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July 08, 2016

Raytheon's air and missile defense radar to be tested
Tewksbury, Mass. (UPI) Jul 7, 2016
Raytheon has delivered the first AN/SPY-6(V) air and missile defense radar early to the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii, the company announced Thursday. The array is now being installed in preparation for first radar light-off this month, Raytheon said in a statement, and is ready for live target tracking. SPY-6(V) is the Navy's next-generation integrated air and ballistic missile defense radar. The system's engineering and manufacturing development phase is n ... read more

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State Dept. approves $300 million parts sale to Israel The U.S. State Department has approved a proposed $300 million sale of excess SH-60F Sea Hawk helicopter equipment and support to Israel. ... more		Chinese, Japanese warplanes in close encounter Beijing and Tokyo were at loggerheads Tuesday over accusations Japanese warplanes locked their fire control radar onto Chinese aircraft, as state-run Chinese media said the country needed to be ready for "military confrontation" elsewhere. ... more		Teaching drones about the birds and the bees Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) of the future will be able to visually coordinate their flight and navigation just like birds and flying insects do, without needing human input, radar or even GPS sa ... more
				Lockheed's Q-53 shows drone tracking capability Lockheed Martin's AN/TPQ-53 counterfire radar recently demonstrated its ability to identify and track drones and pass that information to a command and control node, a key capability as battle spaces increasingly become crowded with new air threats, the company announced Monday. ... more		More wind power added to French grid A French energy company said Friday it commissioned one of the most powerful wind farms of its kind in the country, equipped with "stealth" technology. ... more

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N.Korean missile reached 1,000 kilometre-altitude: Japan One of two powerful medium-range missiles launched by North Korea on Wednesday reached an altitude of 1,000 kilometres (620 miles), Japan's defence ministry said, with analysts saying that accomplishment is sufficient to label it a "success". ... more		Below the Radar: Russia's S-400, S-500 Set to Become Invisible to Enemies In an age when stealth is the game-changing capability everyone aspires to achieve, Russia's top-of-the-line air defense systems, the S-400 and the S-500, will receive an upgrade that will allow the ... more		Underappreciated threat of nanoplastic pollution revealed in Atlantic Ocean study Deadly China-Nepal flood caused by glacial lake: experts New UK weather records being set 'very frequently': report		Serco gets $38 million missile radar contract Serco has been awarded a $38 million U.S. Army contract to upgrade the High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse, or HEMP, protection portion of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System radar, the company announced Friday. ... more
				Giant sinkholes near West Texas oil patch towns are growing Residents of Wink and neighboring Kermit have grown accustomed to the two giant sinkholes that sit between their small West Texas towns. But now radar images taken of the sinkholes by an orbiting sp ... more		Thales unveils Ground Master 60 mobile radar Thales Group will showcase its new Ground Master 60 multi-mission radar this week at the Eurosatory defense expo, the company announced Monday. ... more

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Danish parliament approves F-35 buy Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II has been approved for acquisition by the Danish parliament to replace the country's F-16 aircraft, the Ministry of Defense reports. ... more		Interest in IAI's Drone Guard counter-drone system grows Israel Aerospace Industries reports increasing customer demand for its new unmanned aerial vehicle detection and disruption system, Drone Guard. ... more		Iraq's Kurdistan enjoys all-day state electricity Nvidia's Huang says China's open-source AI a 'catalyst for progress' Malaysia clamps down on export, transit of US-made AI chips		Mapping that sinking feeling For a low-lying, densely populated country like the Netherlands, monitoring subsidence is critical. Until recently, tiny displacements in the ground beneath our feet couldn't be mapped nationally bu ... more
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	BAE gets U.S. Air Force radar contract BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services was awarded a $49.6 million contract modification for the U.S. Air Force's Solid State Phased Array Radar Systems. ... more		NASA Radar Finds Ice Age Record in Mars' Polar Cap Scientists using radar data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found a record of the most recent Martian ice age recorded in the planet's north polar ice cap. The new results agree w ... more

Underappreciated threat of nanoplastic pollution revealed in Atlantic Ocean study

Deadly China-Nepal flood caused by glacial lake: experts

New UK weather records being set 'very frequently': report

FLIR Systems launches ground surveillance products		Study Helps Explain Sea Ice Differences at Earth's Poles		Idea That US's New Destroyer is 'Invisible' is a 'Fairy Tale for Fools'		New Study Maps Rate of New Orleans Sinking		NATO may take on new air surveillance role in IS fight
Lockheed, Indra conduct test of new radar system		Paramount announces armed ISR aircraft		Cobham announces new GaN-based solid state technology		Radar integration effort starts to improve ISR capabilities		Iran equipped with Russian missile system: defence minister

Indonesia frees vessel captured by suspected pirates: navy

Leonardo-Finmeccanica develops new E-scan radar

Russian jets regularly violate Estonian airspace

LONGBOW fire control radar for India's Apache helos

Airbus Defence and Space signs contract to build Biomass

Sentinel-1B delivers

Soyuz demonstrates Arianespace mission flexibility

Companies named for Navy's open RF program

Sentinel-1B launched to complete radar pair

Teams ready for Sentinel-1B launch

Hanwha Thales preferred bidder for KF-X radar contract

Sentinel-1B will complete European Radar Vision initiative

Europe to launch satellites for Earth, Einstein

Training beyond the expected

Australia's sixth ANZAC-class frigate modernized

Rafael rolls out 'Drone Dome' anti-drone system

N. Korea missile launch fails on founder's birthday

Fewer Russian jets on ground in Syria but Moscow still key to fighting

Twiss interferometry offers new approach for remote sensing

GenDyn completes Space Fence radar array structure

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