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November 08, 2013

Israel drone manufacturing booms
Beijing (XNA) Nov 06, 2013
The Drone market is booming worldwide, moving so quickly that aviation experts predict unmanned aerial vehicle sales will soon take the largest market share of all aircraft sales. The front-running drone exporter is, surprisingly, not the U.S., it's Israel. In the world of new age surveillance and cutting-edge military technology, UAVs are the path of the future unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, outfitted with advanced radar, cameras, satellite communications, infrared sensors and missiles can ... read more

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Northrop Grumman to Supply AN/SPQ-9B Radars for Three US Navy Vessels Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy to supply three AN/SPQ-9B radar systems for amphibious and Arleigh Burke class ships. Under the $20.4 million contract award, Nort ... more		French government scrambles to contain ecotax revolt The French government scrambled Tuesday to contain anger over a proposed environmental tax as protesters continued to destroy radars set up to help collect the levy, in a revolt that shows no sign of abating. ... more		Northrop Grumman Receives Contract to Retrofit Joint STARS Fleet The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $43 million contract to retrofit the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) aircraft, trainers and laboratories. The contr ... more
				Astrium delivers microwave radiometer for the Sentinel-3A satellite Astrium, the world's second ranking space company, has delivered the proto-flight model (PFM) of the microwave radiometer (MWR) (an instrument for the European Space Agency's (ESA) Sentinel-3A envir ... more		Upgrades boost ballistic missile defense radar's performance to protect against missile raid Ballistic missile raids - large numbers of simultaneously launched weapons - may soon have a tougher time penetrating allied air defenses. Raytheon has started upgrading the AN/TPY-2 ballistic mis ... more

Dolphins inspire new radar system to detect hidden surveillance and explosive devices Inspired by the way dolphins hunt using bubble nets, scientists at the University of Southampton, in collaboration with University College London and Cobham Technical Services, have developed a new ... more		MEADS Tracks Tactical Ballistic Missile for First Time In preparation for an upcoming dual-intercept test later this year, a Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) Multifunction Fire Control Radar (MFCR) successfully acquired and tracked a Lance tac ... more		Greenland is helpful, but not vital, for US missile defense European military mission in Greenland as US aim 'remains intact' Amazon expands 'sovereign cloud' in Europe		Raytheon to continue modernizing Patriot fleet Raytheon has received $71.7 million in contracts from the U.S. Army to upgrade the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System with the modernized Radar Digital Processor (RDP) and Modern Man Station (MM ... more
				Iran holds talks with Russia to boost military cooperation The head of Russia's air force, General Viktor Bondarev, met his Iranian counterparts in Tehran to discuss boosting military cooperation between the countries, local media reported Monday. ... more		End of an era at US Space Command The 21st Space Wing closed the Air Force Space Surveillance System due to resource constraints caused by sequestration, marking the end of its 52 years of service to the Space Situational Awareness ... more

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Italy launches sea patrol as Sicily declares emergency Italian warships rescued 290 migrants in the Mediterranean on Tuesday and Sicily declared a state of emergency as Rome launched a huge patrol operation to scare off people-smugglers. ... more		US Navy Next Gen Air And Missile Defense Radar Contract Awarded Raytheon has been awarded a $385,742,176 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the engineering and modeling development phase design, development, integration, test and delivery of Air and Missile De ... more		An earthquake on a chip: New tech could make smartphones smaller, faster Engineered ligands deliver durable high efficiency perovskite solar cells Pendulum device taps power from ocean currents		Taliban anger over commander's 'house arrest' in Pakistan Pakistan on Wednesday denied a Taliban claim that it had failed to free former rebel commander Abdul Ghani Baradar, whose release was meant to boost Afghanistan's peace process. ... more
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