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Raytheon Wins Contract For Radar-Jamming Variant Of It's Miniature Air Launched Decoy
Tucson AZ (SPX) Apr 11, 2008Raytheon was awarded an $80 million U.S. Air Force contract March 31 for Phase II risk reduction of a radar-jamming variant of its Miniature Air Launched Decoy. MALD is a state-of-the-art, low-cost flight vehicle that is modular, air-launched and programmable. It weighs fewer than 300 pounds and has a range of approximately 500 nautical miles (about 575 statute miles). The new variant ... more Thompson Files: Seeing JSTARS 
Arlington, Va., April 8, 2008 What's wrong with this picture? The U.S. Air Force plans to spend more than $100 billion to buy 2,000 new fighters, but it can't find the money to upgrade a handful of radar planes with better technology for tracking insurgents -- even though it has already spent $1 billion to develop the new technology it now says it can't afford to install. And even though warfighters in Iraq have identified ... more EQ-36 Counterfire Target Acquisition Radar Undergoes Successful Testing 
Syracuse NY (SPX) Apr 11, 2008Syracuse Research Corporation (SRC)'s radar that is the prototype for Lockheed Martin's Enhanced AN/TPQ-36 counter-fire target acquisition (EQ-36) radar recently completed successful performance testing in 360-degree counter-fire mode against mortars and rockets at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona. The prototype radar was developed by SRC under an Army Technology Objective. ... more US forces destroy Qaeda training camp in Iraq 
Baghdad (AFP) April 9, 2008US special forces have destroyed an Al-Qaeda in Iraq training camp and a massive cache of weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, the American military said on Wednesday. The camp was discovered during an operation between April 2 and 5 in the Jazeera desert in central Iraq, a military statement said. The camp was set up at an old radar station which was being used "as an insurgent ... more Thales' I-Master Radar Reports Flight Trial Success 
London, UK (SPX) Apr 08, 2008Thales UK presented the I-Master radar in cooperation with Seabird Aviation at SOFEX 2008. Seabird Aviation and Thales are working together to study the incorporation of the I-Master radar onto the Seabird SB7L-360 Seeker to enable further joint success in approaching a particular segment of the global airborne surveillance market. The flight trials programme started in August 2007 and is ... more |
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Harrisburg PA (SPX) Apr 02, 2008PhantomAlert has announced a limited, free distribution of a breakthrough GPS-based database that locates and warns drivers about stationary red-light and speed cameras as well as traditional speed trap locations. Designed to work with PhantomPlate's new PhantomAlert device, the proprietary database "...is the biggest breakthrough motorists have seen since radar detectors," said Joe Scott, Phantom ... more Type 45 Destroyer Sets Sail For Second Stage Of Sea Trials 
Glasgow, UK (SPX) Apr 02, 2008Daring, the first of class Type 45 Destroyer for the Royal Navy, has set sail to start the second stage of sea trials. The trials will involve extensive testing in open water off the west coast of Scotland and will last for five weeks. The 7350 tonne vessel is on course to complete a series of tests, which will focus specifically on the weapons systems, radar and platform performance and will in ... more Crafty Tricks For Finding Moon Water 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 31, 2008Bright gray, crater-pocked mountains taller than Mount McKinley. Abyssal craters that could swallow several Grand Canyons whole. Recent radar maps of the Moon's southern pole revealed a dramatic, jagged landscape that astronauts could someday call home. But unfortunately, these radar images didn't provide any new information about something that would make living at the lunar pole much easier ... more Russia Postpones Launch Of German Spy Satellite 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 27, 2008The launch of a Russian carrier rocket with a German satellite from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia has been postponed until March 26 due to poor weather, a spokesman for Russia's Space Forces said on Tuesday. The German SAR-Lupe satellite is designed to provide high-resolution radar images to NATO military commanders in Europe. It offers spatial resolution of less than 1 meter, and ... more Ocean May Exist Beneath Titan's Crust 
Laurel MD (ESA) Mar 26, 2008Cassini has discovered evidence that points to the existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon Titan. The findings were made using radar measurements of Titan's rotation. "With its organic dunes, lakes, channels and mountains, Titan has one of the most varied, active and Earth-like surfaces in the solar system," said Ralph Lorenz, lead author of the paper and ... more |
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El Segundo CA (SPX) Mar 18, 2008Raytheon's active electronically scanned array radar team has secured additional wins to advance further the company's AESA radar business. Raytheon will provide a next-production lot of advanced F-15C radar systems to the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard. The contracts with Boeing, worth just in excess of $89.5 million, authorize production of eight APG-63(V)3 AESA radar systems for ... more Raytheon To Operate And Sustain X-Band Radars 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Mar 18, 2008Raytheon has been awarded two task orders worth $28.3 million as part of a Missile Defense Agency indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity contract to operate and sustain the agency's X-Band radars as part of the Consolidated Contractor Logistics Services program. The contract has a potential value of up to $1.9 billion over 10 years. The contract award signifies a long-term partnership be ... more Brazil, Germany To Develop Night-Vision Radar Satellite 
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (XNA) Mar 18, 2008Brazil and Germany have signed an agreement to develop a night-vision radar satellite to observe the Amazon region, the National Space Research Institute said Sunday. The INPE plans to build the Multiple Application Synthetic Aperture Radar with the help of the German Space Center over 18 months, in the second satellite project undertaken by the two nations. The 500-kg satellite ... more Great Splitting Icebergs 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 16, 2008Envisat captures the break up of the massive A53A iceberg located just east of the South Georgia Island (visible at image bottom) in the southern Atlantic Ocean. A huge fissure was spotted running south to north through the berg on 1 March by C-CORE, the Canadian ice-tracking service, while studying satellite images collected from Envisat's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar instrument ... more Japan deploys sixth high-tech Aegis destroyer 
Tokyo (AFP) March 13, 2008Japan put into service Thursday its sixth destroyer equipped with the high-tech Aegis radar system, three weeks after an identical vessel rammed and sank a tuna boat killing two fishermen. The US-developed Aegis system can track incoming missiles by radar. It is seen as Japan's frontline defence against nuclear-armed North Korea. The 7,750-tonne destroyer Ashigara was handed over to the ... more
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