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New Zealand’s ANZAC Frigates Getting Combat Upgrades

New Zealand’s ANZAC Frigates Getting Combat Upgrades

by | Dec 4, 2014 | Australia & S. Pacific, Canada, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Intent, Electronics - General, Eng. Control Systems, Lockheed Martin, MBDA, Missiles - Surface-Air, Other Corporation, Protective Systems - Naval, Radars, Surface Ships - Combat, Thales

NZ ANZACs(click to view full) It’s time to modernize New Zealand’s only serious combat ships. New Zealand bought 2 ANZAC frigates in the 1990s, as a cooperative venture with Australia using the MEKO 100 German design. F77 Te Kaha was commissioned in 1996,...
New Zealand’s ANZAC Frigates Getting Combat Upgrades

ASTROS 2020 MLRS: Brazil’s Industrial Investment in Precision Strike

by | Dec 4, 2014 | Brazil, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Intent, Industry & Trends, Issues - Political, Lockheed Martin, Middle East - Other, Missiles - Precision Attack, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Policy - Procurement, R&D - Contracted, Rockets, Spotlight articles, Tanks & Mechanized, USA

Saudi ASTROS-II(click to view full) At the end of August 2011, Brazil’s Ministerio da Defesa announced the beginning of a BRL 1.09 billion (about $685 million) project to update Avibras’ ASTROS (Artillery SaTuration ROcket System) multiple rocket launcher...
New Zealand’s ANZAC Frigates Getting Combat Upgrades

DARPA Seeks Better Targeting Support for Tactical Airborne Surveillance and Strike

by | Dec 4, 2014 | Airbus, Asia - Central, Australia & S. Pacific, Daily Rapid Fire, DARPA, Germany, India, Israel, Issues - International, Legal, Logistics Innovations, Pre-RFP, Russia, Scandals & Investigations, UAVs, USA

* DARPA is organizing a proposer’s day [FBO] on December 16 in Arlington, VA, to discuss the Target Recognition and Adaption in Contested Environment (TRACE), a program meant to “develop algorithms and techniques that rapidly and accurately identify...