to gather gravitational data to improve guidance of ballistic missiles and launched Feb 1/02 aboard a Rokot rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome – is stranded...
Rapid Fire: 2011-02-03

US SOCOM Orders ALQ-211 Helicopter Protection Systems

SOAR MH-60Gs(click to view larger) ITT’s AN/ALQ-211 SIFRC system [PDF] provides detection, analysis and protection against radar-guided threats, including triangulation and GPS geolocation of threats, advance warning that may enable a pilot to route around the...