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Outside View: BMD deal lessons -- Part 1
Moscow (UPI) Jul 28, 2008 The United States and the Czech Republic have signed an agreement on the deployment of a missile tracking radar. Theoretically the Czech Parliament could refuse to ratify the document, or the new U.S. administration could change its worldview, or the U.S. Congress could refuse to approve allocations. But the likelihood of any of these things happening is almost zero. The deal is ... more GA-ASI Demonstrates Lynx II Radar At US Army YPG 
Farnborough, UK (SPX) Jul 25, 2008General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has announced that it successfully completed a weeklong series of Lynx(r) II production radar performance flight tests at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Grounds (YPG) test range following radar improvements further boosting performance levels beyond System Development and Demonstration (SDD) requirements. GA-ASI originally developed the synthetic aperture ... more Test Boosts Missile Tracking Radars 
Washington (UPI) Jul 22, 2008 The U.S. Missile Defense Agency Friday carried out what it described as a successful systems test to track an intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with countermeasures with several advanced radars. The target ICBM was fired from Kodiak, Alaska, and was then located and monitored by different tracking systems on land, at sea and on orbiting satellites. They then ... more Raytheon Radars Play Key Role In Missile Defense Test 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Jul 24, 2008Three missile defense radars built by Raytheon performed successfully in the latest flight test conducted by the Missile Defense Agency July 18. "The FTX-03 mission successfully demonstrated the integration of missile defense sensors required to support an interceptor engagement," said Pete Franklin, vice president, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems National and Theater Security Programs ... more Northrop Grumman Completes Testing Of New B-2 Bomber Radar 
Palmdale CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2008Northrop Grumman has successfully completed a battery of tests designed to prove that new radar units developed for the U.S. Air Force's B-2 Radar Modernization Program (RMP) will perform properly under all environmental conditions the aircraft is likely to experience. Northrop Grumman is the Air Force's prime contractor for the B-2 stealth bomber, the flagship of the nation's long range ... more |
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Syracuse NY (SPX) Jul 17, 2008Lockheed Martin has broken ground on a $15 million, 9,600 square foot radar test facility that will provide the company with one of the world's most advanced, large-antenna measurement systems. The new 80' tall structure will be added on to the existing EP-6 building at Lockheed Martin's Radar Systems facility in Syracuse, NY. Once complete in summer 2009, the facility will house one of ... more Raytheon Completes ASTOR Capabilities Testing With UK MoD 
Dallas TX (SPX) Jul 16, 2008Raytheon Systems and the U.K. Ministry of Defence have successfully completed capabilities assurance mission (CAM) testing of the Airborne Stand-Off Radar system. A team from Raytheon and the U.K. Royal Air Force 5 Squadron conducted six CAM tests to assess and prove the operational capabilities of the ASTOR system. The tests built on one another in complexity to demonstrate how the ... more Russian opposition to missile defense unjustified: US general 
Washington (AFP) July 15, 2008A top US general hit out Tuesday against what he said were "increasingly aggressive" statements by Russia against US plans for missile defenses in Europe. Lieutenant General Henry Obering reiterated that the plan to put a radar in the Czech Republic and interceptor missiles in Poland was aimed at countering a growing Iranian missile threat, not at Russia. "When they make increasingly ... more What Should Russia Do To Counter US Missile Defense In Europe 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 15, 2008A U.S. missile defense system in Europe is gradually becoming reality. On July 8, the United States signed an agreement with the Czech Republic to build a missile tracking radar on its territory, and is in discussions with Poland about the deployment of missile interceptors. In this context, it seems appropriate to analyze the military threat posed by the U.S. missile defense deployment. ... more PicoSAR Flying On The Camcopter S-100 UAV 
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Jul 14, 2008Schiebel Elektronische Geraete GmbH and SELEX Galileo are delighted to announce the first flight of a PicoSAR radar-equipped CAMCOPTER S-100 UAV. This adds a compact radar capability to the successful CAMCOPTER S-100 UAV, giving it an all weather, long range ground mapping and moving target indication capability. After a week of installation and integration activities, PicoSAR flew success ... more |
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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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