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Small Diameter Bomb II completes live-fire testing
Feb 17, 2015 (UPI)
Raytheon's Small Diameter Bomb II has completed all live-fire tests for Milestone C certification and low-rate initial production. The tests were conducted by R...
Scout armored vehicles to feature Kongsberg remote weapons stations
Feb 16, 2015 (UPI)
A remote weapon station developed by a team from Kongsberg Defense and General Dynamics UK is entering serial production for Scout SV platform variants. The Pro...
Milestone C status for Lockheed Martin vehicle sensor system
Feb 12, 2015 (UPI)
A Lockheed Martin surveillance and explosive hazard detection sensor system for Army vehicles is set to become standard equipment for MRAPs. More than 1,000 of ...
Israel Aerospace Industries touts new electro-optical payload
Feb 11, 2015 (UPI)
An electronics payload that incorporates as many as seven sensors has completed flight tests on manned and unmanned aircraft. Israel Aerospace Industries descri...
DARPA eyes technologies for dismounted soldiers
Feb 11, 2015 (UPI)
The U.S. military has a new program to develop lightweight integrated technology for dismounted soldiers. The program is called Squad X Core Technologies and bu...
Oshkosh makes bid for Humvee replacement
Feb 11, 2015 (UPI)
Oshkosh Defense has submitted its proposal to thee Department of Defense for production of a vehicle to replace the Humvee utility vehicle. The proposal for low...
African countries order Israeli-made armored vehicles
Feb 08, 2015 (UPI)
Two unidentified countries in Africa ordered more light armored vehicles for their military forces from Israel Aerospace Industries. IAI, which did not report t...
USAF to Upgrade B-52 Strategic Bombers
Feb 06, 2015 (Sputnik)
The US Air Force awarded the Boeing Company a contract to upgrade the aging communications and other technology systems on ten of its B-52 long-range strategic ...
Czech company to produce GDELS-Steyr Pandur II vehicles
Feb 04, 2015 (UPI)
Pandur II 8x8 armored vehicles by GDELS-Steyr GmbH are to be marketed in the Czech Republic, East Europe and Asia by Excalibur Army spol. s r.o. General Dynamic...
GE providing computer subsystems for British armored vehicles
Feb 04, 2015 (UPI)
Britain's new SCOUT Specialist Vehicles are to be outfitted with scalable, open architecture computer subsystems from GE's Intelligent Platforms business. The e...
Taiwan orders night vision equipment
Feb 03, 2015 (UPI)
The government of Taiwan has contracted Exelis and partner U&U Engineering to provide night vision tubes for delivery before July. The contract, which was compe...
DTRA contract for Cubic Corporation business unit
Jan 30, 2015 (UPI)
The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency is to receive exercise training support services from a business unit of the Cubic Corporation. The training exercises ...
Saab, IBD to cooperate on military vehicle protection
Jan 30, 2015 (UPI)
Saab of Sweden reports it has signed an agreement with IBD Deisenroth Engineering of Germany to cooperate in the development of vehicle survivability systems. T...
U.S. firms plan to make RPG-7s
Jan 29, 2015 (UPI)
Two U.S. companies plan to develop and manufacture RPG-7 rockets locally and are looking at the first quarter of next year for the start of production. AirTroni...
Army opens THAAD training school
Jan 26, 2015 (UPI)
The U.S. Army reports that it is now conducting its own training of soldiers in the use of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system. The training by Army ...
BAE Systems gets support contract for British Army vehicles
Jan 26, 2015 (UPI)
The British Army's armored track vehicle fleet is to receive support services from BAE Systems under a five-year, $75 million contract. The award, which combine...
DRS touts new laser targeting gimbal
Jan 23, 2015 (UPI)
A new laser designating gimbal from DRS Technologies Inc successfully performed multiple targeting exercises aboard a U.S. Special Operations Command aircraft. ...
Prototype weapons launcher fitted onto B-52 bomber
Jan 23, 2015 (UPI)
A prototype weapons bay launcher that improves weapons capacity has been installed by Boeing and the U.S. Air Force on a B-52 bomber. The new launcher enables t...
BAE Systems announces new thermal weapon sight
Jan 20, 2015 (UPI)
A smaller and lighter thermal weapon sight with improved image quality has been introduced by BAE Systems. The Universal Thermal Clip-On version XII with 12-mic...
Minimizing Uncertainty in Designing Complex Military Systems
Jan 14, 2015 (SPX)
Uncertainty is sometimes unavoidable. But in the world of scientific computing and engineering, at least, what's worse than uncertainty is being uncertain about...
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