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Small Diameter Bomb II finds, hits moving target
Jul 23, 2012 (SPX)
Raytheon Company's GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB II) program achieved a major milestone when it successfully engaged and hit a moving target during a fli...
Raytheon BBN Technologies awarded DoD funding to develop a foreign-document translation system
Jul 18, 2012 (SPX)
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Raytheon BBN Technologies an additional $5.9 million in funding under the Multilingual Automat...
Six charged in Britain over faulty Iraq bomb detectors
Jul 12, 2012 (AFP)
British prosecutors have charged six men with fraud for selling bomb detectors widely panned as ineffective that were sold to countries including Iraq, official...
Boeing Introduces Intelligent Sensor Camera System for Defense and Security Customers
Jul 11, 2012 (SPX)
Boeing has introduced its Intelligent Sensor, a new camera system that provides defense and security customers with fully integrated video-processing capability...
Ex-US commander McChrystal calls for reviving draft
Jul 10, 2012 (AFP)
The former US commander in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, has urged that the draft be reinstated to spread the burden of fighting and to instill a sense of sh...
Boeing Completes Wind Tunnel Tests on Silent Eagle Conformal Weapons Bay
Jun 27, 2012 (SPX)
Boeing recently completed wind tunnel tests on the Silent Eagle Conformal Weapons Bay (CWB). The tests, conducted at the company's St. Louis facility, validated...
Taiwan, US to sign fighter radar contract: report
Jun 25, 2012 (AFP)
Taiwan and the United States are expected to sign a military contract next month as part of the $5.8 billion arms sales that had irked rival China, media report...
Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Joint Threat Emitter for NAS Whidbey Island
Jun 22, 2012 (SPX)
Northrop Grumman reports the successful demonstration of the company's Joint Threat Emitter (JTE) in an electronic warfare (EW) range concept test that took pla...
Germany orders new soldier systems
Jun 21, 2012 (UPI)
The Rheinmetall Group is supplying the German army with state-of-the-art soldier systems, initially for troops deploying to Afghanistan. The value of the contra...
Portuguese armor vehicle to test in Brazil
Jun 20, 2012 (UPI)
Portuguese manufacturer Pinhol plans to test its new four-wheel explosive-resistant armored vehicle in Brazil with a view to developing a long-term production a...
Saudis 'boost German tank buy to 600-800'
Jun 19, 2012 (UPI)
Saudi Arabia is reported to be seeking 600-800 Leopard 2A7+ main battle tanks made by Germany's Krauss-Maffei Wegmann worth around $12.6 billion, rather than th...
Air Force spy planes facing postwar cut
Jun 19, 2012 (UPI)
The U.S. Air Force plans to cut back on the number of Hawker Beechcraft's MC-12 spy planes it wants to operate after the drawdown from Afghanistan and Iraq, off...
Japan buys another Hyrdoid AUV system
Jun 18, 2012 (UPI)
Japan's Ministry of Defense has bought another Hydroid Remus autonomous underwater vehicle system for mine countermeasure operations. The purchase of the Remus ...
German-Saudi tank deal twice as big as planned: report
Jun 17, 2012 (AFP)
Saudi Arabia wants to buy 600-800 Leopard battle tanks from Germany, more than twice as many as originally envisaged, the Sunday newspaper Bild am Sonntag repor...
Greece okays Dutch tank ordnance order despite debt crisis
Jun 15, 2012 (AFP)
Greece, mired in debt, said Friday it had ordered tank ordnance from The Netherlands worth 13.5 million euros, two days before a historic election that could de...
NTU researchers study little mighty creature for scientific breakthrough
Jun 14, 2012 (SPX)
A scientist from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) may be onto an ocean of discovery because of his research into a little sea creature called the mantis s...
Corruption causes Cold War arms to still kill in Bulgaria
Jun 13, 2012 (AFP)
Twenty years after the disbanding of the communist Warsaw Pact alliance, its weapons still kill in Bulgaria as lack of money and suspected corruption hinder the...
US Marines fire Excalibur from record range in Afghanistan
Jun 13, 2012 (SPX)
The U.S. Marine Corps successfully fired two Raytheon Excalibur 155mm precision-guided artillery projectiles from a range of 36 kilometers (22.3 statute miles) ...
Canada to spend $600 million on new armor
Jun 11, 2012 (UPI)
Canada is set to spend more than $600 million on upgrades to its armored and heavy vehicle fleets in response to recent engagement in Afghanistan but the delive...
European country orders targeting system
Jun 08, 2012 (UPI)
European country orders targeting system Lod, Israel (UPI) Jun 8, 2012 - An unidentified Western European country has ordered a ground observation and target ac...
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