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January 25, 2015

Raytheon's enhanced AESA radar a boon for F/A-18 aircraft
El Segundo, Calif. (UPI) Jan 13, 2015
Raytheon reports a flight test of its APG-79(V)X AESA radar has validated its enhancement of the capabilities of the U.S. Navy's F/A-18C/D aircraft. Active electronically scanned array radar utilizes small solid-state transmit and receive modules that scatter their signal emissions across a band of frequencies, making their source difficult to detect. Raytheon has delivered some 500 AESA tactical radars to the U.S. military from its product portfolio, including APG-79s, the APG-63(V)3 a ... read more

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Uruguay receives mobile border surveillance system Turkish defense company Aselsan A.S. reports it has completed a contract to equip the Uruguayan Army with a mobile surveillance radar system. ... more		NASA launching spacecraft with 19 foot lasso NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive, SMAP, will measure moisture in the Earth's soil, which will help farmers combat the effects of drought. ... more		Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes, More Common Than Previously Thought? by Dr. Tony Phillips Each day, thunderstorms around the world produce about a thousand quick bursts of gamma rays, some of the highest-energy light naturally found on Earth. By merging records of e ... more
				Technology Innovations Spin NASA's SMAP into Space It's active. It's passive. And it's got a big, spinning lasso. Scheduled for launch on Jan. 29, 2015, NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) instrument will measure the moisture lodged in Earth' ... more		Radar testing for JLENS aerostat The first of two radar blimps to protect the nation's capital from cruise missiles is being readied for operational transfer to a U.S. Army air defense unit. ... more

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Second ballistic missile defense radar deployed in Japan A second radar system for the detection of ballistic missiles is being deployed in Japan by the U.S. Department of Defense and Japan's Ministry of Defense. ... more		US delivers second radar defense system to Japan The United States has sent a second missile defense radar system to Japan, the Pentagon said Friday. ... more		'Sign of life': defence boom lifts German factory orders MDA Space wins role in US SHIELD missile defense program Starfighters completes supersonic tests for GE Aerospace ramjet program		Russian Space Agency Pushes Back Earth Imaging Satellite Launch to Friday The launch of Russia's Strela carrier rocket with a Kondor-E radar imaging satellite from the Baikonur cosmodrome has been postponed until Friday due to technical reasons, the country's space agency ... more
				Strela Rocket With Kondor-E Satellite Blasts Off From Baikonur Russia's Strela carrier rocket blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome with a Kondor-E radar imaging satellite, the country's space agency Roscosmos told RIA Novosti Friday. On Thursday, the ... more		Danish radars for new British offshore patrol boats Three new River-class offshore patrol vessels of Britain's Royal Navy are to operate 2D naval and air surveillance radars from Terma of Denmark. ... more

Army installs ground-based sense-and-avoid system for drones A system to support unmanned aerial systems in flying safely from airfields to restricted areas for training and testing has been deployed by the U.S. Army. ... more		Companies partner counter-IED technologies Humanistic Robotics Inc. and Critical Solutions International have teamed to offer Husky road clearance vehicles with counter-land mine and counter-IED rollers. ... more		Dancing isn't enough: industry pushes for practical robots AI gobbling up memory chips essential to gadget makers From sci-fi to sidewalk: exoskeletons go mainstream		Dutch Navy LPD getting new radar system An amphibious warfare ship of the Royal Netherlands Navy, HNLMS Rotterdam, is to be outfitted with S-band active electronically scanned array radar from Thales. ... more
Fermi brings deeper focus to thunderstorm gamma-rays Each day, thunderstorms around the world produce about a thousand quick bursts of gamma rays, some of the highest-energy light naturally found on Earth. By merging records of events seen by NASA's F ... more		Exelis providing radar signal simulators to Air Force A $6.3 million U.S. Air Force task order has been given to Exelis for the supply of equipment to test radar warning receivers on aircraft. ... more		Mobile radio passive radar makes harbors safer Many coastal areas and harbors go almost unprotected against acts of terror. Soon a new sensor system relying on signal echoes from cell towers can quickly detect even the smallest of attack boats. ... more		French military orders Ground Master air defense radar systems The French military has ordered more than a dozen air defense radars from ThalesRaytheonSystems for coupling with NATO's Air Command and Control System. ... more

	Dutch launch 'intelligent bicycle' that warns of danger The Netherlands on Monday launched its first-ever "intelligent bicycle", fitted with an array of electronic devices to help bring down the high accident rate among elderly cyclists in the bicycle-mad country. ... more		BAE Systems to produce prototype counter-radar system A prototype system for detecting and countering emerging radar threats from air defense systems is to be produced by BAE Systems. ... more

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Rapiscan adds CounterBomber distance threat detector to portfolio		Raytheon building air and missile defense center for Qatar		Fogo volcano on Sentinel's radar		Seismo-Ionospheric effects of 'Chelyabinsk' Meteorite revealed		U.S. supplies Ukraine with counter-mortar radar systems
US delivers anti-mortar radars to Ukraine: Pentagon		Sense and Avoid system for UAVs in civilian airspace closer to reality		Swedish military gets upgraded radar facilityw/lll		Eurofighter unveils 1.0-billion-euro radar upgrade		Raytheon touts its Agile software development process

Cassini probe measures sea depth on Saturn's moon Titan

Canada's LAV III vehicle upgrade to include enhanced surveillance suite

Singapore to deploy massive surveillance balloon

Britain modernizing military air traffic management system

SM-6 interceptors down targets using remote targeting data

Thales wins 1.9bn-euro bid for British military air traffic

Navantia Australia conducts risk-reduction study on frigates

Littoral Combat Ship outfitted with Airbus DS radar

NASA Team Proposes to Use Laser to Track Orbital Debris

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