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Raytheon Delivers 100th AESA Radar For Super Hornets And Growlers
El Segundo CA (SPX) Jul 09, 2008Raytheon has delivered its 100th APG-79 active electronically scanned array radar system to Boeing and the U.S. Navy for use on F/A-18 and EA-18G aircraft. The company marked the occasion with a ceremony July 1 that attracted senior customers and local dignitaries to its Consolidated Manufacturing Center in Forest, Miss. "Our 100th delivery of this remarkable system testifies eloquent ... more Northrop Grumman Introduces Desktop Marine Radar 
Charlottesville VA (SPX) Jul 09, 2008Northrop Grumman's Sperry Marine business unit has recently unveiled a new integrated desktop marine radar designed to meet the latest International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) performance standards. The new Sperry Marine VisionMaster FT 250 is designed to comply with the IEC 62388 CAT 2 technical requirements and meets the International Maritime Organization (IMO) carriage requirement ... more Poland, US fail to make breakthrough on missile defense 
Washington (AFP) July 7, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski failed to seal a deal at last-minute talks here Monday about US plans to base missile interceptors in Poland. Rice had been hoping to clinch a deal before leaving for Prague later Monday to sign a related agreement for a missile-tracking radar in the Czech Republic, her spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters ... more Prague ready to sign US radar deal in face of hostile public opinion 
Prague (AFP) July 7, 2008The Czech government is preparing to sign an agreement in principle over the deployment of part of a US anti-missile shield on its soil in the face of strong public opposition. The fruit of months of negotiations, the agreement, covering the installation of a tracking radar which would be twinned with an anti-missile silo, probably in neighbouring Poland, should be signed Tuesday at 1300 GMT ... more Top US official to launch anti-missile defence meet 
Prague (AFP) July 7, 2008The head of the United States Missile Defense Agency (MDA) will Tuesday inaugurate a global conference on missile defence in Prague, the US embassy said. Henry Obering's visit will coincide with that of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is scheduled to sign an accord finalising the setting up of a radar base on Czech soil as part of a greater US missile shield. The fifth Internati ... more |
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Atlanta GA (SPX) Jul 02, 2008Advancements in capability and reductions in pricing have dramatically increased the incorporation of marine and ground-based radar systems into perimeter, coastal, and border security applications. While these radar systems can effectively detect and locate potential threats, such solutions don't allow security operators to visually inspect objects that have triggered an alarm. To address ... more Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Radar Successful In Missile Defense Test 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Jul 01, 2008The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) radar built by Raytheon performed successfully in the latest integrated flight test conducted by the Missile Defense Agency and THAAD prime contractor, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii June 25. The test marked a significant "first" for the THAAD program: the intercept of a "mid-endoatmospheric" ... more US Marines, Northrop Grumman Team Complete G/ATOR Preliminary Design Review 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 01, 2008The U.S. Marine Corps' new Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) moved an important step closer to production with the successful conclusion of the formal Preliminary Design Review (PDR) at Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems sector headquarters. G/ATOR is a highly mobile system intended to fully support the Marine Corps' expeditionary warfare requirements. The new multi-mission ... more Australia Sees Successful Upgrades To FA-18 Hornet Capability 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jul 01, 2008Minister for Defence, the Hon Joel Fitzgibbon MP has announced that Australia's air capability has been further enhanced by the successful trialling of a new radar warning receiver and acceptance by Air Force of the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) 'Smart Bomb'. The first production configured F/A-18 Hornet fitted with a new Radar Warning Receiver has successfully flown at RAAF ... more SKorea to buy radar to detect NKorea missiles 
Seoul (AFP) June 26, 2008South Korea's defence ministry on Thursday approved a project to buy an advanced radar system capable of detecting North Korean ballistic missiles, officials said. The green light came at a meeting between Defence Minister Lee Sang-Hee and senior military policymakers and procurement officials, Lee's office said. The radar project is part of Seoul's efforts to build its own missile ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Jun 19, 2008 U.S. President George W. Bush's missile defenses are dying with his presidency, but they might not rest in peace. The Czech government is on the verge of a crisis. Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said his Cabinet might collapse in the fall. He admitted the Cabinet lost a firm majority in Parliament over the possible deployment of a high-frequency radar of the U.S. third positioning ... more Lockheed Martin's Littoral Combat Ship Combat Management System Readies For Sea 
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Jun 20, 2008Lockheed Martin has successfully integrated key shipboard combat system components aboard the U.S. Navy's first Littoral Combat Ship, PCU Freedom, with COMBATSS-21, the ship's core combat management system. Key components integrated with COMBATSS-21 include the radar, gun weapon system, missile launcher, decoy launcher, and electronic warfare system. The successful integration and ... more Jason-1 Will Make It's 30,000th Orbit 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 20, 2008The Jason-1 spacecraft will make its 30,000th science orbit this week. Revolution number 30,000 will begin at 10:27 UTC (3:27 a.m. PDT) on June 14th, 2008 and will be completed at 12:19 UTC (5:19 a.m. PDT). From its vantage point 1,336 kilometers (830 miles) above Earth, Jason-1 uses its radar altimeter to precisely measure the topography of the ocean surface. Jason-1 was launched December ... more China improving air drop ability after quake setbacks: state media 
Beijing (AFP) June 19, 2008The Chinese military has begun drills to improve its ability to parachute into disaster areas after its troops struggled during last month's earthquake, state media reported. The training, the first of its kind in China, began Wednesday and involved eight large aircraft delivering soldiers, vehicles, radar and other equipment, the Xinhua news agency said. The People's Liberation Army has ... more Space Radar To Improve Mining Safety 
Noordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Jun 20, 2008Advanced ground penetration radar, originally developed to investigate the soil structure on the Moon and other planets on ESA planetary missions, is now being used in Canadian mines to spot hidden cracks and weaknesses in mine roofs. Using space technology developed for ESA for the special ground penetration radar GINGER (Guidance and Into-the-Ground Exploration Radar) that will be ... more
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